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Bridging a Partnership

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Our Strategic Partnership Team

Danielle Horras, Director

Robbie Reno

Tammy Merrithew

Matt Rauch

Brian Graves

Danielle also will add community members & others to the team

Our Future Picture (from our strategic plan)

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Every day in every classroom, students receive quality instruction and exhibit personal growth. We provide a safe environment that celebrates and supports our diverse student community in their learning needs and desired sense of belonging, so they are able to meet life’s opportunities and challenges in healthy ways with compassion for others.

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We share responsibility with our community and its leaders. We embrace parents, caregivers, and the community as vital partners in the education and success of all students.

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We want KSD to be the place where people choose to work.

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Past, present and future: We use a feedback loop to learn from the past, continue to improve, and to direct future innovation.

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Define the problem

1. When we review our growth projections, we will not have enough school space to meet the learning needs of students

Example: If we do nothing, we will have an average of 45 students in every 4th grade classroom

• Taxpayers have to shoulder 100% of the burden of building school facilities because schools are unable by law to collect impact fees AND the cost of living in Idaho has outpaced incomes

Example: The impact to the school district for every single family home is approximately $32,270 (study completed by Anne Wescott, Galena Consulting

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Predicted

Reality

KUNA SCHOOL DISTRICT 10-YEAR GROWTH PROJECTIONS

Growth consequences

• We have a urgent and dire need for support
• We are in crisis
• Without action, we will have 2,700 kids who don’t have classrooms or teachers for them
• Our taxpayers want to help and are concerned about their budget
• We need everyone to play their part

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Terms

• Bond - A property tax used to build schools. Requires a supermajority approval of voters. Only tool to pay for new schools. School districts can inform about the need for a bond and what it would be used to accomplish but cannot advocate or influence which way patrons should vote
• Impact fee - Fees that agencies can collect on new developments. Fire, Parks and Police can and do collect fees. ACHD requires mitigation by developers. Schools by law can not collect impact fees.
• Voluntary support - Developers who support the district.
• Cost per student - Definition slide 14 “Paying for Growth”
• Partnership - When developers work with us.
• Annexation - City Council can approve or deny annexation for reasons from critical agencies
• Critical agency - Letter from City of Kuna

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• Developers who support students & strong communities want:
• Transparency on how we determine support fees
• Consistent application of contributions

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• Other developers
• Have fought your efforts to pass impact fees
• Refuse to collaborate and contribute to schools and community

Whose job is it to pay for growth?

Our Voluntary Support Fee Proposal

1. $3,270 per home which is 10% of $32,700 impact a house has on the school district and/or the equivalent
2. Finalize a consistent, enforceable legal process to our plan
3. Build a stronger partnership with the City of Kuna

We believe that these three actions will allow us to be prepared to provide students the education they deserve and decrease the impact on our taxpayers.

Discussion & Feedback

What a voluntary support fee for KSD schools could look like:

• Voluntary support fee per housing unit $3,270
• Number of homes to cover the cost of to build an elementary 7,902
• Total revenue from $3,270 from 7,902 homes $25,840,000
• Student generation from 7,902 homes is 5,136

How does this compare to required City Fees?

City of Kuna is raising fees

Current Proposed Total fees Collected in the past 10 years

Fire:$824 Fire:$1,792 Fire: $210,139.40

Parks:$983.10 Parks: $2,604 Parks: $3,737,220.00

Police:$90 Police:$271 Police: $210,139.40

Total: $1,897.10 Total: $4,667 Total: $4,157,498.80

Schools: $0 Schools: $0 Schools: $0

*Under Idaho Code Schools are not allowed to collect impact fees