Title
Amend the Interlocal Agreement for Public School Facility Planning (B)
Amended Interlocal Agreement for Public School Facility Planning between the School Board of Alachua County and the local governments in Alachua County.
Explanation
The City, School Board, County and other local governments within Alachua County have an Interlocal Agreement for Public School Facility Planning as required by Florida Statutes and the City’s Comprehensive Plan. Amendments to the Interlocal Agreement (ILA) are needed to delete reference to the Boundary Adjustment Act (stricken by the Florida Legislature on February 29, 2016 by Chapter Law 2015-199), and to amend the Elementary School Concurrency Service Areas Map in order to reduce the number of elementary school concurrency service areas from nine to three.
School Concurrency Service Areas were adopted in 2008 for the purpose of managing school concurrency and they remain in effect. Five of the nine Elementary School Concurrency Service Areas (CSAs) have become deficient and are projected to remain so during the School District’s 10-year planning period. These Elementary School CSAs are located in the western parts of our county where substantial residential growth is occurring. Based on School Board analysis, revisions to the Elementary School CSAs are needed to provide for a more efficient framework for the management of elementary school concurrency.
The School Board gave initial approval to reduce the number of Elementary School CSAs on January 17, 2017. The proposal was presented as required by the Interlocal Agreement to the Elected Officials on January 19, 2017. On April 18, 2017, the School Board voted to approve these amendments to the Interlocal Agreement (ILA). In a letter dated May 26, 2017 that was sent to the various local governments in our countywide school district, the Interim Superintendent requested that each local government take action on the proposed amendment to the amended IL...
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