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. Includes four voter approved school capital bond referenda {1988, 1992, 1997 and 2001) ^ BOCC approved policies, standards and funding . Capital funding policy that earmarks annual non-debt revenues available for school and County capital projects . Construction and funding standards for elementary, middle and high schools . School construction impact fees to offset cost of new school construction . Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance and Memorandum of Understanding (SAPFO) to pace development with the County's fiscal ability to build new schools Joint venture in bus transportation/maintenance/fueling North Carolina Statutes Provide Four Ways to Merge School Systems tAppendix ^ Merger of Units in Same County Merger plan developed by boards of education; requires approval of board of county commissioners Merger plan requires approval by State Board of Education Merger plan may (or may not} be made contingent an voter approval Merger of Units in Adjoining Counties Involves merger of county school units in one or more adjoining or contiguous counties with a city school administrative unit Requires approval of the "tax-levying body for the school units" Merger of units by local boards of education City school unit notifies State Board that it is voluntarily dissolving itself State Board required to adopt a merger plan for the administrative unit No role for school board ar commissioners in merger plan; no referendum County Commissioner Initiated Merger Board of County Commissioners adopts plan for consolidation and merger of local administrative units located wholly within the county into a single unit County Commissioner Initiated Merger Preparation and approval of this type of merger consistent with a school administrative unit initiated consolidation and merger with three basic exceptions: ^ County Commissioners must provide local funding for all students at the highest level of any local school administrative unit in the county during the preceding five fiscal years before the merger ^ Boards of education "shall not participate by preparing, entering into, submitting, or agreeing to a plan" ^ "The plan shall not be contingent upon approval of the voters" North Carolina General Statute § 115C-67 provides that after the plan of consolidation and merger is approved by the State Board of Education, it "shall be deemed to have been made by authority of law and shall not be changed or amended except by an act of the General Assembly."