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) prior to October 1st of each year.  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 the 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 September 20, 2016, 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.                    (REVISED ATTACHMENT) 

The Plan identifies $198,973,422 in funded maintenance and major repair/construction projects.  An additional $87,900,992 in new student capacity construction projects is identified.  Funding for new capacity projects will be derived from impact fee collections and include: the new Elementary “D”; a classroom addition at Robinson High School; the new Elementary “E”; and partial funding for a new high school.  Debt, buses and other capital expenditures total $509,308,299 for a total five year plan amount of $796,182,713.  All of the proposed renovation and remodeling projects total $418,153,120 and are unfunded.