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• O 2 N E COUNTY 047 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda AC.CION AAGENDA ITEi ABSTRACT Item ho. Up MEE.C:L1i'G DATE 2/4/85 • Subject: Study commission on merger of Orange County School systems • Depa t: Board of Commissioners I , Public Hearing: yes y no Attachment(s) : emotion Contact: Don Willhoit No Phone Number: 132-8181 PURPOSE: To establish a study commission to consider the impacts of merger of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro and the Orange County school systems, NEED: During recent sessions of the General Assembly, there • have been various discussions of the desirability of consolidating school districts . There have been pro- posals to require consolidations to provide a maximum of one system per county or to limit State funding to one administrative unit per county. • The 1984 Session of the General Assembly passed the Public School Reform Act which commits the legislature to clarify funding responsibilities and directed the State Board of Education to develop a Basic Education Program. The State Board has produced a proposed Basic Program which has been accepted by the Education Policy Council of the General Assembly and will be presented to the 1985 Session for adoption. A task force of the Education Policy Council drafting proposed legislation for the 1985 Session has included a provision that would prohibit counties from providing supplemental funds for instructional . programs until it can be demonstrated that all school building needs have been met. Each school system has indicated that it will need an additional elementary school within the next five years or sm. If the County had only one school system; the additional classrooms could likely be phased in over a longer time period and thus make it easier for the .County to fund the additional classrooms.