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CHCCS Chair Brownstein asked for clarification on the difference between the color sheets and the white CIP sheets. Frank Clifton said staff was asked to provide the two different scenarios and this was just a response to that request. CHCCS Chair Brownstein said the same problem seems to exist on both sets of papers. CHCCS Chair Brownstein asked where things go from here. Chair Jacobs said this will come back to the Board of County Commissioners for CIP discussions, and then there will be public hearings on the proposed budget. May 9th is the CIP work session and public hearings will be held on May 23 d and May 30th. Commissioner Price asked when the science wing would open, if it is funded. This was answered, August of 2014. Superintendent Rhodes said there is a need for auxiliary gym at CRHS. OCS Chair Coffey said this is scheduled for 2014. Chair Jacobs said projections are just projections and Orange County is projecting conservatively. He said a similar discussion was held in 2001 regarding a bond referendum proposal. Pre-K CHCCS Chair Brownstein said this conversation has gone on for the past two years to address having Pre-k in their elementary schools and its impact on capacity. She said the idea behind the draft resolution is to have something in writing about the district philosophy on the value of pre-k; and to create a consensus on decisions regarding capacity and when new schools need to come on board. Chair Jacobs noted several sheets at the Commissioner's places from the different schools, relating to pre-k numbers. OCS Chair Coffey said only one elementary school in the district has been built since the 1996 school construction standards, so this is the only school that allows for pre-k. The rest of the pre-k classes are absorbed by the current elementary capacity. Chair Jacobs said the issue is how to count these classrooms toward school capacity. He said some may feel that, by counting pre-k toward capacity, the county will rush too quickly to having to build another elementary school. He said there was no consensus among the three Chairs on how to finish the wording on the resolution because each of them came at it from a different position. CHCCS Chair Brownstein said the resolution is pretty factual, and then the meat of it is the last paragraph, which discusses how the issue will be addressed. Chair Jacobs said if no one has anything to add, this can be hashed out at school collaboration. CHCCS Board Member Jamezetta Bedford said that both school systems support reflecting reality and that schools are very much overcrowded when you count these pre-k classrooms. CHCCS Chair Brownstein said there is not a version of SAPFO with and without these classrooms. She said this would give a better view of the implications. She said this may be needed in the school collaboration meetings. Chair Jacobs said the Board is very supportive of Pre-K, but there is also not a mandate for the county to provide that space. He said if Pre-K is moved into the SAPFO numbers, then the schools start "bumping" into capacity issues and CAPS. He said he is skeptical at this point.