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Community School for People under Six 400 Caldwell Street Ext. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 (919) 929-1543 (O); (919) 929-0091 (F) Website: www.csgu6.or~; Email: csix(a~bellsouth.net TO: Valerie Foushee, Chair, Orange County Commissioners Mike Nelson, Vice Chair Alice Gordon, Commissioner Pam Hemminger, Commissioner Barry Jacobs, Commissioner Bernadette Pelissier, Commissioner Steve Yuhasz, Commissioner FROM: Anna Mercer-McLean, Director DATE: May 18, 2009 RE: Request for Funding Support and Lease Extension Community School for People under Six, a nationally accredited child care program under the National Association for the Education of Young Children and 5-Star licensed by North Carolina will be dislocated from the Northside facility due to the construction of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Elementary School #11. With our current Orange County lease agreement expiring on June 30, 2009, we are requesting: 1) an extension of our lease agreement until June 2010; and 2) financial support in the amount of $150,000 to complete the necessary repairs and renovations on the proposed site at 102 Hargraves Street in Carrboro that will be leased to CSPU6 upon approval at the Carrboro Town of Alderman's meeting. CSPU6 has struggled financially since the announcement that a new school would be built on our home site of over 38 years at Northside; and to learn that we would have to find a new "home". Families have terminated their care and/or not enrolled due to the uncertainty of the program's status. It took 6 months to bring our status back to a calm; but now we are at the same point again of uncertainty; and families again are terminating care. We loss good teachers during the year due to the economic status that this unforeseen change caused for the school. We have served the community, and we met the needs of a diverse population. We want to help our families to feel more secure; and to reassure them that we will continue to exist in Orange County to provide the best early care and education for their child (ren). An extension of our lease will allow us time to raise the other $100,000 to achieve our renovation goals (Total $250,000). The current site has 7 classrooms; and the proposed site only has 3 classrooms. We are working to develop a plan to reconstruct office space and patio space into two classrooms; and to modify bathroom space into usable office space; while repairing other areas that are needed to meet building, sanitation and licensing standards. Thank you for your consideration. Our 56 children, 15 teachers and 3 support staff appreciate you for your work and commitment to young children.