Approve the 2016-2020 Five Year Facilities 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 and new construction projects planned and include information about class size and the use of portable classrooms in the school district. The capital outlay revenues of the district must also be projected. The Capital Outlay Full Time Equivalent (COFTE) 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 was approved by the Board on July 28, 2015, the work plan was reviewed and discussed with other public agencies, including Hillsborough County, the Planning Commission and the cities of Tampa, Plant City and Temple Terrace. The plan was presented to the Planning Commission for a finding of consistency with the comprehensive plan. Comments received from the reviewing agencies have been attached and are found following the plan document (pages 49-66).

The attached work plan is presented in the Department of Education format and has been updated from the tentative plan to reflect the most current information available. Projects shown on the tentative plan have changed to reflect the additional $3,496,051 in Public Education Capital Outlay (PECO) Funds allocated after the completion of the tentative plan.  

As a quick reference, attached (pages 42-48) is a listing showing the individual projects and revenues included in the work plan.

The Plan identifies $183,615,018 in funded maintenance and major repair projects and an additional $110,418,540 in new construction. Funding for these projects will be derived from a combination of impact fee collections ($101,973,875 generated from impact fees) and millage from the prior year.  New student capacity projects include: the completion of the new Lamb Elementary; classroom additions at Lennard, Alonso, Newsome, and East Bay High Schools; new classroom construction for the Tinker and Sulphur Springs conversions to K-8 Schools; a new Elementary and K-8 (partially funded) both in south Hillsborough County. There are no renovation and remodeling projects funded and renovation and remodeling projects totaling $328,900,010 are unfunded.