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Action Item
DATE: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
TO: School Board Members
FROM: MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent
SUBJECT / RECOMMENDATIONS
Approve the Scheduling and Advertising of a Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of Revised Single Member School Board Voting Districts
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Florida Law (2006-333) requires that the single member residence areas shall be reapportioned by the district school board by resolution, in consultation with the county supervisor of elections, in the odd-numbered years immediately following each decennial census in accordance with Section 1001.36(2) Florida Statutes.  The office of the Supervisor of Elections and the Planning Commission staff prepared alternative member district maps to equalize the population and comply with the requirements of the Federal Voting Rights Acts.  These maps have been brought to high schools in each of the five member districts to make them available for public inspection, review, and comment. Meetings with other smaller groups, as requested, have also been held.

The School Board will hold a workshop on September 13, 2011, and at that time will consider the maps prepared by the Supervisor of Elections and Planning Commission staff along with all public comments and recommendations that have been received to date.  A public hearing will be held on October 4, 2011, at 5:00 p.m. to consider and adopt the revised member districts. 

The public hearing will be advertised in accordance with the Florida Statutes.  The advertisement will state that the Board will consider and adopt revised member districts at the public hearing and will provide that options considered by the Board will be available for public inspection prior to the public hearing at the Raymond O. Shelton School Administrative Center, 901 East Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa, Florida 33602.  

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
All Strategic Objectives
FINANCIAL IMPACT (Budgeted:  Yes)
The cost of advertising the public hearing is expected to be less than $2000.
EVALUATION
SUBMITTED BY: 
Lorraine Duffy Suarez   Kenneth R. Otero
General Manager, Growth Mgmt. & Planning
(813) 272-4685
  Deputy Superintendent
(813) 272-4101
    A 8.02
Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida) * Mtg.#20110906_471 (Board Meeting followed by Public Hearing) * Section A Item# 8.02