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Chair Jacobs pointed out a chart from CHCCS Board Chair Lisa Stuckey. There are two different potential timetables far Elementary Schaal #10. He said that the County has money for the school, but not far the water and sewer and the connector road. The County has to pay half of this because of Twin Creeks Park. This will be another capital cost that will have to run parallel to the school construction. He said that the County Engineer would need to give an estimate of this cost. Possible 2007 Bond Referendum: Donna Dean made reference to attachment 1 g-1, which provides specifics on the 1997 and 2001 bonds. Everything from the 1997 bonds has been spent, and with the 2001 bonds, they have spent a little more than half of what the voters approved. Most of what has not been spent relates to OCS Middle School #3 and CHCCS High School #3. Chair Jacobs asked about the overage far the middle school and Donna Dean answered $4 million. Attachments 1 g-2 and 1 g-3 are spreadsheets that the Board has seen before regarding the long-range funding since 1988. This outlines that the schools have received 75°~ and the County has received 25°l0. This does not include the additional amounts for Middle School #3 and High School #3. Commissioner Gordon asked that this be updated. Commissioner Halkiotis suggested enhancing the pie chart later and listing what the County/Partner projects were for $85 million and all of the school construction for $254 million. He thinks this is a dramatic statement of the Board's priorities. Chair Jacobs suggested putting the dates on the construction projects also. The Southern Human Services Center was the last County building to be built, which was in 1998. Construction Update an Pending County Projects: This was attachment 1 h, which gives a quick reference on the timelines for the projects coming online in the next few years. Chair Jacobs said that he is not sure where the Twin Creeks Park infrastructure falls and he wants to track this. Commissioner Gordon agreed. Chair Jacobs said that when they met with OCS to discuss putting money toward the power lines for the new middle school, they indicated that this was amodel/precedent for what would be done at Twin Creeks; that it is a partnership because it is serving a County need and a school need. Orange County Impact Fee Authority: Geof Gledhill said that he was asked to look at whether or not the County can implement a County public transportation system impact fee, and he found that there is no legislative authority for them to do this. He said that there is no place in North Carolina that has broader ar amore comprehensive impact fee authority than in Orange County. He said that he tried to lay out a path for Orange County to approach the General Assembly about securing public transportation impact fee authority. He said that impact fee authority would be a difficult and tricky way to public transportation. The easiest way is to convert the impact fee authority into an impact tax. Chair Jacobs asked about page two of Geof Gledhill's letter where it talks about there being authority if working through a municipality. Geof Gledhill said that this is not for public transportation. This is a power that has been there forever and Orange County has not implemented it, and it relates to public transportation systems around municipalities. It involves contracting with the municipality and transferring all of the impact fee money to the municipality, and then the municipality does the road construction as part of the plan. Chair Jacobs said that if they are doing a strategic plan update with Hillsborough for the fringe areas, they could work out an agreement and ask for contributions to build up the road