TO: Mayor and City Commission
FROM: Samuel A. May, City Manager
DATE: January 31, 2018
Title
RESOLUTION - APPROVING THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITY PLANNING.
BACKGROUND: The City of Margate has been in an interlocal agreement with the School Board of Broward County (SBBC), Broward County, and several Broward municipalities since 2003 in order to provide a voluntary school mitigation program to alleviate overcrowded public schools and create necessary classroom capacity.
In 2007, this agreement was amended to include a public school concurrency program. Public School Concurrency is a growth management tool to ensure that public school facilities are available to serve new development by the time that new development starts to place demand on infrastructure. The agreement required all new residential development to comply with development review criteria and established a level of service (LOS) standard for each SBBC public school to be 110% of permanent capacity of each school. Permanent capacity is calculated based on the number of seats available within a “brick and mortar” structure, portable classrooms are not counted for this level of service.
The Second Amended Interlocal Agreement for Public School Facility Planning was adopted in 2010 to modify the level of service standard from 110% of permanent capacity to 100% of gross capacity until the end of the 2018/19 school year. Gross capacity counts seats within portable classrooms in addition to traditional brick and mortar classrooms. The level of service standard would return to 110% permanent capacity starting in the 2019/20 school year.
The primary purpose of the Third Amended and Restated Interlocal Agreement for Public School Facility Planning (TRILA) that is before the City Commission tonight is to redefine the adopted level of service as the higher of 100% gross capacity or 110% permanent capacity. This change would allow portable classrooms to be counted in certain public schools and reduce the number of level of service deficiencies throughout the County.
Although this proposed level of service would allow portable classrooms to continue to count as capacity for the purpose of development review, the School Board includes a “Portable Transition Plan” in the District Educational Facilities Plan, which provides for the annual funding, assessment, and demolition schedule of portable classrooms. This plan identifies a total of 1,810 portables in the School Board’s countywide inventory. In the 2017/18 school year, a total of $716,600 in capital funds was allocated to remove 43 portables from the inventory and relocate 3 portables for re-use. To date, the School Board has demolished 237 portables.
The tables below identify the effect of the proposed level of service on schools currently serving Margate, projected from school years 2019/20 through 2021/22.
|
School |
Current agreement 110% permanent capacity Over/under enrollment 2019/20 |
Proposed amended agreement Higher of 110% permanent capacity or 100% gross capacity Over/under enrollment 2019/20 |
|
Atlantic West Elementary |
-113 |
-287 |
|
Margate Elementary |
-369 |
-369 |
|
Liberty Elementary |
-352 |
-352 |
|
Morrow Elementary |
-392 |
-392 |
|
Margate Middle |
-130 |
-130 |
|
Silver Lakes Middle |
-435 |
-435 |
|
Coconut Creek High |
-664 |
-1,210 |
|
Monarch High |
-8 |
-34 |
|
Coral Springs High |
-399 |
-415 |
|
School |
Current agreement 110% permanent capacity Over/under enrollment 2020/21 |
Proposed amended agreement Higher of 110% permanent capacity or 100% gross capacity Over/under enrollment 2020/21 |
|
Atlantic West Elementary |
-101 |
-276 |
|
Margate Elementary |
-357 |
-357 |
|
Liberty Elementary |
-346 |
-346 |
|
Morrow Elementary |
-383 |
-383 |
|
Margate Middle |
-111 |
-111 |
|
Silver Lakes Middle |
-423 |
-423 |
|
Coconut Creek High |
-615 |
-1,161 |
|
Monarch High |
-23 |
-49 |
|
Coral Springs High |
-419 |
-434 |
|
SchoolCurrent agreement 110% permanent capacity Over/under enrollment 2021/22Proposed amended agreement Higher of 110% permanent capacity or 100% gross capacity Over/under enrollment 2021/22 |
|
|
|
Atlantic West Elementary |
-90 |
-264 |
|
Margate Elementary |
-345 |
-345 |
|
Liberty Elementary |
-340 |
-340 |
|
Morrow Elementary |
-373 |
-373 |
|
Margate Middle |
-114 |
-114 |
|
Silver Lakes Middle |
-411 |
-411 |
|
Coconut Creek High |
-565 |
-1,111 |
|
Monarch High |
-39 |
-64 |
|
Coral Springs High |
-438 |
-454 |
Schools serving the City of Margate are all currently under enrolled, however, the proposed amendment would provide additional capacity at Atlantic West Elementary, Coconut Creek High, Monarch High, and Coral Springs High.
In order for the TRILA to become effective, it must be approved by the School Board, Broward County, and at least 75% of the municipalities which include at least 50% of the population in Broward County. The School Board, Broward County, and the cities of Coconut Creek, Cooper City, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Hallandale Beach, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, Lauderhill, Parkland, Pembroke Park, Pembroke Pines, Plantation, Southwest Ranches, and Weston have already adopted the TRILA.
RECOMMENDATION: N/A
FISCAL IMPACT: N/A
CONTACT PERSON: Reddy Chitepu, Acting Economic Development Director, DEES Director