The Florida Department of Community Affairs has selected the School Board of Sarasota County as one of four recipients for a $35,000 grant to develop a model database tracking system and guidebook for school concurrency implementation.  In turn, the district will collaborate with Sarasota County's GIS office and all local governments' building and planning departments, and may sub-contract the technical elements.  The project will be completed by September 2007.  The primary benefit to the district is that we will be the first in Florida with such a tracking system, such that we may test our procedures with real data prior to concurrency implementation in 2008.

That the School Board of Sarasota County approves the $35,000 contract with the Florida Department of Community Affairs to develop a model database tracking system.

LEMPE & MARSH