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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 27, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 1 <br />SUBJECT: County /OCS /CHCCS Discussion /Policy Issues <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />As listed in "Background" <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />John Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />Donna Dean, ext 2151 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough <br />732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill <br />968 -4501 <br />Durham <br />688 -7331 <br />Mebane 336- 227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To discuss various issues with policy and/ or financial implications that are of <br />current interest to the Orange County Commissioners, Orange County Board of Education, <br />and /or Chapel Hill - Carrboro Board of Education. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />a) School Funding Options Task Force Discussions <br />As one element of their adopted goals for FY 1999 -2000, the County Commissioners charged <br />the Manager and staff to prepare a report outlining options for establishing parameters for <br />funding the public schools in fiscal year 2000 -2001 and beyond. Staff presented this report in <br />August 1999, and the options therein outlined were discussed in December 1999 in a joint <br />meeting between the BOCC and the two school boards. School board members suggested that <br />a work group composed of school board members and Commissioners be convened to review <br />those options and to make recommendations to the 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. With support from County staff, Commissioners Carey and <br />Jacobs developed a first draft of a report from the Task Force (Attachment 1a). That draft has <br />been circulated via the Superintendents to the school board members of the Task Force for <br />their comments prior to the formal presentation of the report to the Board of Commissioners in <br />the near future. <br />Attachment la — 3123100 Draft "Report from Orange County School Funding Options <br />Task Force" <br />