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Superintendent Randy Bridges said that the initial piece was that when we said a thousand students that the requirement said that we had to have a 1500 core. You plug this into DPI and they give you a plan that it should look like this and have this many classrooms. Commissioner Halkiotis said that maybe the standards should be taken out and reviewed. The exceptional children programs need to be considered in the standards. He said that if a school is being built with these needs in mind, the price of the school is going to rise. Commissioner Brown made reference to the use of the Northern Human Services facility. She said that almost 100 children are using this facility per day far Head Start and day care services. She said that maybe Head Start could be built into the elementary schools and day care facilities could be built into the high school. c. CommunitylSchoal Media Center Shared Usage New High School Randy Bridges made reference to the new high school. He said that the front entrance leads into a media center that could be shared with the community. Brenda Stephens said that once the task force decides the feasibility of the Durham Tech satellite campus, it would be helpful and beneficial to the Durham Technical Community College if the library is there. She said that each year the public library enters into a contract with Durham Technical Community College to provide library services. It would be very convenient if the satellite site was at the new high school. Commissioner Gordon said that she would like to have additional information about what kind of library is being planned and what kind of services would be needed in conjunction with Durham Technical Community College. Commissioner Jacobs said that it seems feasible to consider this request in context with the community college. He agrees with Commissioner Gordan in that there are many requests far different kinds of libraries and so some determination needs to be made about the basic unit of library services provided in Orange County. Commissioner Halkiotis asked for additional information on what the County is spending for libraries in Orange County. Commissioner Brawn would like to see the casts of the library in a bigger context. Chair Carey said that the Board could discuss this after the Community College Task Force gets further along with their discussions and recommendations. Bob Bateman said that this idea would be something that the Joint Schools and Land Use Council could address with regard to co-location. d. Recreational Park (New Elementary School Site Randy Bridges spoke about the eleven acres which was for sale at the site of Orange County's new elementary school site to accommodate a park. He asked if the Commissioners would be interested in pursuing some kind of joint venture in purchasing same of the land to put a park on this site. Commissioner Gordon said that she supports the acquisition of this eleven acres and asked for additional information. Commissioner Jacobs said that there is a possibility that this 11 acres could be donated to the County. He referred this issue to Planning Director Craig Benedict. Bob Bateman said that it was stated at the last joint meeting that if the school system owned the land, the Commissioners would be interested in building a park. Chair Carey said that the County Commissioners needed additional information for further consideration. Commissioner Brown supports getting the property and co-locating some active recreation with the elementary school. She said that she was not sure that the County had money to develop parks. She said that state money and payment-in-lieu would be possibilities for funding. Rick Kennedy talked about the advantages of co-locating and allocating money for education.