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down each day into the sewer. He asked if there could be any design changes to Eubanks Road to accommodate the vehicles and the potential contaminants. Commissioner Jacobs said that the recommendation is to solicit input on the two potential sites from the partners and report back at a future meeting. He said to use specific dates. He would suggest that this come back by the March 1St meeting with comments from the towns. He would also like to ask the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro if they wish to have the County consider the US 70 site, despite its additional costs to their respective jurisdictions. A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Foushee to solicit input on the two potential sites from the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and report back on March 1St, with the specifics as stated above by Commissioner Jacobs. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Chair Carey asked staff to draft a letter for him as soon as possible to the towns. b. CHCCS Elementary #10 Project Update The Board received an update regarding CHCCS Elementary #10. Budget Director Donna Coffey said that late Friday afternoon the staff received a memo from Superintendent Neil Pedersen about funding Elementary #10 at $24.3 million. The information that was presented to the Board in September regarding the debt plans included $21 million for Elementary #10, with an additional $1.2 million for water and sewer. She said that there are a lot of analyses that need to be done at this point, and these are listed in the abstract. She said that to fund this completely, the County would have to go over the 15°lo debt capacity limit, or cut County projects. Laura Blackmon said that there are several issues to be resolved. These include some design components that the CHCCS wanted to delete; concerns with debt capacity; concerns regarding County projects that may not be completed; and issues dealing with water and sewer and infrastructure. She is requesting that staff have additional time to analyze and review the impacts of this increased funding request. Jamezetta Bedford, Chair of CHCCS Board, said that last Thursday their board authorized administration to submit this request to the Board of County Commissioners for a capital project ordinance to fund this project. She said that they wanted to get it to the BOCC two weeks earlier, but they had to evaluate the differences between the single-prime and multi- prime contract approaches. She said that the school board reviewed the list of proposed project cuts, considering which items would be paid for over time, energy savings versus upfront costs, and what could be eliminated or built later. Regarding sustainability features, rainwater collection remains in the proposal. The school board decided that the solar panels and solar hot water heating system should remain in the project. She said that the other projects taken out reduced the project by $634,319 with the multi-prime contractor, but the project still remains over budget. The $24.3 million request includes the $1.2 million special County contribution and $900,000 already approved for planning. She said that the Carrboro Board of Aldermen has a list of conditions to meet, but all are doable and only two resulted in additional cast. She said that, in order to meet an August 2008 timeframe they need to break ground in March. The CHCCS elementary schools are over capacity and SAPFO can kick in, but she thinks that this should be avoided if possible. Commissioner Nelson said that the County Commissioners just received materials this afternoon, but they need time to digest this information. He said that the question for him is not if they decide to do this, but how. He commended the school board far leaving the solar features in. Commissioner Gordan asked haw long the bids were good and Steve Scroggs said until March 14, 2007.