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orange Countp 36oarb of Outatton RANDY BRIDGES, SUPERINTENDENT AltRoborouab, ,alt 27278 BOARD MEMBERS M EAST KINO STREU LARRY HAVERLAND.CHAIR TELEPHONE:DIV-732.0126 DELORES SIMPSON.VIDE CHAIR FAX:919-732.6120 ROBERT H.BATEMAN KErTH COOK SUSAN DOVENSARGER R1CMwRD KENNEDY DAVID KOLSINSKY MEMORANDUM TO: John Link FROM: Randy Bridges RE: information for September 30"Meeting DAi .: Scptemtx r 26, 1997 The Orange County Board of Education discussed the agenda and supporting materials you sent to my office fur next week's joint meeting. I hope this information is an adequate response to your request. Boars! Members Ms.Susan Dovenbarger and Dr.Rick Kennedy will serve on the High School Task Force. There was some discussion by our Board as to when the Task Forcc recommendation will come into effect for future school construction. Specifically,if the bond passes will our new high school be subject to what the Task 1=otre recommends? Orange County Schools had eight schools which wale a part of the ABC's report for last year. Seven of the eight whtxAs met expected growth Four of the seven received exemplary status. New Hope Elementary was recognised as a Top 25 school. one school,Hillsborough Elementary,missed meeting expected growth by a slim margin. We are having some difficulty determining the final enrollment of our students in Charter Schools. These arc the best figures we have at this time. 1. V illagc Chancr School 10 students 2. School in the Community 7 students 3 Orange Charter School 1 Total 127 students The financial implications for our systwn for the tmusfer of these students to Charter Schools are apptoxi mutely$239.903.00 in local funds,and $433.660.00 in state funds. We will be making a recomincodatiun to our Board at our October 6, 1997 Board Meeting as to how we can address these funds. 1 did not discuss the Alternative School with our Board last week. We only discussed the items on the agenda you sent to us. We were involved with solute discussions with representatives from the Chapel Hill System conecrning a joint effort in creating an Alternative School last year. We did not give serious cun:idcration to the matter bteattse at the time a building and location could not be determined. We did not makr provisions in our budget for an Alternative School. Since my Board has riot discussed this mauer,1 would prclur it not be an agenda item. Thanks for your support and we look forward to seeing you next week. tha