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Chair Jacobs said that the High School Planning Task Force is going to meet again in the near future. Commissioner Carey asked about getting the scheduling of the building of schools in writing. He said that we need to know what the implications would be for 2005 and 2006. 2. School Facilities Task Force Rod Visser referred to the minutes of the School Facilities Task Force. Most of the discussions have been related to the Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance. He deferred to Commissioner Gordon and Commissioner Brown who have been co-chairing this group. Commissioner Gordon said that the main thing they have been talking about is the Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance. The group has met four times. She said that the Schools and Land Use Council made recommendations on every variable that is necessary for the SAPFO. The Schools and Land Use Council has been waiting for the input from the School Facilities Task Force on these variables and these were finished at the last meeting. She said that they spent a lot of time talking about the methods of projections and finally ended up with an average of the five projections. There is some desire to have further analysis of the methods. The other major discussion was with the levels of service because there is an indication from jurisdictions that they do not want the SAPFO to trigger an immediate moratorium. The next meeting is October 10`h to continue these discussions. Commissioner Brown said that they have finished up with the work for the Ordinance and hopefully it will be ready by February 15`h. The Task Force will then look at school facilities issues such as the new high school. Gloria Faley said that she perceived that there were many of the issues dealing with the levels of service and she is not sure that the School Facilities Task Force is the place to decide the levels of service and that it crosses with municipalities. She said that it would be better for the Schools and Land Use Council to decide the levels of service rather than the School Facilities Task Force. Chair Jacobs said that the County Commissioners envisioned the levels of service being decided by the School Facilities Task Force because they thought it was a focus group that would move faster through the issues. Commissioner Gordon asked about segueing into the item on the SAPFO, since we are already talking about it. Gloria Faley said that in her group there were many questions that were cross-municipality questions. Commissioner Brown asked her about the questions. Gloria Faley said that the municipalities come from different directions and what is the impact of the levels of service on their development, on their tax needs, etc. Commissioner Brown said that she thought it was the job of the Board of County Commissioners and the school boards to come up with the levels of service. Commissioner Gordon said that what the School Facilities Task Force decides comes before the School Land Use Council and the Schools and Land Use Council has municipality representatives in it. Chair Jacobs said that if we have already gotten feedback from the municipalities officially, then he does not think we need to consult them again. Dana Thompson asked about setting construction standards and how high school standards might change and said that she would also like to review construction standards for the middle schools. Commissioner Brown asked about using the construction design of Smith Middle School. Chair Jacobs made reference to the copy of a video from the Department of Energy that featured conservation minded, energy efficient, and environmentally sensitive schools around the country. Smith Middle School was featured in this video. 3. Chapel Hill Township Park and Educational Campus Work Group