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Chair Jacobs asked if this is her opinion or the Board's opinion. Dana Thompson said that this is her opinion and she said that she has discussed this with a few members and they agreed but they would like to take this back to their board. Alex Zaffron asked Dana Thompson if she wanted to run all the mechanisms as a rehearsal and see what flaws come out and do an analysis at the end and make what changes need to be made after the trial run. Dana Thompson said yes. Bill Strom said that they have had a long discussion about how you would try to pace the CAPS. He thinks that there are a lot of huge community issues at stake, and it does not seem practical to hold up someone's development just because you are in a trial run. He said that we all know that this is a voluntarily agreement and any body that signs this document can leave voluntarily if not comfortable. He does not support the trial run approach. It is time to proceed in his opinion. Joal Hall Broun said that it would be interesting to put in the mechanism and the model and start from 1992 and look at both school systems. Discussion ensued between Joal Hall Broun and Bill Strom about the issue of the trial run. (Carrboro Mayor Mike Nelson arrived at 8:35 pm) Dana Thompson said that as to the issue of whether people would take it seriously if it were a trial run, it is an issue of commitment. She said this needs to reflect the equitable commitment of the Board of County Commissioners to education throughout the County. It has been disconcerting to hear that if any body is not satisfied with the particulars, then they can disengage from the process. She said that they have not seen compromise, but only that if they are not happy that they could disengage. This is not a good message. They want to start out equitably and do not want to be rushed to finish this. Chair Jacobs said that one question is whether it would be legal to do the trial run. He spoke to Craig Benedict about his statement that February 15`h was optimal, but the ordinance could still work if it were not on February 15`h Craig Benedict said that February is the starting date for implementing the ordinance. But if you want to delay until June, it can be done, but you start a different type of process. The cadence of activity was well thought out. Geoff Gledhill said you could not say to a developer during a trial run that you have to go back and redo. He sees this as a negotiation process with respect to matching school capacity and development. This piece of it would be difficult to play out in a model. Flicka Bateman said that she feels like we are in this relentless cycle of delay. The whole point was to decide. She thinks that we need to say that this is flawed but we need to go on, or we need to do something with this to change it. Chair Jacobs said that we would all get the addendum and all boards will be able to vote on it and comment on this and the Board of Commissioners will make a decision after taking all of this in consideration. Commissioner Gordon said that she thinks the Board of County Commissioners will take this up in November and not wait until they get everything back. Commissioner Carey said that he has heard three different Carrboro elected officials raise the question about the Board of County Commissioners' intent relative to funding. He wants to know what the Carrboro Aldermen want to see before they act on this. The Board of County Commissioners' intention to fund school projects is in their CIP annually. He said that no commissioner is going to fund something without looking at the whole picture.