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I <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> BOARD COMMENTS item # 4 <br /> Date: August 20, 1997 <br /> SUBJECT: Age and Other Comparative Information on School Facilities <br /> DEPARTMENT: Commissioners INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Alice Gordon <br /> ATTACHMENTS: <br /> 1. Age of Elementary Schools <br /> 2. Age of Secondary Schools <br /> 3. School Facilities in the Orange County Schools <br /> 4. School Facilities in the Chapel HiII-Carrboro City Schools <br /> PURPOSE: To provide the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) and <br /> others with comparative information concerning school facilities-in <br /> Orange County, including their age. <br /> BACKGROUND: White serving as Chair of the School Capital Needs <br /> Task Advisory Task Force in 1991, 1 visited all the schools in Orange <br /> County. The most striking fact was that both school systems had a <br /> significant range of facilities, from older to newer and from more to <br /> less crowded. Thus the major contrast in school facilities seemed to <br /> be within a given system, rather than between systems. <br /> Since that time, new schools have been built in both systems <br /> and the BOCC continues to consider both new-buildings and changes <br /> to existing buildings. To obtain a perspective on the range of school <br /> facilities, I asked the staff to obtain information on existing schools in <br /> the Orange County Schools (OCS) and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City <br /> Schools (CHCCS). This information is presented in the four <br /> attachments described in the next section. <br />