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generate about $17,000 more than originally expected. Assuming that the recommended district tax remains at 20.2 cents, it would generate an additional $343,000. Commissioner Gordon made reference to the issue of impact fees and said that we should take a good look at them because the construction costs of schools could be offset by a considerable amount using the increased impact fees. John Link said that it would be more accurate to say that based on the projections for sales tax, it looks like it will be six million dollars less over ten years than was projected earlier. Chair Halkiotis made reference to the general fund balance for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City schools and said it was $3.9 million. He asked Nick Didow if the board would be willing to appropriate the needed $479,000 far the proposed community gym at Meadowmont from their undesignated fund balance. 4. SCHOOL FACILITIES TASK FORCE REPORT Assistant County Manager Rod Visser made reference to the School Facilities Task Force that was formed last fall. The group included two County Commissioners, two Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board members and two Orange County School Board members. They looked at issues related to school construction standards and student population projections. The task farce met three times and a report was prepared. This represents a draft report at this point. The task force also looked at same issues related to the inflation factor, the contingency in a project budget, sizes of schools, etc. Commissioner Carey said that the work of the task force was done for this phase of the activity. The report includes a consensus of what was decided by the task force. The County Commissioners may make adjustments or changes to the report. If the changes are significant, we need to revisit the work with bath school boards. They did not decide whether there would be 3, 5, or 10-year membership projections because that decision needs to be made by the Board of County Commissioners. Commissioner Gordon made reference to the report and noted that the standards were reaffirmed and that the group did come forth with a recommendation that "membership" be used as the measure for student attendance because it provided the most realistic picture of the actual number of students attending schools. In contrast, the group did not recommend the use of "enrollment." She asked when the County Commissioners would discuss this issue and suggested adding it to the agenda for June 14tH Discussion ensued about the method to use for student population projections. Commissioner Jacobs said that he did not want to discount the Planning Director's work or Tischler and Associates' work. The Board decided to use the following five student growth projection methods and asked the staff to prepare new graphs utilizing these methods: 3-year cohort survival, 5-year cohort survival, 10-year cohort survival, Tischler and Orange County Planning. 5. ADJOURNMENT With no further items for the County Commissioners to consider, a motion was made by Commissioner Brown, seconded by Commissioner Carey to adjourn this meeting at 10:15 p.m. VOTE: UNANIMOUS The next Board of County Commissioners' meeting will take place at 7:30 p.m. on June 14, 2001 at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Stephen H. Halkiotis, Chair Beverly A. Blythe, CMC