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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OP EDUCATIOI~I INTL+ItOFFICE MEMORANDCIM TO. ANNE DIEDE+NBLIK CIIAIK, OKANGL? COUNTY BOARD OF L;DUCATION FROD4: GF.QRGE MCFARLEY, Jti. CAiEF OPEI2AT~IG OFFICEK SUBJECT: CEN'l1tAI.OItFiCE STAFF SPACL7 STUDY ISSUk?S DATE: NO~~IiRiRIitt 3, 2009 CC: ~~ALELiIB FOUSIIIIG+; PA7'KICK ItIIODIS; FRANK CL IF'tON Currently, 32 Central Office staff members are housed in a nun2bex of different locations within indi<~idual school buildings. In most cases, these staff members are located in school classrooms. A'1`TACIiMENT 1 lists these individuals, their office location, and their major job responsibilities. Several of the directorates have specific facility needs, e.g. limited access, a secure stoxage area for testing materials and confidential files. Ali of the directorates listed in AZTACHNIENT 1 require an area where confidenpal conversations can take place with parents, students, and/or other staff members. The spaces occupied by Central Offtee staff members in the individual schools work well for those staff members within the specific space, but in addition to the limitations listed above, these spaces lack the proximity needed for more collaboration with other district staff metnbexs. The itnpartance of close staff' coordination should not be minimized. With the Central Office staff members located throug~tout the county, txaveGng from otle location to another consumes valuable work lima There was no reasoned plan executed to place Central Office staff members where they are. When the decision vas trade in 2003 to xeno~ntte Hillsborough Elementary School, those Centt~al Office staff members located there were simply moved to any available space in the district \C/e need to develop some type of coherent plan for locating those Central Office stafimembers not currently able to fit into the existing Central Office. A~lorc importantly, at some point aad tithe, we are going to have to dealwith the issue of classroom space being used as Central Office staff spaces, espeaally as student growth continues iii our cletnentary schools. The bottom Iine is that approximately 15,000 square feet of classtoom space could be reclaimed for its intended purpose if au alternative location could be secured.