Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 23, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: School Funding Options Task Force <br />DEPARTMENT: Commissioners /Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />2/15/00 Approved Meeting Summary <br />2/28/00 Draft Meeting Summary <br />Draft Task Force Report <br />(to be provided later under separate cover) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Commissioners Carey & Jacobs, ext 2125 <br />Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough <br />732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill <br />968 -4501 <br />Durham <br />688 -7331 <br />Mebane <br />336- 227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive a report on February meetings of the School Funding Options Task <br />Force. <br />BACKGROUND: As one element of their adopted goals for FY 1999 -2000, the County <br />Commissioners charged the Manager and staff to prepare a report outlining options for <br />establishing parameters for funding the public schools in fiscal year 2000 -2001 and beyond. <br />Staff presented this report in August 1999, and the options therein outlined were discussed in <br />December 1999 in a joint meeting between the BOCC and the two school boards. School <br />board members suggested that a work group composed of school board members and <br />Commissioners be convened to review those options and to make recommendations to the <br />BOCC. <br />In January 2000, the Board appointed a short duration School Funding Options Task Force, <br />consisting of two members each of the Board of Commissioners, the Orange County Board of <br />Education, and the Chapel Hill - Carrboro Board of Education. The County Manager, the two <br />Superintendents, and appropriate staff have provided support to the Task Force. The Task <br />Force met twice in February. An approved summary from the February 15 meeting and a draft <br />summary from the February 28 meeting are provided for the BOCC's information. <br />Commissioners Carey and Jacobs are working with staff to produce a first draft of a report from <br />the Task Force. That draft will be circulated to the school board members of the Task Force <br />(with an information copy to the BOCC) for their comments prior to the formal presentation of <br />the report to the Board of Commissioners in the near future. <br />