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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 Commissioner Gordon said that there was a group called the Schools and Land Use Council that had all towns, the County Commissioners, and the two school boards represented and discussing. The completed task was the Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance. The next task was to identify school sites, but the group was disbanded. There is space for the next three schools in CHCCS. The needs of the OCS are satisfied at this time. However, she thinks that there should be a group to address this need. Commissioner Nelson made reference to the OCS and the perceived need that there will not be a need for a new school in ten years or so. He said that there are a lot of new subdivisions, particularly around Mebane, and he does not want to assume that these numbers are going to play out the way that they are now. Commissioner Jacobs said that all of the planners should be convened to discuss this, including construction standards. Andy Sachs did a recap of issues under this priority -reluctance of jurisdictions and school systems to join the County in doing this, putting together something with Assembly of Governments or staff, and creating a group at the planner level. Commissioner Nelson said that he took a tour of OCS's facilities, and 7 out of 12 of the schools were built before 1975, and all have original HVAC systems with problems. He would like to facilitate the replacement of the HVAC systems in these older schools to more energy efficient and reliable ones. Commissioner Gordon agreed with Commissioner Nelson and the greater needs of those older schools versus the newer schools. She would like to have a policy so that older schools could have some kind of equivalency to the newer schools, including energy efficiency and safety as well as renovations. School Funding Equity Commissioner Foushee said that the County Commissioners need to commit to moving forward on this, such as looking at ways to provide resources to the districts for issues related to safety and human services. She said that going outside of the per pupil expenditure, such as last year, should be done. Commissioner Gordon reinforced that the County Commissioners tried to do these things that are listed, and she would like to look at something to do within the per pupil, too. Andy Sachs asked how the staff should move forward with this. Commissioner Foushee said that the staff should give it the same consideration in this budget cycle as it did in last year's budget cycle. Affordable Housing This issue was discussed earlier. Commissioner Jacobs said that Commissioner Nelson referred to standards for providing affordable housing in developments, and if a developer exceeded them that there would be some kind of benefit. He said that there is almost no requirement for affordable housing. There is only a bonus if a developer provides extra affordable housing. He would like to look at the way in which the development process works so that it can create opportunities for negotiation. As water and sewer is brought to places like central Efland, there will be some opportunity. Commissioner Nelson said that he heard yesterday that with the University Station project, the developer has written in an automatic real estate transfer tax that would go to affordable housing, such as 1 %. He said that this kind of thing could be included. Andy Sachs said that this was all of the issues left in the first cut. Commissioner Nelson made reference to the Water Quality and Quantity item, which only got two votes, and said that one of the bullet points under that could go under Social