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Chair Brown read the goal again, "Adopt a Goal of Completing the Decision to Consolidate the Schools." She does not mind spending this year gathering the information to make this decision. Commissioner Carey retracted his statement about not asking permission from the school boards because we would never get it. He does not know that we would not get permission from the school boards. His recommended process is gathering information for the next few months and discussing this with the school boards and asking them both to make a decision. He made reference to an article that encouraged people to move into the CHCCS system because of the educational benefits. He did not agree with this article. Commissioner Halkiotis said that we need to be very careful in how this is worded. He asked Commissioner Jacobs to work with the staff in coming up with the language sa that there are no misinterpretations. Commissioner Gordon asked Geoff Gledhill about voting far this and how to decide about the Board of Education. Geoff Gledhill said that the County Commissioners would develop a plan and the one-person/one vote principle would be part of the plan. The specific methodology for electing the new board of education would be part of the plan that would be adopted as part of the merger process. Chair Brown said that she hears from everyone that there is a general interest in learning more. John Link said that he hears the Board saying that it would like to have staff work on the answers to the factual questions (financial issues, impacts, steps, the governing body, etc.}. Discussion ensued on the language of the goal. Commissioner Carey said that his language includes the decision to merge, but he can understand that the collective decision of the Board is to decide "whether" to do it. The staff will bring back answers to the factual questions. The Board broke for lunch at 12:15 p.m. and reconvened at 12:50 p.m. POTENTIAL WORK SESSION TOPICS Chair Brown mentioned adding identifying the phases of school system consolidation to the list of work session topics. There is also groundwater issues and rural buffer to add to the list. This is in addition to the list behind tab 4. Commissioner Jacobs asked about the Little River Park Inter-Local Agreement with Durham County and asked if there was a time element to have the park open by the fall. David Stancil said that the timetable is to have the memorandum worked out by the spring. Commissioner Jacobs suggested an indication for the topics if there is a time constraint. REVIEW OF INPUT FROM ADVISORY BOARDSICOMMISSIONS -ADVISORY BOARD PRESENTATIONS Advisory Board on Aging