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RESOLUTION <br />ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS <br />TASK FORCE <br />WHEREAS, during its 1997 Session, the North Carolina General Assembly <br />ratified House Bill 740 entitled "AN ACT TO ASSIST THE JOHNSTON <br />COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION WITH THE EXPEDITING OF PUBLIC <br />SCHOOL FACILITIES ", and <br />WHEREAS, that legislation authorized Johnston County to enter into direct <br />negotiations with separate prime contractors for the construction of new school <br />facilities under the Unitary Systems Approach (USA) model school plan, and <br />WHEREAS, that legislation was intended to allow Johnston County to provide for <br />timely and cost - effective construction of necessary new school facilities, and <br />WHEREAS, reports and site visits indicate that there are potential benefits to this <br />approach that could be realized in Orange County and its two school systems if <br />authorization to use this approach, or another appropriate model, were enacted in <br />similar legislation applicable to Orange County, <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE ORANGE COUNTY HIGH <br />SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS TASK FORCE that it does <br />recommend that the Orange County Board of Commissioners contact the members <br />of the Orange County legislative delegation to request that they introduce and <br />support legislation during the 1998 Session of the General Assembly that would <br />permit, but not require, Orange County and its two school systems to pursue the <br />approach to school construction contemplated in House Bill 740. <br />This, the 26th day of January, 1998. <br />