Approve the Tentative 2019/2020 Facilities Five Year Work Plan (Operations Division)

Florida Statute requires each school district to develop and approve a district five-year capital outlay work plan.  The plan must be submitted to the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) annually.  The plan must include a schedule of all major repairs, renovations, new planned construction projects, class size information, and the use of portable classrooms in the school district.  The district must also provide projected capital outlay revenues for the five year period.  The Capital Outlay Full Time Equivalent (COFTE) enrollment projections are provided by FDOE based upon cohort projections from the annual live birth rates within the county.

 

As required by the interlocal agreements with the local governments, after the tentative work plan is approved by the Board, the work plan is reviewed and discussed with other public agencies including Hillsborough County, the Planning Commission, and the cities of Tampa, Plant City, and Temple Terrace.  These reviewing entities have 45 days to provide comments to the district on the tentative plan.  As appropriate, these recommendations are included in a revised plan that will come to the Board for final approval at the October 15, 2019, School Board meeting, and then will be transmitted to the FDOE for review.  The plan can be changed by Board action at a noticed meeting at which the public has an opportunity to comment.

The Plan identifies $764,581,707 in funded maintenance and major repair/construction projects.  An additional $179,098,011 in new student capacity construction projects is identified.  Funding for new capacity projects will be derived from impact fee collections and include: classroom additions at Robinson and Spoto High Schools; a new classroom addition at Wimauma Elementary School; a new High School “TTT”; two new Elementary Schools “D” and “E”; a Middle School to K-8 School conversion in South Tampa; a new Middle School “UU”; and a partially funded new High School “UUU”.  The plan includes proportionate share mitigation to partially fund a Middle School Addition at High School “TTT”.  Debt, buses and other capital expenditures total $858,158,817 for a total five year plan amount of $1,801,838,535.