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complex and it may well be that most of those items in fuchsia may have to be addressed in a longer timeframe with the help of some outside source. Valerie Foushee said that she does think that what the Manager has proposed is the direction to begin and it does not seem as daunting a task. Betty Phelps-Davidson said that one possible solution might be to give the school boards two to three weeks to figure out what collaboration needs to occur between the districts related to the questions. Her concern is that if they do not do meet together first and August comes around, they may find themselves comparing apples and oranges. Nick Didow asked that the staff and County Commissioners think about backing this up one more step and looking at the yellow parts first, which would address the funding inequity between the two school systems. If the County Commissioners are not ready to address the funding inequity, then the rest of the study would not be worthwhile. Chair Brown said that a lot of the information that Nick Didow made reference to would be collected by staff. She is going to leave it up to the staff and let John Link meet with the superintendents and discuss it. Also, the chairs of the school boards should meet together and talk about collaboration in getting together the information. c. School Collaboration Study Rod Visser said that last fall the chairs of the three boards along with the superintendents met with Phillip Boyle at the Institute of Government to discuss the possibilities of looking at collaboration issues. The proposal is far the study that would be engaged in by the Board of County Commissioners at a cost of $20,QOQ to examine some of the barriers with, and opportunities of, collaboration. The Board of County Commissioners has talked about this and no conclusion has been reached. There are some mixed feelings about the study. Commissioner Jacobs said that one of the County Commissioners feels that it is not something that we should spend $20,OQ0 on, one of them is supportive of proceeding, and one of them wanted to see if the school boards were still committed to this process. He said that they brought this issue to this meeting to get a sense from the two school boards about whether or not they are committed to going forward with it. The County will be paying for the study. Gloria Foley said that they continue to support the desire to work on collaboration with Orange County Schools and they also support this memorandum of understanding. She said that a lot of the issues could be done in an impartial and systematic way that would behoove them to do whether there is merger or nat. Brenda Stephens said that they are also supportive of this. Chair Brown said that she is concerned about the limited number of people that would be involved. She asked how this process could be shared with other board members. Dana Thompson said that she is concerned about Dr. Boyle's involvement because he is a parent in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and she is concerned about whether this study could be free of any bias because of the association. However, she is impressed with him and his work. This is her individual perception. Chair Brown will have the Board of County Commissioners discuss this more. d. Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance Update Craig Benedict said that every jurisdiction and district has approved at least one version of the MOU of the SAPFO. Carrboro had an issue with how to address an over capacity situation in the middle school level of the CHCCS. Over the last month a committee of attorneys, planning directors, and school board representatives have met to discuss this issue and some of the CIP issues. Another question of Carrboro was how CAPS system is implemented. The staff has developed a workbook on how the SAPFO system works technically once it is implemented. The minor changes will have to go around to all of the