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Commissioner Jacobs asked if this says that these are numbers that the Board has not approved yet. The numbers are speculative. Pam Jones said that in February the guaranteed maximum price would come forward. Commissioner Jacobs said that he is supportive, but there is some mixing of things with a fixed amount and another amount that might have to be spent, but the Board has not agreed on it. He would like to flag the Animal Services Facilities as something in process. Laura Blackmon said that the goal is to have good numbers, but the further out you go, the less precise the numbers are. The rest of the page is accurate. Commissioner Gordon asked for clarification of what projects and dollar amounts are included in this CIP. The answer was that the CIP document was generated by staff and includes projects and costs that have not yet been approved by the Commissioners. Commissioner Gordon said that December 3~d is way too soon to approve this plan with so much information for them to digest. She said that she wants documentation of which projects and cost figures the Board has and has not approved. Laura Blackmon said that this is only a plan. Commissioner Gordon said that she understands this, but if there are inaccurate numbers in the plan, then accurate decisions cannot be made. Donna Coffey said that this is a living document that is brought back every year to the Board, because the numbers are constantly changing and the plan must be updated. She said that this is the same CIP process that the Board went through up until 2002. Commissioner Gordon said that her concern is that when you have numbers that increase by this percentage from original cost estimates, there is not a good method for dealing with them. Commissioner Gordon said that there should be a Commissioners' decision about how the Animal Services Facility is handled, because the recent cost increase for this facility is almost one cent on the tax rate. Chair Carey said that the Board needs to know the acceleration in costs and how they are incorporated, because this has been a trap. He asked what needed to be done between now and December 3~d Laura Blackmon suggested looking through lines 18-79 to see if the Board is comfortable with these items. Commissioner Nelson made reference to # 64, Twin Creeks Park, which is listed as $1.8 million, but it will cost a lot more than this. He asked if there was a projected figure in this document. Donna Coffey said that Appendix A includes the unfunded portion. Commissioner Nelson said that it would have been helpful to have had the unfunded amount listed on the same sheets. Commissioner Nelson made reference to Future County Projects Reserves, # 67, and asked why these projects are funded and the reserves are accumulating each year. Donna Coffey said that these monies could accumulate to a point that there were sufficient funds to build them, or the monies could be dedicated to debt service to build the facilities. Commissioner Nelson said that he loves this conversation on the CIP, and the staff did an excellent job. He said that it is dense and informative, but worth it. Commissioner Jacobs suggested giving these items the number that is indicated on page 1-8, so that it is easier to be cross-referenced. He also said that the project description is confusing about the library on page 2-13. Commissioner Jacobs made reference to the County Telephone System Replacement, #25, and asked about the back page where there are no operation or maintenance costs. He asked if this was included in someone's operating budget. Pam Jones said that it depends on future decisions that are made.