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Environment and Resource Conservation Director Dave Stancil is the lead staff person with this group and reviewed the time frame. Chair Jacobs introduced Randy Copeland who had just arrived and is one of the new Orange County School board members. David Stancil said that there is a meeting of this group next Monday evening. This is a 193-acre site, which is located near the intersection of Old NC 86 and Eubanks Road. This work group is comprised of 23 members and has appointed representatives from each school board, Chapel Hill Town Council, and Carrboro Aldermen. The group will be co-chaired by Commissioners Brown and Gordon. They are looking at a report and plan by May or June of next year. They have been looking at similar sites around the southeast and they are hoping to plan a site visit for members of the work group to Chesterfield County, Virginia, which has done a combined park and educational campus similar to this design. Valerie Foushee asked about steering closer to a date that is needed by the school system. David Stancil said that they left it TBA on purpose because it would depend on what facilities are designed and to what degree. David Stancil said that he would provide a roster of members of this group to all school board and Board of County Commissioners members. Superintendent Neil Pedersen asked about the schools on this site and if the Board of County Commissioners sees us moving forward and acquiring a high school site before the master plan is finished. Chair Jacobs said that he could not speak for the rest of the Board but he wants more clarity on alternatives to this site. He said that the Board was looking at this with as much flexibility as possible because no decisions have been made about what educational facilities would go on this site. Nick Didow said that he and Mr. Sechrist would be representing the Chapel Hill- Carrboro City Schools on this trip to Virginia. b. Opportunities for Collaboration Between School Systems 1. School Survey Results Superintendent Neil Pedersen said that his staff has been trying to work out a schedule with Orange County staff to pursue this and they are anxious to do this. Dana Thompson reviewed the hand out and said that there were fewer responses at the high school level than the middle school level and they want to do it again at the high school level and hope for a better response rate. Chair Jacobs asked if both school systems found the information about interest in the other system intriguing enough to continue to discuss it and the answer was yes. 2. Proposed Institute of Government Assessment John Link said that the yellow sheet is a review of the meeting of September 18`h with the school board chairs, the Manager, and the Superintendent. He referred to the second paragraph, "Interests and Issues in Collaboration". There are nine issues that were identified. There is also a potential time frame with three steps to accomplish by June 2003. Professor Boyle from the Institute of Government would help with this process and the County would assume the costs. Dana Thompson said that she appreciated having the conversation and having Dr. Boyle with them and to prompt them to look at things differently. Valerie Foushee referred to item #7 since they spent a lot of time on this issue. This item states, "We need to establish short-term objectives and achieve some initial short-term progress yet keep in mind that collaboration is a long-term and ongoing process." She said that if we are going to continue in this effort, we do not want to put up stumbling blocks to stall us. She thinks that the most crucial thing is to identify the objectives in the short-term and establish a plan to get there.