School Board of Palm Beach County

RULE TITLE: Coordinated Planning.

RULE NUMBER: Policy 7.131.

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The minor revisions in this Policy and three others in Chapter 7 are needed to implement amendments to the Interlocal Agreement for Concurrency, on which the required number of municipalities have recently signed off.

SUMMARY: Statutory citations are updated; adds a provision regarding use of the cohort survivor method of improving enrollment projection methodologies; changes the date from February 25, 2002 to November 1 of each year; to develop student enrollment projections; refers to the first FTE student count, rather than the first count of the second semester; changes the date from April 1 to November 1 for publication of updated enrollment and capacity data; deletes the October 15 date for coordinating site planning for proposed new schools with local governments; deletes references to capacity based on the Florida Inventory of School Houses.

SPECIFIC RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: §§ 1001.32(2); 1001.41(2), 1001.42(22); 1001.43(4), (5), Fla. Stat.

LAWS IMPLEMENTED: §§ 163.3161; 163.3164; 163.3177; 1001.32(2); 1001.41(6); 1001.42(4); 1013.33, Fla. Stat.

SUMMARY OF STATEMENT OF ESTIMATED REGULATORY COST (OPTIONAL, IF ONE HAS BEEN PREPARED): None. Any person who wishes to provide information regarding a statement of estimated regulatory costs, or to provide a proposal for a lower cost regulatory alternative, must do so in writing within 21 days of the publication of this Notice.

TEXT OF PROPOSED RULE: Is available from the District's web site at www.SchoolBoardPolicies.com/revisions.htm.

CONTACT PERSON: Kris Garrison or Angela Usher, 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33406.

PERSONS ORIGINATING THE PROPOSED RULE: Kris Garrison and Angela Usher.

SUPERVISOR OR PERSON WHO APPROVED THE PROPOSED RULE: Dr. Art Johnson.

DATE PROPOSED RULE WAS APPROVED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD: July 28, 2003.

PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT NOTICE WAS PUBLISHED: July 14, 2003, in The Palm Beach Post.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE: Adoption of the proposed Policy is anticipated to be considered at the School Board's Special Meeting on Policies on September 8, 2003, anticipated to begin at 2:00 p.m., in the Board Chambers at 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, Fla. The meeting is open to the public.