RES-1998-030b A resolution of intent concerning the Role of The Schools and Land Use Councils 09-30-1998

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A RESOLUTION OF INTENT CONCERNING THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOLS AND LAND USE COUNCILS WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners and municipal governing boards make land use and development decisions that can increase the numbers of school children; and WHEREAS, the Orange County Schools Board of Education and Chapel Hill- Carrboro City Schools Board of Education are responsible for school policy and school buildings; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners with approval of the other jurisdictions has established Schools and Land Use Councils (one for each school district) to advise on issues concerning growth and land use issues relating to schools; and WHEREAS, the Schools and Land Use Councils are composed of elected representatives from the Orange County Commissioners, Carrboro Board of Aldermen, Chapel Hill Town Council, Hillsborough Town Board of Commissioners, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education, and Orange County Schools Board of Education; and WHEREAS, the Schools and Land Use Councils are charged with developing a coordinated plan for approving developments, accounting for the impact of the developments on school capacity, siting schools, and building schools to meet demonstrated need in a timely manner; and WHEREAS, the Schools and Land Use Councils began meeting on a bi-monthly basis in October 1997 to fulfill their charge; NOW, 'THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Schools and Land Use Councils have instructed their respective staffs to create initially face-to-face methods of information sharing through periodic meetings to be followed ultimately by electronic processes of data transfer and analysis resulting in: a. A coordinated system of information-sharing whereby each jurisdiction will be connected into the decision points of other jurisdictions as they relate to