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Final Student Device Collection: May 26th
Rezoning Listening Sessions, Round 2
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New Principal Named for OKES
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Health Literacy Grant
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Flagler Schools Ends COVID-19 Dashboard
New Student School Board Members Take Seats
Review of Adopted Math Instructional Materials
STEM Academy Applications
2022 Spelling Bee Champion Crowned
Free and Reduced Price Meal Applications
Sunshine State Scholars Named for 2022
Top Administrators Named
A Season of Giving
Save the Date: Free Student Athletic Screenings
District Rezoning
BTMS Custodian is a Rock Star
2022 Teacher and Employee of the Year Named
Flagler Schools Instructional Continuity Plan
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The School Planning Department oversees the planning and design process for new District schools. The department monitors development approval and the pace of new residential construction, to ensure that educational impacts are properly mitigated. The responsibilities of the department include:
Prepare five-year work plan
Prepare district five-year survey
Site analysis for new construction
Florida Inventory of School House (FISH) annual validations
Coordinate concurrency with local governments and developers
School Concurrency Planning
School Concurrency is the coordinated planning for future growth to ensure that school capacity is available at the time of impact of residential development. Flagler County has seen significant residential growth over the past several years and with it increased enrollment. This growth is expected to continue in the future, and it is imperative that we plan for it now.
Flagler County Residential Growth
Approximately 600 new students countywide since 2018
Approximately
187 new students in Flagler Schools during the 2021–2022 school year
Approximately
8,400 new homes planned for Flagler County, with reserved space for
approximately
1,500 students
Approximately
4,500 new homes in the early planning process, resulting in
a
pproximately
800 additional students
Approximately
150 lots
for new homes are
permitted each month in Palm Coast
To plan for future growth, Flagler Schools is preparing for
District Rezoning
. There have been several plans presented to our School Board and the public. The proposed plan will help us even out populations at our two middle and high schools.
Our current
Five-Year Work Plan
contains plans for an addition at Matanzas High School, construction of a new middle school, and construction of a new high school. The preliminary cost for these three projects is $178 million.
Addition to Matanzas High School
$17,500,000
New Middle School
$68,000,000
New High School
$92,500,000
Funding Sources
If we are to build new schools or add to existing ones, school districts are limited as to how they can pay for this. There used to be eight separate funding sources for such projects, but since 2004, five of those sources are no longer available. These were used when we last saw such growth and accounted for almost half of the funding sources at the time. Additionally, unlike other local governments, school districts cannot set their own property tax rates. That is done by the state legislature. Other than taking out loans or bonds, our primary source of money to build a new school is through School Impact Fees.
School Impact Fees
School impact fees are one-time charges assessed on a new home to help pay for new or expanded public school facilities that will directly address the increased demand created by that development. This is money that cannot be collected if an existing home is sold or if it is commercial construction. The current fees were set in 2004. When a new, single-family home is built, $3,600 is collected for School Impact Fees.
Flagler Schools currently has $23 million in Impact Fees, which we use to pay off the debt services on our newest construction projects, Rymfire Elementary, Belle Terre Elementary, and Matanzas High Schools.
State lawmakers recently enacted a new law preventing local governments, including school boards, from increasing impact fees by more than 50% during any four-year period. However, if the government can prove “extraordinary circumstances,” that 50% threshold can be excluded. Flagler Schools has not raised impact fees in 16 years. The district commissioned an independent
Impact Fee Study
, which was completed in 2021. That study found the School Impact Fee should be increased to $7,175. Two school board meetings were convened in which the case for “extraordinary circumstances” was laid out, and which board members agreed that those circumstances existed.
In order for the increase to take effect, Flagler Schools needs the Flagler Board of County Commissioners to agree and sign off on the proposal. The county collects the fees and then passes them on to the school district.
Alternative Solutions
If new impact fees are not adopted, the school district would need to look at other solutions to address student capacity challenges at our schools. Alternatives to new impact fees could include:
Additional portable buildings
Double sessions
Disassembling computer labs and innovative learning spaces to make more classroom space
None of the alternative solutions are ideal. We know one factor that makes Flagler County so appealing is our schools and the quality of education our children are given.
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