New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 6A - EDUCATION › Chapter 26 - EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES › Subchapter 2 - LONG-RANGE FACILITIES PLANS › Section 6A:26-2.1 - Responsibilities of school district

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Following
				the approval of the 2005 LRFP, each school district shall amend its LRFP at
				least once every five years on software made available by the Department, and
				in accordance with the instructions for completing the software. For newly
				established school districts, the LRFP shall be submitted no later than one
				year following its formation or earlier if the school district seeks approval
				for a school facilities project. The LRFP shall detail the school district's
				school facilities, other facilities and temporary facilities and the school
				district's plan for meeting school facilities needs during the ensuing five
				years.
(b) Except as provided in
				6A:26-3.1 4, no school facilities
				project shall be considered or approved unless the school district's LRFP has
				been submitted to the Department and approved by the Commissioner.
(c) Each school district shall submit its
				LRFP to the planning board(s) of the municipality(ies) in which the school
				district is situated, no later than the date the school district submits the
				LRFP to the Commissioner, to afford the planning board(s) the opportunity to
				prepare and submit findings to the school district. In the case of a regional
				school district, all municipalities comprising the regional school district
				shall be considered school districts in which the regional school district is
				situated for purposes of this subsection. A school district shall provide to
				the Division proof of the date the school district submits the LRFP to the
				Commissioner and to the planning board(s). The planning board(s) shall submit
				its findings, if any, to the Division of Administration and Finance, Office of
				School Facilities, PO Box 500, Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0500, within 45 days
				of its receipt of the LRFP. No LRFP shall be considered complete until comments
				have been received from the planning board(s) or until 45 days have passed from
				the planning boards' receipt of the LRFP. If the school district or its
				architect receives the planning board findings, the findings shall be forwarded
				promptly to the Division at the above address.
(d) All school districts sending students to
				another school district to be educated pursuant to
				18A:38-8 et seq. shall
				expeditiously provide all information necessary for the receiving school
				district to complete its LRFP, including, but not limited to, demographic
				information necessary to prepare enrollment projections. Both sending and
				receiving school districts must submit a LRFP. If a send-receive relationship
				is terminated pursuant to
				18A:38-21, both the sending and
				receiving school district shall promptly submit an amended LRFP.
(e) If one or more member school districts
				withdraw from a regional school district operating pursuant to
				18A:13-1 et seq., or the regional
				school district dissolves pursuant to
				18A:13-51 et seq., all such
				withdrawing school districts and the regional school district, if applicable,
				shall submit an amended LRFP.
(f)
				At any time, a school district may submit an amendment to an approved LRFP for
				review and approval by the Commissioner.
(g) A school district's approved LRFP shall
				remain in effect until an amended LRFP is approved.