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Commissioner Jacobs said that he agrees with Commissioner Halkiotis on the issue of authenticating the numbers. He asked if there was any discussion on changing the levels of service as opposed to suspending the adequacy tests. John Link said that they have discussed changing the levels of service. He said that the suspension scenario would get approved more easily than changing the levels of service. Commissioner Jacobs asked if suspension was indefinite. Geof Gledhill said that the timing of the suspension would be until the next school was opened. Commissioner Jacobs asked about the update of the frequently asked questions. Craig Benedict said that they are continuing to update this. Commissioner Jacobs said that it would be good to give the FAQ to all of the other elected officials. Commissioner Gordon said that the concept of suspension would be same for the OCS as for the CHCCS because you put money in the CIP and it is a suspension until you build the facility. John Link said that getting everyone on board is the most important thing and we need to work through this for the next few years and the suspension would get others to sign off on the SAPFO more quickly. Craig Benedict spoke about the great strides they have made on the projection of numbers. Rod said that this is an update only this evening and the staff was not expecting any decisions. Chair Brown and Commissioner Halkiotis bath said that they support the Manager's recommendation. Commissioner Gordon supports this with the understanding that they have not changed the decision about the high school. Commissioner Jacobs and Chair Brown said that they would prefer to change the levels of service, but if it is not feasible then we should go with suspension of the adequacy tests. Commissioner Halkiotis said that there must be checks and balances far these numbers. The County has a responsibility to check the numbers. He is embarrassed because we failed the test. Commissioner Gordan said that we all need to check everybody else's numbers, but she would like to say that they have come up with an agreement to have a system to figure out the membership and the projections. She thinks this was a success. Regarding the line in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School system, Rod Visser said that the orange line is the line that Steve Scroggs described at the CHCCS Board meeting the other night as being the line below which they have done the analysis of how many students there are. He thinks that this defines the southern end of the district, but Mr. Scraggy did not put it in exactly those terms. There are two charts in the PowerPoint presentation, which the Board will receive, that show the number of students as of September 20, 2002 that live south and north of that line at all school levels. This line runs from the Durham County line, up NC 54 to South Columbia Street, then north to Franklin Street, then to Main Street in Carrboro, then back to NC 54 until the Bingham Township line. Commissioner Jacobs said that this line is different from before and we need numbers that are value neutral. Craig Benedict said that soon they will have the address matching system completed and the numbers can be analyzed. Commissioner Halkiotis said that he does not understand this because he can show a system that plats out multi-family housing and can tell how many children are in the units. This is an old system. He said that if the NC Smart system cannot do this, then there is something wrong with it. Commissioner Jacobs asked the Chair to invite Steve Scroggs to a televised meeting to talk about this map and explain the numbers.