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the County and school staff met and reviewed the input and developed a draft of updated construction standards far all three levels. The collaboration group reviewed the draft standards. They are trying to get the standards into a farm that the County Commissioners can consider for adoption late in the fall. Jamezetta Bedford said that one of the goals is to get a general idea of these standards and the additional notion of a non-traditional school. Dennis Whitling said that they initially struggled with the non-traditional school concept and haw it will be defined. He said that there is a lot of detail in this plan and the plan is for the work group to finalize same of the detail and come to some conclusion. Commissioner Halkiotis said that he remembers that there was a desire from both school boards to look at the feasibility of including auxiliary gyms in future high school construction rather than waiting until the DPI recommended number of 1,500 kicks in. He said that there should be written guarantees that the communities can use these gyms. The school officials brought forward the argument that there are sa many high school athletic teams, that they do not get through with practice until late at night. The auxiliary gym would not have bleachers, scoreboards, etc. and would save some money. Commissioner Halkiotis said that at the County Commissioners' work session last week, the issue came up that the City of Mebane was interested in seeing the feasibility of Gravelly Hill being an emergency shelter. The County Commissioners discussed the possibility of working into the standards for all future constructions that they be generator-ready. If the City of Mebane is interested, then maybe it could also contribute something financially. Commissioner Carey made reference to the section on the schools being generator-ready and asked if this was for all schools or for those strategically located. Commissioner Halkiotis said that this is part of the discussion. It needs to be an upfront decision. He is in favor of putting generators in all schools. Commissioner Carey said that they have been talking about the concept of a non-traditional school for a while and he thinks that the consideration in the report is wise. He made reference to page 4 where it says, "a non-traditional model would be one that deviates in some ways from the traditional model and would be defined on a project by project basis." His question is who would define it on aproject-by-project basis. Commissioner Halkiotis said that it was an open-ended discussion since the concept of non-traditional may vary from each situation. Dennis Whitling said that essentially the first step would probably be the school board defining this concept with input from other entities depending on where the school would be located. Rod Visser reinforced the point about generators being site specific. Since the collaboration work group met, he talked with EMS about the notion of having schools built to be generator-ready. He said that the language here gets it into the mix so that it is not forgotten. However, there are same limitations as to haw many shelters can be managed atone time. He thinks that it makes sense to have shelters strategically located around the County. Commissioner Gordon reinforced what Commissioner Carey said about fleshing the non-traditional model because otherwise there may be questions. She said that there is a precedent in the SAPFO and the way building capacity is defined. She recommended having some kind of process regarding the non-traditional model.