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Lisa Stuckey reminded everyone that there are significant differences in the two programs. She said that the Middle College starts at noon and goes until 5:00 p.m., whereas the interdistrict program is a full-day commitment. It is a totally different kind of experience. Chair Carey asked if there were any transfers in the other direction (OCS students to CHCCS} and Superintendent Pedersen said that they do not accept any out of district students except for employees' children. Commissioner Halkiotis asked about costs to the students who are attending the OCS and Superintendent Carraway said they were not charged. Dennis Whitling said that he knows of three families that chose to move from CHCCS to OCS for the IB program. Chair Carey shared with Board of County Commissioners information about the High Five program that he attended last week and said he continues to be awed about the goal to eliminate dropouts. He encouraged the Commissioners to stay tuned to that discussion because he is sure that the priorities to achieve that goal have not been completely thought through yet. He asked how the $500,000 that is supposed to be available for the next 5 years (the goal is for 8 years) is going to be allocated and is there some process that you have to go through to get access to that $500,000 or some part of it. Superintendent Carraway said they do not actually have access to the money because the money is used to fund the activities that the organization puts on or sponsors and the dollars do not come to the school districts. For example, one of the items that is in your packet tonight is a convocation that was at the RBC Center on August 22, which was funded through the money that was generated through the donations from the five partners. The dollars do not come to the school district. Chair Carey expressed his dismay that none of the $500,000 actually came to the school district. Superintendent Carraway said the money is spent in the five districts and they have the benefits but not the dollars. Chair Carey said perhaps when we have our next district meeting someone could help him understand how it was going to benefit the school district. AI Hartkopf said that Lisa Stuckey, Neil Pedersen and he all attended the district conference in Asheboro and three points were made: collaborative buying, to a lesser extent collaborative selling, and funneling purchases through the county as much as possible since the schools cannot recoup the sales tax. Mr. Hartkopf covered in detail each of these three points and feels very strongly that the Schools and the County should take advantage of all the possibilities available. He hopes that these points can be discussed in depth at the collaboration meetings. Chair Carey said that although he feels sure that same of our board members would like to comment, this concept goes beyond the construction project manager concept, but the idea does include other things. That is something that can be worked on with bath school boards and if there were ways to save some money, the Commissioners would be willing to consider them. Chair Carey referred to attachment I-a-3-b (Mr. Segal's report) and said that they may want to get some comments on this since both school systems have adopted the intent on this and have begun to pursue some of the savings that Mr. Segal discusses in his document. Commissioner Jacobs said that the Segal report is consistent with what AI Hartkopf was talking about and we want to look for ways to collaborate. Commissioner Jacobs said that we need to see what we saved and he said there are some things that we discussed last spring that do no show up here. He suggested for Mr. Segal to go back and add these. He said that it looks like Mr. Segal has made some significant progress and it is good that they are looking at ways to save and try to do the best with the resources available. Even though it has been sporadic, this has been a good example of how collaboration can work. He is glad to see Mr.