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1 <br />APPROVED 3/21/95 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />GOALS AND OBJECTIVES RETREAT <br />DECEMBER 10, 1994 <br />HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY CENTER <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners held their annual Goals and <br />Objectives Retreat on Saturday, December 10, 1994 beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the <br />Homestead Community Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FRESENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr., and Commissioners <br />William L. Crowther, Alice M. Gordon, Stephen H. Halkiotis and Don Willhoit. <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County <br />Managers Rod Visser and Albert Kittrell and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. <br />Blythe (other staff members are identified appropriately below) <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br />AGENDA FILE AND IN THE BOCC "GOALS" NOTEBOOK IN THE CLERKS OFFICE <br />CHANGES TO THE AGENDA <br />The Board agreed to add to the agenda citizen participation, solid waste, <br />paper efficiency, and communications including Board communications <br />COUNTY FISCAL POLICY CONSIDERATIONS AND <br />1. Implications for impact of: <br />- New School Facilities <br />1. Elementary School <br />2. High school <br />including school standards and <br />facilities (school capital) <br />DIRECTIONS <br />additional revenue sources for school <br />Commissioner Gordon expressed concerns about the rapid increase in student <br />enrollment and the school overcrowding which occurs as a result. As enrollment <br />exceeds capacity in more and more schools, it will be necessary to add new <br />classroom space. Before any more new schools are built it will be important <br />to set standards for school construction, such as the number of pupils per <br />classroom, the number of square feet per pupil, and the quality of building <br />construction. There also needs to be a plan for additional revenue sources. <br />She suggested reviewing the impact fee to see whether it should be raised, and <br />noted it would be important to address the issue of affordable housing in this <br />review. <br />In answer to a question from Commissioner Willhoit, Planning Director <br />Marvin Collins said that impact fee proceeds, which are distributed to the <br />school districts in which they are collected, amount to several hundred <br />thousand dollars. <br />Commissioner Willhoit noted that it is important to know the educational <br />implications of setting standards. <br />Chair Carey said that the County Commissioners have two meetings set with <br />