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CHAPEL HILL - CARRBORO CITY SCHOOLS <br />Lincoln Center, Merritt Mill Road <br />Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516 <br />Telephone: (919) 967 -8211 <br />Neil G. Pedersen <br />Superintendent <br />TO: Board of Education <br />FROM: Neil G. Pedersen%' <br />Superintendent <br />GG <br />Ann Hart, Assistant Superintendent <br />For instructional Services <br />Chester Prayer, Assistant Superintendent <br />For Support Services <br />RE: Request for advance authorization to order mobile classrooms <br />DATE: April 14, 1999 <br />Recently, we discussed the projected enrollments at our middle schools with respect <br />to the reassignment of some satellite attendance areas and the location of PREP Academy <br />classrooms. Those projections were based on simply moving students up a grade level and <br />did not reflect projected growth. Although our projections still are not quite finalized, we <br />have revised them to reflect the growth that is included in the state budget office's <br />projections. In doing this, each middle school's projection increased by approximately 30 <br />students. <br />This puts McDougle's projected membership at 798. At this time, we have <br />identified two to three smaller classrooms in McDougle Elementary that could be used by <br />the middle school. We are concerned that this may not be adequate to accommodate the <br />McDougle Middle School enrollment. Therefore, I am recommending that we proceed with <br />the purchase and location of two mobile classrooms at McDougle Middle School for the <br />1999 -2000 year. As you will recall, funds for this purchase are included in the CIP that <br />you recently approved. <br />In order for the mobile classrooms to be ready for the opening of school, they must <br />be ordered within 30 days. We need to ask the County Commissioners to authorize the <br />School Board to place an order for the mobile units in advance of their formal adoption of <br />the CEP budget. Funds would not be expended prior to July 1, 1999. <br />RESOLUTION: Be it, therefore, resolved that the Board of Education <br />approves the recommendation to request that the County <br />Commissioners authorize the Chapel Hill- Carrboro Board of <br />Education to enter into contracts for the purchase and erection of <br />mobile classrooms, not to exceed $125,000. <br />