School Board of Palm Beach County

RULE TITLE: Coordinated Planning.

RULE NUMBER: Policy 7.131.

SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Minor revisions to implement amendments to the Interlocal Agreement for Concurrency.

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. 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.

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

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT of the Proposed Policy Development may promptly be obtained without cost from the District's web site at www.SchoolBoardPolicies.com/revisions.htm.

PUBLIC HEARING: It is anticipated that this rule development will be considered at the School Board's Special Meeting on Policies on July 28, 2003, anticipated to be at 2:30 p.m., in the Board Chambers at 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, Fla. The meeting is open to the public.