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Chair Brown suggested consolidating the information and setting up a larger meeting with the Planning Board, etc. The information should be more simplistic. Cara Crider said that she is a professional advocate of smart growth and she is impressed with the Board and the staff grasping these concepts. She thinks it will be hard for people to understand this information and a lot of outreach will have to take place. She loves the idea of focus groups. She shares Commissioner Cordon's concerns that all of this is dependent on the cooperation of the municipalities within the County. She would be hesitant to go out in the community with any of this before there is a partnership. Chair Brawn said that would never happen because we have our interlocal agreements and she does not ever see stretching that. Cara Crisler said that for issues like affordability, it is going to be a nightmare, and people are going to call us on that. Craig Benedict will provide a timeline proposal to the Board within a couple of weeks. 3. Report on Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance The Board received as information an update on efforts to address the Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance {SAPFO) aspects specifically related to the Town of Carrboro's work session of February 18, 2003. Rod Visser reported that they had a meeting with representatives from each jurisdiction involved in the SAPFO. The first issue is the CIP and Carrboro raised concerns about whether the County would fallow through and have a fully funded CIP. They particularly raised a concern about a middle school for which there was a need. He thinks this concern was addressed at the meeting. He thinks Carrboro understands that when the CHCCS present their CIP and the Board of County Commissioners adopt a CIP for the years 2003-2013, there will be provision far a middle school {2008-2009) and it will be listed as a need in the CIP. The second area was Carrboro's concerns about a de facto moratorium as it relates to high school space. Carrboro's perspective is that the projections that were just done shows two years out and there is an 86-student overage. Carrboro's view is that this puts us in a moratorium situation. Craig Benedict tried to explain to Carrboro that if the SAPFO were in place right now, based on the student generation rates associated with the Tischler study, there are still 723 dwelling units that could be constructed before there would be a CAPS that exceeds the 110°l0 level of service. Craig Benedict said that the middle school adequacy test is being suspended in Orange County until the new school opens up. The high school adequacy test in the CHCCS could be suspended until the new high school space is available. This would address Carrboro's concerns about the impending moratorium. Rod Visser said that the third issue is CAPS administration. There is not consensus among all of the administration for each jurisdiction on exactly haw CAPS are administered. There is another meeting in ten days or so and Craig Benedict has circulated a computer spreadsheet showing how it works. There was complete consensus that everyone that associates with CAPS administration is able to explain it the same way to anyone walking in the door. There must be something in writing. Jahn Link said that Carrboro has gone through this process of dealing with differing entities. His recommendation is to use what Rod Visser described so that there is no "cloud". It takes all governing bodies to agree with the SAPFO to make it work. We are too close to an agreement to not accommodate. Commissioner Halkiotis said that he is concerned about how we can guarantee the accuracy of the numbers. He still believes that the County needs to take the lead in authenticating the numbers. The information needs to be irrefutable and should come from an objective source.