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Future BOCC Capital Discussions <br />^ June 9 Schools Budget/CIP Work Session <br />^ June 20 Budget Work Session <br />Commissioner Halkiotis said that he was offended by some comments at the budget <br />public hearings about how the Board of County Commissioners was funding a super high-tech <br />new high school in Chapel Hill and there was a school in northern Orange County that had no <br />doors on its bathroom stalls. He said that everybody would like to have a sense of equity when <br />a new school comes is being built, but the bottom line is that when A. L. Stanback was built <br />about 12 years ago, it had many things that C. VIl. Stanford did not have, including an <br />auditorium. He said that you couldn't take both middle schools and bring them up to the same <br />level as the new middle school that is going to be built. <br />Commissioner Jacobs said that the 2001 bonds had $900,000 for renovations of <br />Orange County schools. He would like to knave how this was spent. He would also like to go <br />back ten years and get information about the cost for a Chapel Hill middle school. <br />Commissioner Gordan agreed with Commissioner Halkiotis, but she said that it is <br />incumbent upon the County Commissioners to do some things for older schools. She agrees <br />that you cannot make them the same, but you can do something to make them equivalent in <br />some way. <br />Chair Carey said that they have encouraged both school systems to try and make <br />those changes to the old school buildings. He said that the Board has opted not to adopt a <br />policy of making the school buildings equivalent because the cast of renovations is so high. He <br />thinks that Option 2 provides the school systems with a little more money to have the flexibility <br />to da same of these things. <br />Chair Carey asked about the Board of Elections space needs. Commissioner Jacobs <br />said that there is another meeting of the Space Needs Committee next week, and this is one of <br />the items to be discussed. <br />11. Closed Session-NONE <br />12. Adjournment <br />A motion was made by Commissioner Halkiotis, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to <br />adjourn the meeting at 10:32 p.m. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />Moses Carey, Jr., Chair <br />Donna S. Baker <br />Clerk to the Board <br />