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Brevard staff detail spot-survey changes, timetable for educational plant survey update
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District staff told the board they will submit a spot survey and a revised five-year work program that record facility reclassifications and upcoming projects; the spot survey will go to the interlocal Capital Outlay Committee for a 15-day review before the board considers approval.
Miss Hand, speaking for district planning staff, gave the board an update on the educational plant survey and the related five-year work program, telling members the district will use a spot survey to capture interim facility use changes ahead of the full survey due in 2028.
The spot survey will record several immediate changes, Miss Hand said: KFU Elementary will be classified as ancillary use while the district and the city of Cape Canaveral continue talks about future use; Roosevelt Elementary will take students moved from Cape View; Clear Lake Education Center will note a state appropriation for a future health-care building; a separate day school is under construction at the Kennedy campus for the Gardendale Education Center; and South Pine Grove (on Wickham Road in Melbourne) will be recommended for ancillary use for the time being.
"The educational plant survey is actually done every five years, and we're about three and a half years into that cycle, but we are able to do updates through a spot survey," Miss Hand said, explaining that spot surveys let the district reflect changes between full survey cycles.
She laid out the review steps and schedule: staff will send the spot survey drafts to the Capital Outlay Committee — the district's intergovernmental coordination body made up of municipal representatives and Brevard County — which has a 15-day review period under the interlocal agreement; the district expects the spot survey to be on the board's May 12 agenda for approval. Separately, the Department of Education's five-year work program (a compliance document listing capacity projects and funding, including projects with FY26 expenditures) will follow a 30-day committee review and is expected on the board's May 26 agenda.
Miss Hand said the work program will include capacity and continuing projects such as the new separate day school, a South Elementary project, a Westside (elementary) classroom addition, a Bayside High School classroom addition, Edgewood's technology and robotics labs, an undefined South Area capacity project funded by impact fees, an adult education/health-care building and a transportation facility (locations and funding for some items not yet specified). She noted that projects with FY26 spending remain listed in the work program even if construction is complete because of ongoing fiscal-year expenditures.
The item the board will consider in May is a staff recommendation to approve the spot survey and forward the five-year program through the normal intergovernmental review, Miss Hand said. The board did not take formal action at the workshop; staff said the items will proceed through the Capital Outlay Committee and back to the board on the posted dates.
Next steps: staff will circulate the draft spot survey to the Capital Outlay Committee for its 15-day review, then return to the board for final consideration on the scheduled May agenda.
