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Home My WebLink About02/04/2004 INDEX TO MINUTES BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS JOINT MEETING OF FEBRUARY 4, 2004 WITH INDIAN RIVER COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD AT INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE MUELLER CAMPUS – RICHARDSON CENTER I.WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION ........................................................ 2 II.SCHOOL CONCURRENCY ....................................................................... 2 A)PLN ..................................................................................2 RESENTATION BY EO OBLE B)DQ .............................................................................................3 ISCUSSION UESTIONS III.COUNTYWIDE IMPACT FEES ................................................................ 4 )P............................................................................................................4 ARESENTATION B)D .................................................................................................................4 ISCUSSION February 4, 2004 1 February 4, 2004 SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS The Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida, met in Special Joint with the Indian River County School Board at the Richardson Center of Indian Session River Community College Mueller Campus, 6155 College Lane, Vero Beach, Florida, on Wednesday, February 4, 2004. Present were Caroline D. Ginn, Chairman; Arthur R. Neuberger, Vice Chairman; Commissioners Fran B. Adams; Thomas S. Lowther; and Kenneth R. Macht. Also present were Joseph Baird, Acting County Administrator; William G. Collins II, County Attorney; Kimberly Massung, Executive Aide to the Board; and Patricia Ridgely, Deputy Clerk. Present from the School Board were Chairman Kathryn A. Wilson, Vice Chairman Steven Mohler, R. Craig McGarvey, Herbert Bailey, and William Hughes. Present from City of Vero Beach were Mayor Sandra Bowden and Vice Mayor Tom White. Present from City of Sebastian were Mayor Walter Barnes, Vice Mayor Ray Coniglio, James Hill, Joe Barczyk, and Nathan McCollum. Present from Town of Indian River Shores were E. William Kenyon and Dr. David Becker. Present from City of Fellsmere was Deputy Mayor John McCants. All of the above were seated at a U-shaped table. Meeting was video taped by the School Board’s media group. Staff members present for the County were Community Development Director Robert Keating, Planning Director Stan Boling, Long-Range Planning Chief Sasan Rohani, Budget Manager Jason E. Brown, Public Works Director James Davis, and Project Manager Steve Blum. February 4, 2004 1 Staff members present from the School Board were Superintendent Tom Maher, Assistant Superintendent for Finance Linda Robertson, and Executive Assistant to the School Board Judy Stang. Staff members from various governments were in the audience including Sebastian’s City Manager Terrence Moore, Orchid’s Town Manager David Jakubiak, Indian River Shores’ Town Manager Robert Bradshaw, City of Vero Beach’s Assistant Planning Director Mark Satterlee, Sebastian’s City Clerk Sally Maio and Attorney Rich Stringer, and Fellsmere’s Attorney Warren Dill and Building Director Allen Duff. I. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION at 1:30 p.m. She called on Mrs. Wilson, Chairman Ginn called the meeting to order Mrs. Bowden, Mr. Barnes, Dr. Baker, and Mr. McCants to introduce their fellow elected officials and staff members. Next she introduced her fellow Commissioners and various staff members. She then introduced the presenter, Mr. Leo Noble, past chairman of the Economic Development Council of Palm Beach County, and listed his many other credentials and memberships. II. SCHOOL CONCURRENCY A) PLN RESENTATION BY EO OBLE Leo Noble had distributed a booklet of information to each of the elected officials. He explained that he was hired to bring about school concurrency by the Palm Beach County (PBC) Commission and School Board. He gave an overview on how it was accomplished there. He reviewed the documents required to comply with the Statutes in order to include school concurrency in the Comprehensive Plan. He gave an historical account of the process and enumerated the difficulties encountered in PBC where it took two years. He believed it should be easier and quicker in Indian River County because of fewer municipalities. He listed and explained February 4, 2004 2 the different ways (concurrency service areas, county-wide, or school attendance zones) to accomplish adding school concurrency and specified that in PBC they used concurrency service areas as their method. Angela Usher, Palm Beach County School District, spoke on level of service (LOS) and other technical issues. She explained their project was approved in January 2001; their Comp Plan was amended based on FISH (Florida Inventory of School Houses) capacity, and they used a LOS of 110% to be in place by August of 2004. In order to reach that LOS, they implemented a tiered or step-down LOS method to give them time to construct and add the new capacity. For them, concurrency has been made up of three major components: coordinated planning for which they came up with a 5-year capital plan, a regulatory review for oversight, and financial feasibility. They made a commitment to local governments not to just provide new schools but to also modernize old ones. She enumerated the challenges they faced which included site acquisitions, compliance with municipal regulations, compliance with Federal government regulations, competing objectives, school concurrency, full choice advocates, magnet programs, charter schools, boundary changes, and funding issues that could necessitate a referendum. She explained that a 2-year rule was implemented by an amendment to their interlocal agreement. (Clerk’s Note: A copy of Ms. Usher’s PowerPoint presentation is on file with the backup in the Office of the Clerk to the Board.) B) DQ ISCUSSION UESTIONS Chairman Ginn opened the floor to questions from the table. She understood that school concurrency is optional and all municipalities in the county must participate unless they are exempt. Mr. NobleMs. Usher and responded to numerous questions from the table concerning how the multipliers were determined, the number of schools that had been built since PBC has had school concurrency, how best to handle impact of intense development in certain February 4, 2004 3 sections of the county, portable classrooms, population growth, how to track the numbers, benefit to concurrency, how to impose impact fees to pay for the cost of schools, and many others. Mr. Noble Ms. Usher and also responded to questions of several individuals in the audience. Chairman Ginn feels it wise to have school concurrency so it can be addressed. She reminded everyone that all governments have to agree. Mr. Noble commented he would take this group (with so few municipalities) any time. Chairman Ginn called a brief recess at 2:58 p.m. Meeting was reconvened 3:06 with all participants present at the table. She then introduced the County’s Community Development Director Robert Keating to present the next item, Impact Fees. III. COUNTYWIDE IMPACT FEES ) P ARESENTATION County Community Development Director Robert Keating gave a PowerPoint presentation (Copy is on file with the backup in the Office of the Clerk to the Board). He recounted that the Board of County Commissioners had directed staff to begin changing and updating impact fees and listed the proposed impact fees. B) D ISCUSSION Discussion ensued amid questions and comments from the table and audience. School Board Assistant Superintendent of Finance Linda Richardson interjected that from the School District’s perspective, they are desirous of looking at impact fees or anything that could bring more revenue. It was noted that the County and municipalities have a lot of policy decisions ahead and school concurrency implementation would be a very intensive process. February 4, 2004 4 Individuals were called upon from the audience for their questions and comments. Before closing the meeting, Chairman Ginn recognized those staff members seated in the audience she had not acknowledged earlier in the meeting. ALL BACKUP DOCUMENTATION IS ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK TO THE BOARD AND IS HEREBY MADE A PART OF THESE MINUTES There being no further business, on Motion duly made, seconded and carried, the Board adjourned at 3:30 p.m. ATTEST: _________________________________ ________________________________ Jeffrey K. Barton, Clerk Caroline D. Ginn, Chairman Minutes Approved: _________________ BCC/PMR/MINUTES February 4, 2004 5