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4. CONSIDERATION OF DRAFT PUBLIC SCHOOL INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT AND DRAFT PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES ELEMENT Director Keating, through a PowerPoint presentation (copy on file), explained how school concurrency is applied within Indian River County. He stated that the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) had established a deadline of March 1, 2008, for school concurrency to be implemented and that all local governments within the County (except the town of Orchid because of it's size and lack of school children) would be required to participate. Director Keating announced that Indian River County was fortunate enough to have been chosen by DCA to be a pilot community for school concurrency. The County also was given funds to hire a consultant to help prepare four draft documents (copies on file). He said the draft documents had been accepted by DCA, but the documents continue to be a "work in progress" and are not ready to be finalized. This will become a model document that other counties would be using to develop their school concurrency programs. Director Keating spoke about the school concurrency process and listed its three major components: (1) the Interlocal Agreement (ILA), (2) the Comprehensive Plan Updates and Additions, and (3) the Implementation Ordinance. He focused on the first two items and said the third would be discussed at a later date. Director Keating spoke about the current Interlocal Agreement, and indicated that the new "draft" Interlocal Agreement would replace the existing Agreement. He identified the responsibilities of the Local Governments and the School Board, stressing that the most important requirement in the ILA for Local Government is that the agreement would commit them to withhold the issuance of development orders (unless the school district verified that February 15, 2007 3 JOINT PUBLIC SCHOOL CONCURRENCY WORKSHOP MEETING