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Commissioner Halkiotis said to separate taxing authority from planning authority. Chair Jacobs said that there is agenda review an April 3rd and they will ask staff to provide all of the requested information and will make sure that it is efficient. 2. Confirmation of Timetable for CHCCS Elementary # 10 Rod Visser said that he and other staff attended a Carrboro Board of Alderman meeting recently and discussed the Twin Creeks campus and it was fairly positively received. This has some impact on CHCCS Elementary School #10, which is slated to go on the educational campus portion of the Twin Creeks property. There has also been discussion about a first school proposal that CHCCS has been discussing with the University for age 3 through 2nd grade. This would affect the need far buildings and elementary school capacity. Also, the first meeting in April, they expect to bring back the annual report from the Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance Technical Advisory Committee. At this time, the most pressing question is when elementary school space will be needed and it appears that it would need to open as early as 2007-08. There was also same discussion about haw the Twin Creeks campus might be presented far development review. Commissioner Carey asked the CHCCS school board chair and Superintendent to come forward. Chair Jacobs said that at the Carrboro meeting, that Carrboro seemed content to review this as one project. The Mayor raised the passibility of drawing a line where the connector road goes in such a way that the government did not have to pay for the whole thing. This was very positive and the Board of Aldermen was supportive. Steve Scroggs said that their concern is with the hydrology and the approval process of the entire site. He said that it was the Town of Carrboro that suggested they separate the elementary and middle school sites. This would allow them to move an the fast track because there will be a prototype on the site. Superintendent Pedersen said that the elementary school is needed in 2007. If the property were not split up, then it could not open until 2009 at the earliest. Chair Jacobs asked how this fits with the First School. Superintendent Pedersen said that as they have gotten more detail from the University, it looks like 2009 will not be realistic. They are still in discussions. He is convinced that they need a school as soon as possible and the timeline is mare favorable at Twin Creeks. John Link said that the drop-dead date is based on when the funding is available. He asked Rod Visser and Donna Dean when the County could incur the additional debt for Elementary School #10 and Donna Dean said 2008-09. There is $12.8 million calculated in the debt schedule as it stands now for Elementary School #10. John Link said that there is a date that they can work back from to when the building can be paid for and determine when you have to have approvals to build the school. Commissioner Carey said that the County Commissioners need to see these timelines. Commissioner Gordon said that it is important to realize that Elementary School #10 is not exempt from the adequate public facilities ordinance. She said that they have not changed the capacities for the SAPFO to track with the new State mandates. The SAPFO would require that this schaal be built at a certain time, and they need to know what this time is. Chair Jacobs said that one element of SAPFO is that it includes the possibility of stopping development. The Board has never talked about this, but it is there. The County Commissioners need to see drop dead dates from old and new formulas. Commissioner Halkiotis asked what it would cost to replicate Rashkis on this site and Steve Scroggs said $23 million, without a connector road. Superintendent Pedersen made reference to splitting up the site and said that there are a number of ways to build a school, and given that they are replicating the Rashkis model and