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8 Carrboro Arts & Innovation Center("CAIC) Working Group Update In the spring of 2015, an organizational meeting was held with the elected and appointed chairpersons of Orange County, Carrboro, the Arts Center and Kidzu, along with the organizations' managers and executive directors to collaboratively explore the merits of co- locating and sharing a set of spaces that would serve and benefit the County's Southern Branch Library, Carrboro, the Arts Center and the Kidzu museum within the central cultural area of Carrboro. A steering committee consisting of County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Carrboro Manager David Andrews, ArtsCenter Chair Don Rose, ArtsCenter Board Member Phil Szostak, and Kidzu Board Chair Betsy Bennett has been formed to guide this effort and report findings and recommendations to the respective governing boards. A technical committee consisting of Orange County Asset Management Services Director Jeff Thompson, Carrboro Planning Director Trish McGuire, ArtsCenter Interim Executive Director Noel James, and Kidzu Interim Executive Director Lisa Van Deman staff has been formed to advise the steering committee in its work. The work of these groups will follow the general guidelines of the "Pathway to a Proposal" proposed by Carrboro Alderperson Bethany Chaney during an early spring Carrboro Board meeting. The Steering and Technical Committees met on June 8, 2015 to discuss tasks and guidelines with the "Pathway to a Proposal". The group agreed on its collective charge and has charted a course to move forward with due diligence on four sites: 1. 203 S. Greensboro Street site 2. The current ArtsCenter site 3. The former Fire & Hearth Site 4. The "Armadillo Grill Parking" site (the site previously proposed by the CAIC group earlier in 2015) The group agreed to collaborate on a co-location visioning plan through the summer of 2015, develop business plans focusing on potential co-location synergies, and—depending upon the summer's work-- be in position to consider investing together on required due diligence that will continue to examine and potentially build a co-location development case. Attached is a PowerPoint deck of slides that facilitated the group's discussions on June 8, 2015 and captures the consensus and basis for moving forward with the collaboration. The PowerPoint deck is framed upon the "Pathway to a Proposal" written by Alderperson Bethany Chaney. The comments highlighted in red represent the Steering Committee feedback and points of general group agreement for going forward work.