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Last night the BOCC approved athree-page proposal, presented by Commissioner Jacobs, to fund the third high school for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS). This will be the fifth high school in Orange County. As 1 stated last night, there are cost statements an page 2 of this proposal that should be revised, and the purpose of Phis memorandum is to state (hose revisions. 1. "The current CHCCS proposal exceeds adopted standards by more than six million dollars, requiring $34, 527 per student seat.... " -Paragraph 6 Actually, the upper level of the adapted standards far a 1000 student high school is $29, 920, 913 ($29, 920 per student seat). Therefore, the current CHCCS proposal exceeds the adapted standards by more than faun million dollars. 2. "Even of $27.8 million, the spending per student seat for the new high school ($27, 800 would virtually equal that of Cedar Ridge High School in the Orange County system ($27,900)."-Paragraph 7 Actually, according to the Orange County Schools (OCS) Capital Improvement Plan for 2003-2093, adopted 4/07/2003, the budget for Cedar Ridge Nigh School through 2002-2003 was $29, 678, 600. This is an amount close to the upper level for the adopted high school construction standards. That amount was later reduced so that the project total now equals $28, 835, 000 or $28, 835 per student seat. The relevant page from the OCS Capital Improvement Plan is attached Commissioner Halkiotis said that he did some research and he wants members of the Board to receive copies of an email from Gloria Foley to Rod Visser and Mr. Visser's response regarding the construction costs for Cedar Ridge High School. He would like this to be entered into the record also. He said that he is starting to feel like we can only build up one organization by tearing down another. The Board of County Commissioners represents all the people in the County. The email correspondence is stated below: Gloria Foley: `"Rod, I have another question, please. Do you have the final budget breakdown for Cedar Ridge?" Rod Visser.- "Gloria: We've not gotten to the "final accounting" phase (as outlined in the County's "Policy on Planning and Funding School Capital Projects') yet sa we probably can't really say that we have the final budget breakdown for the Cedar Ridge project. That said, we do have the most recent capital project ordinance adopted for Cedar Ridge (from August 2002), which involved adding some funding for start-up costs. I've attached an a-copy of that project ordinance, which reflects a budget of $28, 835, 000 including $1,375,000 in one-time startup costs. If actual project expenditures to date are of interest, !imagine that Sandra Tinsley at OCS could provide that info to CHCCS staff. (Veil made a similar inquiry to yours, so I'm copying him and Steve Scroggs on this message as well. See you tomorrow afternoon." Commissioner Carey said that if there was just one organization by way of a school