2006 NS Planning - Consultant Contract - Education Facilities Impact Fees

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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: December 4, 2006 Action Agenda Item No. <J.~ ~ SUBJECT- Consultant Contract -Education Facilities Impact Fees DEPARTMENT: Planning & Purchasing PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Scope of Work Craig Benedict, AICP, Planning Consultant Timeline Director, 245-2592 Pam Jones, Purchasing Director, 245-2652 PURPOSE: To authorize the negotiation of a contract with Tischler and Associates, Inc. for professional services related to analyzing and updating the County's Education Facilities Impact Fee Ordinance. BACKGROUND: Based on comments from the BOCC on October 17, 2006 a more elaborate timeline has been included as well as minor scope of services updates. Education Facilities Impact Fee Ordinance Orange County is one of the few counties in North Carolina that has legislative authority to assess impact fees through State legislation passed in 1987 with additional legislation in 1991. Besides the original analysis to initialize the impact fees in 1991, subsequent updating has occurred in 1994 and 1995. In late 2000, Orange County contracted with Tischler and Associates to develop Student Generation Rates and Impact Fee Studies. Tischler produced a study in early 2001 which provided the basis for adopted impact fee levels. Student generation rates were also a product of the study and are now used in the annual SAPFOTAC (Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance Technical Advisory Committee) report to project the number of students expected in each school district from new development in the coming years. The BOCC adopted a new Education Facilities Impact Fee Schedule at the June 25, 2001 meeting which became effective July 1, 2001. The adopted impact fee level was 56% of the Maximum Supportable Impact Fee (MSIF) for Orange County Schools and 60% of the MSIF for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. '