- April 28, 2024
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The Flagler County school district’s proposal to raise local school impact fees requires final approval from the Flagler County Commission, but, for the second time in recent months, a commission vote on the fee increase has been delayed.
“For a lot of people, patience is running thin on this, the continuing of these extension,” County Commissioner Andy Dance said at a Feb. 21 commission meeting. “I know there’s been made progress, otherwise we wouldn’t have put it on the agenda ... but all parties need to get together and solve this issue so that we can move on.”
The County Commission on Nov. 2 had tabled a vote on the proposed fees, encouraging the school district administration to work with the Flagler Home Builders Association, which had opposed the rate hike, to come to an agreement on the fee schedule.
Earlier this month, the school district and the FHBA looked like they’d neared an agreement, and the proposal was placed on the County Commission’s Feb. 21 agenda.
The district — which had initially proposed almost doubling impact fees on single family homes in order to fund school capacity improvements — was proposing a more moderate, phased-in increase that would have initially raised fees by for single-family homes from $3,600 to $5,450, multi-family homes from $931 to $1,360, and mobile homes from $1,066 to $2,150, then gradually increased those fees when school district enrollment increases by 500 students.
But before the County Commission’s Feb. 21 meeting, the district notified county staff that the proposal wasn’t quite ready.
“All parties need to get this done,” Commission Chairman Joe Mullins said. “We have pushed it and pushed it.”
The proposal has been added to the commission’s March 21 agenda.
