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Commissioner Gordon would like to get the staff (Manager, ERCQ, Purchasing, etc.} and the attorney and make them available to consult with the school system as they move forward in this process. John Link has already offered this to Superintendent Pedersen. Commissioner Jacobs said that some of the County Commissioners were unclear about how space is used at the high schools and space that is set aside for childcare and whether this could be set aside as classroom space. He asked for an explanation sometime in the near future and whether or not they could identify room for 86 high school students sa that we would not be over capacity in 2004-2005. Commissioner Carey said that he supports the staff being available to the school system, but Carrbora has raised some issues that he does not think that we are going to be able to address. He thinks that Carrbora is looking for something mare than our willingness to say that we have done it in the past and will do it in the future. John Link said that staff would come up with a letter to try and respond to the questions from Carrboro. Chair Brawn does not want the SAPFC? to fall apart because of Carrboro's lack of confidence. She thinks there are a lot of ways to mitigate 230 students and not be in a moratorium in a couple of years. Commissioner Jacobs said that there is an Assembly of Governments meeting on April 29th and he suggested that there be a presentation to all municipal boards on haw our CIP works and how we would not have entered into SAPFC~ if we did not understand that we were responsible for providing educational facilities in a timely manner. He would like to have some kind of formal response from Hillsborough by this time. Chair Brown asked Gloria Foley what would be presented to the Board of County Commissioners and at what time. Gloria Foley said that they would have a presentation ready by April with an identified site of the new high school. This would include the site and financial information. Chair Brown asked if there was any room for the High School Planning Task Farce. Gloria Foley said that they have already had the discussions regarding identifying sites unless there are other issues. Chair Brown said that there are a lot of other issues with the urban school design, etc. Gloria Foley said that they were going to try to keep to the schedule of opening in 2006-2007. Chair Brown said that she does not want to gear up a High School Planning Task Force if it is not what the school board is trying to achieve. Gloria Foley said that it might be a good idea for the school staff to talk about the legal issues and the planning issues but let the school board pursue which is the best site. Chair Brawn said that she would postpone the High Schaal Planning Task Force unless she hears any different. She said that if the choice is to go to CHETPAC, then this is another planning issue that would have to be discussed. She said that she saw the architect put a high school down on the CHETPAC site. She said that a high school would not work at this site.