2003 NS Manager - CHCCS -Proposed Addenda to Interlocal Agreement on CHCCS High School #3

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4 1' ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: December 9, 2003 Action Agenda Item No. ~,_ SUBJECT: Proposed Addenda to the Interlocal Agreement on CHCCS High School #3 DEPARTMENT: County Commissioners/ PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No Manager/Attorney/Planning ATTACHMENT(S): .August 2003 Interlocal Agreement Revised Proposed Addenda A and B Report and Background Documents on Smart Growth Principles (under separate cover) INFORMATION CONTACT: Barry Jacobs or Margaret Brown, 245-2125 John Link, 245-2300 Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 Craig Benedict, 245-2592 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider approval of two addenda to the interlocal agreement that became effective on August 7, 2003 regarding the planned third Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) high school BACKGROUND: On June 23, 2003, the Board of Commissioners approved an interlocal agreement between the County and. CHCCS that established the anticipated budget and other considerations related to the project to design and build a third high school in the Chapel Hill- Carrboro system. The BOCC determined that they would provide $27.8 million in capital funding for this project. The original agreement provided that CHCCS would be responsible to fund, in a manner not requiring Orange County to incur additional debt, any amount by which the overall high school #3 project cost should exceed the $27.8 million budget (the original agreement did not include subsequently proposed addenda A and B described below)*. The BOCC also indicated that they would provide an additional $2.2 million if CHCCS provided the BOCC with a satisfactory proposal `for a design of CHCCS high school #3 that promotes smart- growth, which design addresses `reduced parking, ~reducedJ land disturbance, and other deleterious aspects of current plans": On August 7, 2003, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education likewise approved the agreement. *In conjunction with its approval of the interlocal agreement, the Board of Education proposed two addenda that they believed would help clarify the intent and scope of the interlocal agreement. The County Commissioners considered the proposed addenda at their regular meeting on August 19, 2003, but refrained from taking action at that time pending requested modifications to both.