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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

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11  Senator Lee moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

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17         Section 57.  Section 230.23162, Florida Statutes, 1998

18  Supplement, is amended to read:

19         230.23162  Residential public education facility.--

20         (1)  Ownership of the facility and related assets

21  authorized under former s. 985.402, is transferred to the

22  Department of Management Services. The Department of

23  Management Services shall direct change orders in existing

24  construction contracts necessary to complete construction to

25  the extent necessary to stabilize assets and prepare the

26  facility for future utilization. The Department of Management

27  Services shall provide administrative, site inspection, and

28  security services as necessary to carry out the provisions of

29  this section. The Department of Management Services shall have

30  access to all state funds previously appropriated to the

31  Alternative Education Institute for this purpose.

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 1         (a)  The Department of Management Services shall

 2  continue to work with contractors to weatherize, close in, and

 3  stabilize the facility, protect the assets, and resolve any

 4  claims regarding the facility.

 5         (b)  The Department of Management Services should

 6  continue to facilitate interest by private entities or public

 7  entities capable of serving as either owner, occupant, or

 8  fiscal agent for a public-private partnership. Any entity,

 9  public, private, or a public-private partnership, must meet

10  all of the criteria specified in the revised Department of

11  Management Services Request for Proposal dated August 21,

12  1998, and issued pursuant to chapter 98-209, Laws of Florida.

13         (2)  The Department of Management Services, in

14  cooperation with the relevant state agencies, is directed to

15  continue to receive and evaluate proposals for the use or

16  transfer of the facility described in subsection (1) and,

17  after taking into account local and state concerns and

18  interests, may make a final disposition for use or transfer of

19  such facility, subject to the notice, review, and objection

20  procedures of s. 216.177. Any unexpended balance of funds

21  appropriated from Specific Appropriation 2012A of chapter

22  94-357, Laws of Florida, remaining after dry-in and

23  stabilization may be expended, consistent with the provisions

24  of this section, for completion of the facility in connection

25  with the disposition or transfer of the facility.

26         (a)  The Department of Management Services shall

27  continue to invite public-agency proposals and related funding

28  requests, from either state or local agencies, to provide an

29  education program for nonadjudicated youth, and also to

30  continue to encourage other proposals and funding requests

31  consistent with state and local community needs and concerns.

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 1         (b)  Upon request, the Department of Management

 2  Services shall continue to work with project proposers who

 3  submitted proposals, and an addendum to proposals, to the

 4  working group pursuant to chapter 98-209, Laws of Florida.

 5         (c)  In considering proposals, the Department of

 6  Management Services and the Legislature shall take into

 7  account local and state interests and concerns.

 8         (2)(a)  A working group is formed to develop a plan for

 9  the use of the facility and to develop a request for proposals

10  or request for information for operation of the program by a

11  private contractor. The working group shall be composed of

12  eight members: one member each from the Department of

13  Education, Department of Juvenile Justice, and Department of

14  Children and Family Services; one member appointed by the

15  President of the Senate; one member appointed by the Speaker

16  of the House of Representatives; one representative of the

17  13th judicial circuit of Hillsborough County, to be appointed

18  by the Chief Circuit Judge; one representative of the

19  Hillsborough School District, and one representative from

20  local law enforcement to be appointed by the Sheriff of

21  Hillsborough County. The Department of Education shall provide

22  administrative support for the working group.

23         (b)  The group shall assess needs of categories of

24  clients served by the member agencies in evaluating possible

25  uses for the facility in meeting the needs of the clients. The

26  group shall identify client categories that may be served

27  through the use of the facility, shall outline a program

28  structure, and shall make further recommendations, including a

29  proposed private provider for implementation. The group should

30  consider previous recommendations for use of the facility, and

31  shall specifically consider the viability of prior proposals

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 1  submitted for use of the facility in the fiscal year

 2  1997-1998. The group shall be formed and activated when this

 3  act becomes law.

 4         (3)  The Department of Management Services shall survey

 5  state agencies, and shall invite bids and proposals from state

 6  agencies, local government agencies, federal agencies, and the

 7  private sector for the use or disposition of the facility and

 8  related assets, no later than June 15, 1998. Notwithstanding

 9  any law to the contrary, the Department of Management Services

10  shall set a deadline for receipt of bids and proposals of not

11  less than 3 months after the invitation for bids and proposals

12  is advertised.  By October 1, 1998, the Department of

13  Management Services shall evaluate all bids and proposals and

14  make a recommendation to the working group created under this

15  section regarding proposed uses for the facility, taking into

16  account local and state interests and concerns.

17         (4)  Taking into consideration the recommendation of

18  the Department of Management Services, and local and state

19  concerns and interests, the working group shall, no later than

20  November 1, 1998, make a final determination for the use or

21  disposition of the facility and related assets planned,

22  constructed, acquired, and equipped pursuant to Specific

23  Appropriation 2012A of the 1994-1995 General Appropriations

24  Act, and shall be disbanded upon that date.  Such

25  determination shall be subject to the notice, review, and

26  objection procedures of s. 216.177. If the final determination

27  made by the working group is objected to under s. 216.177, the

28  final determination for the facility and related assets shall

29  be made by the Legislature during the 1999 Regular Session.

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 2  And the title is amended as follows:

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 6         amending s. 230.23162, F.S.; directing the

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 8         transfer of a specified state facility;

 9         requiring the department to take steps to

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