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capacity would be available in the school system) to accommodate development projects. He reported that the most important requirement for the School Board would be to review all residential development orders, comprehensive plan amendments and re -zonings, then make decisions on the availability of school capacity. Another component in the ILA was a procedure for how school concurrency would work. Director Keating explained how applications for residential projects (which are not exempt) would be submitted to the County or appropriate municipality, and local government would make a determination, if it was complete, then it would be submitted to the School Board. New residential projects would have to comply with the criteria. Once the School District receives the application, staff would calculate the number of new students generated, apply those students to a school service attendance boundary, determine if there was capacity within the school service area, then issue a determination letter to inform local government if there is a local capacity and inform them if they could approve the project. Then the standard process would kick -in. Director Keating explained how the proposed ILA would use school service boundaries or attendance zones as the concurrency service areas. The last component of the ILA was "indemnification". Director Keating asked that this item be reviewed closely, because it stated that the School Board would "hold harmless, indemnify, and defend local governments from claims arising from the agreement". He summarized by saying that a big concern with school concurrency was that local governments had the approval or denial authority for development projects, but the school district would be making the decision as to whether there is capacity. Therefore, the school district is going to be dictating if the local government gives approvals or denials of a project. February 15, 2007 4 JOINT PUBLIC SCHOOL CONCURRENCY WORKSHOP MEETING