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1 <br />1 <br />Attachment 2 <br />2 <br />3 <br />DRAFTMINUTES <br />4 <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />5 <br />Budget Work Session <br />6 <br />April 9, 2015 <br />7 <br />7:00 p.m. <br />8 <br />9 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a work session on Thursday, April <br />10 <br />9, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. <br />11 <br />12 <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT <br />: Chair McKee and Commissioners Mia Burroughs, <br />13 <br />Barry Jacobs, Bernadette Pelissier, Renee Price and Penny Rich <br />14 <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT <br />:Mark Dorosin <br />15 <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT <br />: <br />16 <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT <br />: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley and Clerk to the Board <br />17 <br />Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br />18 <br />19 <br />Chair McKee called the meeting to order at 7:02p.m. <br />20 <br />21 <br />1.Review and Discussion of the Manager’s Recommended Fiscal Year2015-2020 <br />22 <br />Capital Investment Plan (CIP) – <br />School Capital Projects <br />23 <br />Paul Laughton, Orange County Finance Administrative Services, said this was the first <br />24 <br />opportunity to discuss the CIP in length, with a second work session taking place on May 14, <br />25 <br />2015.He reviewed the following background information from the abstract: <br />26 <br />27 <br />Capital Investment Plan –Overview: <br />The Fiscal Year 2015 to 2020 CIP includes County <br />28 <br />Projects, School Projects, Proprietary Projects, and Special Revenue Projects. The Proprietary <br />29 <br />Projects include Water and Sewer, Solid Waste Enterprise Fund, and Sportsplex projects. The <br />30 <br />Special Revenue Projects include Economic Development and School related projects funded <br />31 <br />from the Article 46 (1/4 cent) Sales Tax proceeds. The Article 46 Sales Tax was approved by <br />32 <br />the voters in the November 2011 election, and became effective April 1, 2012. <br />33 <br />34 <br />Background <br />:The CIP has been prepared anticipating continued sloweconomic growth of <br />35 <br />between 1 to 2 percentannually over the next five years. Many of the projects in the CIP will <br />36 <br />rely on debt financing to fund the projects.Tonight’s work session discussion will be focused <br />37 <br />on School Capital projects, County Capital projects associated with the Space Study discussion <br />38 <br />(Agenda item #2), County Capital projects associated with the Community Centers discussion <br />39 <br />(Agenda item #3), and Park Capital projects. <br />40 <br />41 <br />School Capital projects –Highlights <br />42 <br />Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools(CHCCS) projectsinclude$750,000 in Preliminary <br />43 <br />Planning funds in Year 1 (Fiscal Year 2015 to2016) to allow the school system to be “shovel <br />44 <br />ready” for a project or projects after a successful Bond Referendum; funds would be <br />45 <br />reimbursed from the approved Bond Referendum funds. Based on the Schools Adequate Public <br />46 <br />Facilities Ordinance (SAPFO) most recent November15, 2014 projections, the followingnew <br />47 <br />schools/additions would be needed in Years 6-10: Middle School Number 5to open in Fiscal <br />48 <br />Year 2023 to 2024 (Note: the addition of 104 new seats in Fiscal Year2014-15 from the <br />49 <br />construction of the Science wing at Culbreth Middle School delayed the need for additional <br />50 <br />capacity at the middle school level by three years); Elementary Number 12to open in Fiscal <br /> <br />