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Libbie Hough said that Dr. Grumet and Amy Anderson came to their board last night and there was a really good turn out. The board has not had a chance to discuss this, but they will this Monday. She thinks it is accurate to say that they were not surprised by the report and that it affirmed things that they have been saying all along in their strategic plan and things that have been coming to light in various task forces. Commissioner Gordon said that she would like to reaffirm that she would like to proceed toward equity and would like to see it defined. She would like to hear if the OCS board has discussed any suggestions on how the Board of County Commissioners should proceed. She said that there is only one way that she can think of that would work - to start with the principle of holding CHCCS harmless -and then to raise taxes in the OCS. No matter how you cut it, the $13 million is due to higher taxes in CHCCS. She asked the OCS board to have this conversation of how to achieve funding equity. d. New School Construction Updates - OCS Middle School #3 and CHCCS High School #3 Chair Carey made reference to High School #3 and asked what the architect contributes the 25% overage to. Lisa Stuckey said that fundamentally, it is the same situation that is faced by anyone that is building right now. The costs have gone up significantly in terms of raw materials across the board. Competition is also a factor, because there were only two bidders. There is so much construction going on in this area and companies are not bidding unless they feel that the project is worth it. Chair Carey said that the last projection that the Board of County Commissioners saw was that the school would be $4 million over the agreed upon budget and now it is $8 million. He asked when it changed. Lisa Stuckey said that they put it out to bid and those were the bids. Elizabeth Carter said that the anticipation was that they would have more bidders. Chair Carey said that normally the architects give estimates just before bids go out. Lisa Stuckey said that the school board did not receive a report from the architects prior to putting it out to bid. Superintendent Neil Pedersen said that they did not receive a new figure before it went out to bid, but for the last few months, the architects have updated the estimates. Commissioner Jacobs said that the construction schedule seemed very optimistic. Lisa Stuckey said that Carrboro is having a public hearing on the CUP tonight and they agreed that it would be prudent to go forward with the bidding before the CUP was issued, so that when it is, they will be ready to start immediately. She said that they are still on target to open in August 2007. Commissioner Gordon said that she noticed in the estimate that there is money for the upgrades to Smith Level Road. Carrboro has been discussing what to do with Smith Level Road and which pot of money is to be used. She said that it looks like CHCCS might have to foot the bill far some road improvements that it would not have had to pay for previously, because now the NCDOT will not be making the road improvements until later. Lisa Stuckey said that the road upgrades are estimated to be about $350,000. Commissioner Halkiatis asked if there were things that were dropped off the list for the high school. He asked about the costs of LEED categorization and Lisa Stuckey said that it does not cost anything. Commissioner Halkiotis said that this information needs to be brought forward to the County Commissioners. He said that two years after East Chapel Hill High School was opened, the County Commissioners finally found out that the Town of Chapel Hill had put $1.5 million worth of mandates on the school system. He asked the CHCCS board to write down everything that is a cast of this building and everything that was tossed out.