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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />.ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 1, 1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. IQ•Q <br />SUBJECT: Chapel Hill- Cabboro Middle School Construction Options <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/lM <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT: (YN) <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />8/11198 CHCCS Superintendent Memos (2) IoM Link, ext 2300 <br />821 /98 N &O Article 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 review information related to choices under consideration by the Chapel Hill- Carrboro <br />Board of Education regarding siting of the planned new middle school. <br />BACKGROUND: The Chapel Hill- Camboro City Schools are Orange decision soon about which <br />option to choose regarding the siting of the planned fourth middle school in the Chapel Hill- Carrbom <br />system. TM two options under consideration both involve donated sires, one on University owned land in <br />the vicinity of Chapel Hill High and Served Elementary, and the other in the planned Meadowmont <br />development near the Orange -Durham County line. <br />At a recent meeting of the County Commissioners, the County Manager and Commissioner Gordon <br />shared information discussed by the Schools and Land Use Council relating to the middle school siting <br />options. Additional background information about the two sites, including perceived pros and cons of <br />each site. was outlined in two recent memos (attached) from the Superintendent, and summarized in an <br />August 21 article Item the Raleigh News & Observer. The Board of Education is scheduled to consider <br />this topic again at their nett regular meeting on September 3. The Schools and Land Use Council's next <br />meeting is now planned for September 23. <br />The project budget for the new middle school construction under the County's 1998 -2008 CIP is $19.8 <br />million, with 518 million of the funding to be derived from the sale of bonds approved by Orange County <br />voters in November 1997. CHCCS officials have expressed concerns that depending on Ore siting choice <br />made, the middle school project budget may be insufficient as it does not include funding for all of the <br />site development costs that may be incurred. The $19.8 million project budget does provide for the <br />construction of middle school with the parameters approved by the Board of Commissioners in <br />November 1996 for middle school Cmumenion standards, if the cost of construction falls in a range of <br />