Approve the Tentative 2016-2020 Facilities Five Year Work Plan

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 1^st 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 our 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 29, 2015, 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 $607,577,725 in funded maintenance and major repair/construction projects.  An additional $110,418,540 in new student capacity construction projects is identified.  Funding for these projects will be derived from a combination of impact fee collections and millage from the prior year.  New student capacity projects include: the completion of the new Lamb Elementary; a classroom addition at Lennard High School; additions to Alonso, Newsome, and East Bay High Schools; new classroom construction for the Tinker and Sulphur Springs Elementary conversions to K-8 Schools; a new Elementary and K-8 (partially funded) in south Hillsborough County.  All of the proposed renovation and remodeling projects total $328,900,009 and are unfunded.