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0U0,, Professional staff to student ratio and the children were closely supervised- Ms. Scott responded to audience questioning saying that perhaps one or two children would be from Chatham County,the remainder coming from Orange County. She said this is a classroom therapy setting. Mr. Bill Baxter said the deadline for.obligating the money for renovation or a new building is dune 30, 1982,'otherwise the funding may be lost. Ms. Scott said the Mental Health Center had been searching for a site for a six months. Mr. Caldwell, of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board, said that the School Board had deeded the property to the County for the County to use as appropriate, whatever use is made of the property should be conducive and com- patible with the community. He said the feeling from the schools is that the cafeteria building was committed to Mental Health. He also felt the county could have a tax office at Northside to benefit the seniors, Ms. Belinda Jones, representing the Board of.-Directors of the Community School--for People Under Six, presented a petition with about 800 --signatures requesting that:the School not lose space in the building. She said the school bridged the gap between black and white. She also said that they accepted low income applicants; she said of all the children there (about 50) only nine families pay full tuition. Other day care centers pay little or no..utility costs: Ms. Zones said if the space allocated to the Community School is reduced, twenty children would be eliminated at the outside and nine at least. The option allocating the cafeteria building to the School is very "appealing" to the School; however, they do not have money for renovation or moving equipment. (See Petition #4 in Clerk's permanent file) Ms. Barbara Green. said that 53% of the women were employed outside the home. Major concerns of these women were: 3) quality of care for their child- ren; 2) cost of the care; 3) and the proximity to the homes of such care. She added that the Community School was very important; that it has a quality staff and environment. Ms. Patti Paddock, Director of the Community School, asked the County to maintain the current space allocation. she then provided some statistics on the i children served. Ms. Susan Cobb, a resident of the area, spoke to the expected traffic in-flow to the area. _ •.;;:;.