Building_development

11:48 So we're starting our

11:58 hearings tonight with Evergreen School District. It's docket CPZ 2025-0004 and is pertaining to Evergreen School District Capital Facilities Plan 2026 through 2022. The Evergreen School District Board of Directors has modified the capital facilities plan. This district is requesting that Clark County formally adopt the plan by reference in the 20-year Clark County Comprehensive Growth Management Plan and collect the recommended school impact fees. The Growth Management Act enables school districts to develop capital facilities plans and impact fee programs for new residential developments in order to offset the impacts of growth on school facilities. It further requires these plans and programs be reviewed and approved as part of the county and city comprehensive plans in which the school district is based. The minimum requirements of school district's

12:58 capital facilities plan are defined in the Growth Management Act and Clark County Code. A school district requesting impact fees shall submit to the county and update at least every four years a capital facilities plan adopted by the school board and consisting of the following elements. A standards of service description, an inventory of existing facilities, a forecast of future needs, proposed locations and capacities of expanded or new facilities, a six-year financing plans, and application of the impact fee formula set out in Clark County Code section 40.620.040. As a reminder, the financing plan for school capital facilities plans typically includes multiple funding sources. Depending on district eligibility, districts pay for a portion of the cost of capital facilities with funds provided by the state of Washington

13:55 through the Common School Construction Fund. The remaining capital expenses must be raised locally, which is typically done through the passage of bond levies, which raise the property taxes of all residential property owners within a particular district, and/or impact fees which only apply to new residential construction within the district. Next slide.

14:21 There are two criterion staff used to evaluate a school district's CFP. Criterion A is that in updating capital facilities plans, policies, and procedures, the county must determine that these updates are consistent with applicable provisions of the GMA and WAC, and policies and implementation measures of the comprehensive plan, and in conformance with purposes and intent of the applicable interjurisdictional agreements. The staff report that you received in your packet walks through the details of the applicable provisions of this criterion. In summary, staff found the CFP includes the required elements and information as mandated in GMA and the Clark County Comprehensive Growth Management Plan. Staff found the future needs outlined in the CFP are consistent with GMA, and the 2025 to 2040 comprehensive plan.

15:20 Staff found the financing plan outlined in the CFP meets criterion A because the financing plan has declared that based on enrollment forecast, existing capacity, and the district's educational standards, there is no present need for new capital facilities. Therefore, the plan proposes impact fees of zero dollars. Staff found the financing plan is consistent with GMA, impact fee related state statutes, and the 2025 to 2045 comprehensive growth management plan. Based on these findings, staff concluded the proposal meets criterion A. Next slide. Criterion B relates to reviewing school CFPs in accordance with the provisions of Clark County Code, section 40.620.030B, where the code specifies the Planning Commission shall consider whether the district's forecasting system

16:20 for enrollment projections appears reasonable and reliable, whether the anticipated level of state and voter approved funding appears reasonable and historically reliable,