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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 18, 2008 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 4- <br />SUBJECT: Approval of Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools Use of 2007-08 Lottery Funds for <br />Conversion of Lincoln Center Pottery Shop to Classroom Space <br />DEPARTMENT: Budget PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Attachment 1. Lincoln Center Pottery (INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Shop Conversion Project Donna Coffey, (919) 245-2151 <br />Ordinance <br />PURPOSE: To approve Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools use of 2007-08 Lottery Funds for <br />conversion of Lincoln Center Pottery Shop to classroom space and authorize expenditures for <br />the project via the attached Lincoln Center Pottery Shop Conversion Project Ordinance. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />On February 7, 2008, the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools' Board of Education approved a <br />plan to use a portion of its current year lottery funds to create new classroom space for the <br />Phoenix Academy and Pre-K classes by renovating current space at Lincoln Center. During the <br />February 12, 2008 budget/capital work session, members from the Chapel Hill Carrboro City <br />Schools Board of Education informed Commissioners of its intent to move forward with the <br />space conversion. <br />The excerpt below (italicized) is from the February 7, 2008 Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools <br />Board of Education agenda: <br />The Board of Education has previously requested an expansion of Phoenix Academy. <br />The Academy is presently housed in three mobile units with a total square footage of <br />2, 880. An expansion of Phoenix could be accomplished at Lincoln Center by renovating <br />the pottery shop and the two existing Pre-K classrooms. <br />1. The lease on the Lincoln Center gym and pottery shop has expired and the Town has <br />been informed that the pottery shop will be needed for educational purposes. It will <br />be available the first of April. <br />2. With the opening of Morris Grove, enrollments across the District will be reduced. <br />Scroggs Elementary is projected to have 583 students, right at their 1 to 21 capacity, <br />without counting mobiles. With that capacity, the availability of two designed Pre-K <br />classrooms returns. Membership growth could be handled by the mobile classrooms <br />