Officials propose rewritten interlocal agreement on school planning to streamline concurrency, add impact‑fee rules

County, city and school district staff presented an updated draft of the interlocal agreement (ILA) that governs school planning, concurrency and impact fees.

Chris Wilson of CJ Wilson Law and Jim Lipsey (school planning lead) outlined three broad changes: bring the ILA into alignment with current Florida statutes, streamline school site selection and concurrency processes, and add an explicit interlocal arrangement for administration, collection and remittance of school impact fees.

What the draft would change

- Planning and oversight: The draft replaces a quarterly interlocal committee with a staff working group that would meet at least twice a year (spring and fall) and prepare an annual report. The draft also proposes a smaller oversight committee made up of appointed elected officials from each body (suggested composition was discussed in the meeting). That oversight committee would hold an annual…