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Superintendent Pedersen said that they are currently clearing the site at High School #3. <br />There is rough grading going on and sedimentation is being installed. He said that the drought <br />problem has worked to their advantage. <br />Commissioner Halkiotis asked if the fears about significant amounts of rock have come <br />through. Dr. Pedersen said not yet but that they are still in the clearing stage and so far so <br />good. <br />Superintendent Carraway said that information on Middle School #3 is in the packet - <br />{attachment 1-a-4) and all is progressing well. They are close to moving forward with a name <br />far the new school. They will take recommendations to the board on October 17~". <br />b. Informational Reports <br />1. Implications of State Lottery for Orange County's School Construction <br />Funding <br />Chair Carey referred to the informational reports, particularly, "Implications of State <br />Lottery for OC Schaol Construction Funding." He said this is a document that was shared by <br />the NCACC, but he had seen one that the School Board Association has put out that is a little <br />different. It talked about the amount of money each county and specifically Orange County is <br />projected to receive from lottery proceeds. <br />Commissioner Gordon said that the NCACC did discuss this in a preliminary way about <br />haw they were going to treat lottery proceeds and it appears it will be part of the public school <br />building fund. In Attachment 1-b-1, page 2 of 5 she said that the state is going to allocate the <br />lottery proceeds to the public school capital fund. You will recall that when the Commissioners <br />passed their new debt policy {the 60-40 policy) these were some restricted funds {the public <br />school building capital fund and also the impact fees) that were put in to paying debt services <br />rather than going with the pay as you go funds. This was a large amount of money. <br />Commissioner Gordon said that she suggested the impact fee monies could be allocated to <br />school districts directly as they used to be. Commissioner Gordon assumes they will be <br />discussing this with the school boards {whether the impact fees and the public school building <br />fund money go into paying debt service before the monies are allocated to the school districts in <br />the county or afterward in which case the Schaol systems get all of this money as pay-as-you-go <br />funds. She assumes that this is on the agenda for information only. <br />Commissioner Gordan recalled the public school building fund was around $800,000 <br />and if they get the lottery money, then this could be more than $2.5 million. It is a significant <br />amount of money that could go towards paying debt services and maybe the impact fees <br />revenue could be allocated as they were before. Commissioner Gordon reminded them that <br />she is only one Commissioner and that this has not been discussed with the other <br />Commissioners. Both ways the Commissioners will spend the lottery money on schools and <br />she reminded them that the impact school fee is higher in the CHCCS than the OCS. The main <br />thing is that the impact fees should go to the schools. <br />Budget Director Donna Dean reported the impact school fee figures - $4,407 for single <br />families and $1,920 for multi-family for CHCCS and $3,000 for single families and approximately <br />$1400 for multi family for OCS. <br />2. 14th Day Student Membership <br />