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RES-2014-056 Resolution Supporting Community Use of School Facilities for Recreation
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.. 5 <br />RES- 2014 -056 <br />RESOLUTION <br />A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING COMMUNITY USE OF SCHOOL FACILITIES FOR <br />RECREATION <br />WHEREAS, many public schools in Orange County contain athletic and recreation facilities <br />such as playing fields, gymnasiums and other similar facilities or areas; and <br />WHEREAS, these facilities are constructed with public fiends primarily for the use of students <br />and athletic groups at the respective schools but also may be (and have been to some degree) <br />available when not in use by these groups for community or organized athletics and recreation; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, many school systems and local governments around the country, including several <br />in North Carolina, have successfully developed understandings and agreements to allow for use <br />of school athletic and recreation facilities for athletic and recreation programs operated by local <br />governments for the public;* and <br />WHEREAS, in Orange County, the vast majority of participants in these athletic leagues and <br />programs are also students in the respective school districts; and <br />WHEREAS, encouraging participation in athletic leagues and youth recreation activities <br />promotes healthy lifestyles and works to combat childhood obesity, develop healthy exercise <br />habits for a lifetime, and promotes teamwork and cooperation; and <br />WHEREAS, both the Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools have <br />recently completed reviews and/or changes to their facility use .policies which in part served to <br />open new avenues for usage for community athletic and recreationd activities; and <br />WHEREAS, it is in the mutual interest of the school systems and the local governments to <br />develop mechanisms that allow for continued and expanded usage of such facilities, when not in <br />use by the schools, to avoid duplication or otherwise unnecessary capital improvements funded <br />by public dollars: <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and <br />Hillsborough, the city of Mebane, Orange County, and the Chapel"Hill- Carrboro City Schools <br />and the Orange County Schools pledge jointly to pursue and allow mutually- berieficial usage of <br />recreational facilities at the schools by local government youth athletics and recreation, within <br />the framework of school usage needs. <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the parties above agree that usage of such facilities, should <br />be subject to a minimum level of usage fees recognizing the population being served as school <br />system students, and that this level of usage fee be determined either by recognition in the <br />schools facility fee schedule or by interlocal agreement. <br />This, the ` day of _ , 201_. <br />
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