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9 Mr., John M. Link, Jr. Page 2 December 8, 1995 i Oran County School District Impact Fee Trust can be made ! available for the capital expenses necessary to bring this new elementary school on line with a minor Impact Fee Ordinance amendment. The Impact Fee Ordinance contains, in Section 5C, a 4 limitation on the expenditure of funds from the "public school' ; imppact. fee trust accounts. " These funds may only be spent asp follows i Funds shall be used for capital costs associated with th4 construction of new public school space, including new ! 'buildings or additions to existing buildings where the expansion is related to new residential growth. Such i capital' coste include actual building construction; deli , engineering, and/or legal fees; land acquisition and sit i development; equipment and furnishings; infrastructure improvements; and/or debt service payments and payments ! under leases through which to finance such costs. i Arguably, the furnishing of and renovations to the old Stanba�k is ; Middle School could be characterized as "additions to existing.. buildings" or ^infrastructure improvements. " A more likely l int orpretation, however, is that they would not be either andl ' thit ;additions mean new classrooms and other building additions and infrastructure improvements means water and sewer type ' improvements. This is an easy fix, however. The first sentence # of the indented paragraph above can be amended to read: Funds shall be used for capital costs associated with thii. construction of new public school space, including new 4 buildings, additions to existing buildings or otherwise converting existing buildings into new vublic school space where the expansion is related to new residential growth, By:adding the underlined language above, the County can solve the i iimwd ate school conversion problem and be in a position to handle similar school capital projects needed to accomplish expansion of school facilities where the expansion is related, to new residentiai growth. The ordinance amendment could be done at any time as i directed by the County Commissioners and following a public hearing. I can work with Marvin on the public hearing notice, on short notice. As to your proposed letter to Dr. Harrison, I think you should mention the need for a minor Impact Fee Ordinance amendment to accomplish funding the new school renovation costs with the impact fee and the need for Board of County Commissioner approval of that amendment.