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Commissioner Yuhasz asked if the Homestead property had any historical significance <br /> and Pam Jones said that it was built in the 1950's and she does not know of any historical <br /> origins. It used to be a community center. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs said that the County should have a policy that when it divests of <br /> any property that they need to see if there is any historical significance. <br /> Commissioner Gordon said that, since this issue was first presented at tonight's <br /> meeting, she did not have time to think about the best way to proceed. She would prefer to <br /> have research from the staff first so they could make a recommendation to the Board. <br /> A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Nelson to <br /> proceed as staff recommended with the Homestead property, with the deletion of#9 as stated <br /> previously, and to ask staff to report back with a recommendation for the other properties. <br /> VOTE: Ayes, 3 (Commissioner Nelson, Chair Foushee, Commissioner Gordon); Nays, 4 <br /> MOTION FAILED <br /> A motion was made by Commissioner Yuhasz, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to <br /> move forward with the Homestead property, delete # 9 from the process, reject the bids for the <br /> historic Hillsborough properties, and ask staff to bring back these properties, and if appropriate, <br /> re-advertise those with a preservation provision in place. <br /> VOTE: Ayes, 5; Nays, 2 (Commissioner Gordon and Commissioner Nelson) <br /> Frank Clifton said that before any more properties are put on surplus property, staff will <br /> do property searches for historical significance. <br /> Commissioner Nelson asked to bring back the New Hope Old 911 station property also. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs said that the Historic Preservation Commission has an Inventory <br /> of Historic Properties that it gave to the Board and it has been waiting for ten years to be <br /> published. <br /> b. School Capital Project Ordinance Amendments <br /> The Board considered approving the School Capital Project Ordinances and approving <br /> the appropriation of $724,000 from fund balance in the General Fund for transfer to the School <br /> Capital Project fund. <br /> Financial Services Director Gary Humphreys said that staff has spent a lot of time <br /> reviewing these projects and in some cases there was more money budgeted in the county <br /> records than CHCCS was showing overall for their projects. <br /> BACKGROUND: As part of the process of reviewing School Capital Projects, County <br /> staff shared the County's recorded amounts for School Capital Projects with the staff of the <br /> two school systems. County staff and the staff of both the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools <br /> systems and the Orange County Schools system had several meetings to compare respective <br /> project records and determine how to bring records into alignment. It has been a number of <br /> years since there has been an effort to reconcile the School project records and County project <br /> records. Differences have accumulated over this time. <br /> County staff met first with Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools system staff. After initially <br /> reviewing the budget and expenditure differences, staff jointly agreed to compare the <br /> remaining unspent budget balances for all of the projects per the County records with the <br /> remaining unspent project balances according to the school system's records. The <br /> comparison showed that the County's records have a total remaining unspent project balance <br />