Description of Proposed Modification:

• This action modifies the opening dates of these three schools, but does not modify the project budgets. 

Reason for Modification:

• This change is being proposed to allow the District to save $4 million on the cost of a temporary holding school.
• The current plan is to build a holding school on the campus of D.D. Eisenhower ES and move each of these three (3) schools into the holding school, one at a time, while we rebuild each respective school.  The cost of the temporary holding school is approximately $4 million.  The temporary holding school would be constructed using modulars and concreteables with covered walkways and the necessary site work.
• This new proposal is to construct the new D.D. Eisenhower ES, move the old school over to the new school and then use the existing D.D. Eisenhower ES as a holding school for these three (3) schools thus saving the cost of the holding school.  There may be some modest costs for preparing the existing D.D. Eisenhower ES to be used as a holding school, but that will be far less than $4 million needed for the temporary holding school.
• This option was considered previously, but we had no way to fund the construction of the new D.D. Eisenhower ES.  We solved this problem by shifting the funding for each of the projects as indicated in the table below.
• Note that the opening dates for Palm Beach Gardens ES and North Palm Beach ES simply go back to their original opening dates.  The opening date for Northboro ES gets moved back one year from the original opening date.  The opening date for D.D. Eisenhower ES gets moved up from 2011 to 2007.
• D.D. Eisenhower ES is not included on the list from the referendum resolution because it was not planned for the five-year planning period (FY 2005 – FY 2009), which was the basis of the referendum. 
• In the 2003 ranking of schools to be modernized D.D. Eisenhower was ranked 2^nd behind C.O. Taylor/Kirklane ES, which is also being moved up in the modernization schedule.  Both D.D. Eisenhower ES and C.O. Taylor/Kirklane ES were built with the “open classroom” concept and both schools received damage during the last two hurricane seasons.
• The principals of the four (4) schools have been consulted and have no objections to this proposal although they have not had the chance to fully discuss this with their parents, staffs and School Advisory Councils. 

*Northboro ES was ranked higher than North Palm Beach ES in the 1999 rankings of schools to be modernized.