School Concurrency

Recommendations have been made by the Growth and Development Director Larry Jennings for the Board of County Commission to serve as the lead agency in an intergovernmental agreement between the School District and the City of Brooksville for the process to begin the implementation of School Concurrency system(under their BOCC consent agenda) for November 15, 2005. School Concurrency was mandated in the 2005 Legislative Session. This is a major step in the right direction to help ease school overcrowding in our county. School concurrency has been a portion of state legislation since 1998 as voluntary but became mandatory in the 2005 Legislative Session. School concurrency will be a major tool to have development help pay its own way in our county (and state). Just imagine if the Hernando County School Board had voluntarily pushed for school concurrency in 1998. Would the school board landscape been filled with the 100's of portable classrooms? Would we have the massive overcrowding in the school rooms if concurrency had taken place in 1998? Would the School Board budget been stretched to the limit today if school concurrency had taken place in 1998? The mandatory requirement of the State Legislature is a step in the right direction to make sure our children & grandchildren have adequate classroom space. Hopefully, the Board of County Commission will agree with Mr. Jennings and will take the lead in this most crucial step of smart growth within our county.