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Bob Segal said that it depends on what they find. He said that they will need to see all invoices paid over the last year. He said that it would be nice to have three files of what was purchased. Elizabeth Carter said that her board's procedure would be to have this as an agenda item before they commit to this. Bob Segal said that he would be happy to attend their meeting. Dennis Whitling asked if they deal with computer purchases and Bob Segal said no because it is a highly technical and qualitative issue. Commissioner Halkiotis said that there has been a lot of snake oil salespeople trying to get school boards to do things to save money {i.e., contracts with cola companies). He said that the County Commissioners are not asking Bob Segal to do this kind of service. John Link said that it would also be interesting to look at banking services, because all three entities share the same bank. Lisa Stuckey said that she would like Mr. Segal to address the issue of who would be in charge and how the contracts would be configured. Bob Segal said that it would be easier to have three separate contracts with the same terms and conditions. Lisa Stuckey was talking about contracts between the vendor and the entities. Bob Segal said that it would have to be three separate contracts, but they would need to have the same pricing. There can be a joint RFP. AI Hartkopf said that this proposal looks prudent and measured and he supports this. The Orange County School Board agreed to move forward. Chair Jacobs said that the Board of County Commissioners will try and have this back on the agenda in October. Neil Pedersen said that he came across a good example last week where a school system had jointly purchased the Nextel walkie-talkie phones with the town government. There was cost savings and instant communications between the entities (law enforcement, transportation, and emergency). d. Middle School #3 (OCS Major Issue} Libbie Hough referred to a copy of a PowerPoint presentation from the architect outlining areas of increased cost, which also compares costs for Cedar Ridge three years ago and today. There is also a letter from Shirley Carraway dated May 14t" addressing the debt issue of Cedar Ridge. She said that with the current construct they have for paying off the debt to Cedar Ridge, it ties their hands for the next seven years as they try to pay off this debt. She acknowledged that the Orange County School Board had requested this arrangement several years ago. She said that they were caught between a rock and a hard place. There is also a letter relating to the current fund balance situation. They plan to use the reserves to deal with start-up costs for middle school #3 as well as take care of some facility needs at the other two middle schools. Commissioner Gordon made reference to sharing costs between the Orange County West Ten Soccer Center and asked about the proposed cast split. Libbie Hough said that they will get to that later on.