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II. The collaboration study will produce an interim report by May 2004, in time to initiate some meaninoful collaboration during the 2004-2005 school year if at all possible. The final report will recommend significant collaboration that will take place during the 2005-2006 school year and beyond. Proposed by Alice Gordon for the November 11, 2003 Baard of County Commissioners Work Session, *If action cannot be taken by this date, the tax will be implemented as soon as legally possible. Commissioner Carey said that the most significant element of his proposal is to design a process so that this Board and the citizens of Orange County are not back debating the issue of equitable funding 10-20 years from now. It is also designed to help put this Board and the County in a position to achieve some savings on capital projects such as school construction. He recognizes that the school system advocates are great advocates for the interests of children in schools and that is what they are designed to do. However, the Board of County Commissioners must be advocates for everyone, including those households that do not have children in schools. PROPOSAL FOR INSURING THAT EVERY SCHOOL AGE CHILD IN ORANGE COUNTY HAS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO REACH HISIHER FULL EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL February 12, 2004 meeting: Consider and act an a decision of whether the school systems should be merged II. If the Baard decides to merge the school systems, we should decide an February 12, 2004 to set the Effective Date of Merger for July 1, 2006 or July 1, 2008 III. If the Board decides to merge the school systems, we should decide on February 12, 2004 to appoint a Citizens Merger Advisory Task Force to work for not more than twelve months {12) after appointment to develop and recommend a Proposed Merger Plan to the BOCC for approval. The BOCC approved plan would be submitted to the State Department of Education in not mare than five months (5) after submission to the BOCC by the Citizens Task Force. The board should also decide at this meeting to employ a consultant to work with county staff and the Task Force to develop a plan that is consistent with state board of education policies. The task farce members and the consultant will be appointed within 90 days of the February 12, 2004 meeting. IV. Decide at the February 12, 2004 meeting that one part of the Proposed Merger Plan will include a provision that no student in either system will be involuntarily transferred from the school helshe attends on the effective date of merger within the first three years after the effective date of merger except far those transfers necessary for occupancy of the new high school in southern Orange County and the new middle school in central Orange County.