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y 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No =X-F ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: January 17, 1995 SUBJECT: School Redistricting Demographic Study ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT County Manager PUBLIC HEARING YES NO x -------------------------------- ------------------------------- ATTACHMENT(S) INFORMATION CONTACT Draft Agreements (2 ) Rod Visser, ext 2300 Technical Description TELEPHONE NUMBER Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Mebane 227-2031 Durham 688-7331 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PURPOSE: To consider approving the County's participation, along with the two school systems, in a demographic study of student population growth; and to consider an appropriation from Contingency to fund the County's share of the cost of the study. BACKGROUND: The Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools plan to enter into an agreement with OR/Ed Laboratories, Inc. to assist both systems in school facility siting and attendance area planning. The County could enter into a separate agreement with OR/Ed, that would incorporate by reference the work specified to be accomplished in the agreement between OR/Ed and the two school systems. The cost of the study will be $25,000, proposed to be split evenly between OCS, CHCCS, and the County. The study would identify where student population growth would occur over the next ten years, based on historical trends and land use patterns. The study would assist in planning for new school facilities, optimal district boundaries, and optimal transportation routes. As specific examples, the study will assist OCS with decision making about the location for the new elementary school planned for 1998 or 1999; and will assist CHCCS with redistricting decisions that will take effect with the 1996-97 school year, taking into consideration the new high school and elementary school. The OR/Ed Laboratories study methodology has been employed successfully in Pitt, Johnston, Onslow, and Guilford Counties within the last several years. RECOMMENDATION: The Manager recommends that the Board approve the agreement in concept, subject to final review by the County Attorney, and authorize the Manager to execute the agreement; further, that the Board approve an appropriation of $8,334 from Contingency to cover the County's share of the cost of the study.