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Planning & Concurrency

Mission

Planning and Concurrency is responsible for the ongoing coordination with Polk County and its member governments. This coordination includes gathering information on growth and development, implementation of interlocal agreements, capacity mitigation agreements and school concurrency, projections for new schools or additions to existing schools, site planning and acquisition, and coordinating planning activities with other Polk County Public Schools departments. The department also prepares the Five Year Program of Work, the Five Year Educational Plant Survey as well as population projections in consultation with Polk County and its member governments.

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Proposed School Zones

Click here to view the proposed elementary zones for August 2009 based on the impact of opening Spessard Holland Elementary.

Staff List

Area Code: 863
Name: Title and Responsibility: Phone:
Larry Helton Director of Planning and Concurrency 519-7562
Sara Lassater Secretary 519-7561
Brenda Taguri Senior Coordinator Demographic & Statistical Analyst
Responsibilities: Population projections, zoning, new school projections, GIS coordination
519-8298
Pam Price Facilities Planning Specialist
Responsibilities: Interlocal Agreements, public schools facilities element, site selection, comprehensive plans
534-0811