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0363 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action AgAn <br /> Item No. <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting rate: February 16, 1988 <br /> SUBJECT: <br /> Capital Request from Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools <br /> DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Ken Chavious <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBER: EXT. 496 <br /> Excerpt from CIP Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> School Capital Reserve Fund Chapel Hill - 968- 1 <br /> Mebane - 227-2032031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider a request from Chapel Hill-Carrboro School system regarding <br /> capital funding for implementation of the overcrowding proprosal approved by the <br /> Board of Education. <br /> BACKGROUND: On February 1, 1988 the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board approved <br /> recommendations designed to eliminate the problem of overcrowding in the system's <br /> elementary schools. The recommendations consist of two major capital needs; construction <br /> of a four-classroom pod at Culbreth Junior High and purchase of four mobile classrooms. <br /> According to school administrative staff, the estimated cost of these projects is <br /> $410,000.00. (Four class-room pod-$270,000.00 and mobile units $140,000.00) <br /> There are two possible funding mechanisms that can be used for the construction of the <br /> classrooms. <br /> 1. Public School Building Capital Fund - $314,170.00 balance as of January 1988 . <br /> 2. Reallocation of funds previously approved in school capital Long Range Plan <br /> for Fiscal Year 1988-89. These funds would not be available until July 1,1988. <br /> Approved projects for 1988-89 in the Long Range Plan total $915,000.00. The reallocation <br /> proposed by the School Board would consist of $250,000.00 from the Chapel Hill High <br /> School Cafeteria Expansion and $20,000.00 from Chapel Hill High Media _Center to the <br /> Middle School Expansion (new project) <br /> According to School Officials funding for the mobile classrooms can be accomplished by <br /> the use of the recurring. capital outlay appropriation in Fiscal Year 1988-89. Orange <br /> County Capital policies require an annual appropriation of $750,000.00 to recurring <br /> capital for the next' five years. <br /> RECOMMENDATION: <br /> 1. Approve Option 2'for classroom construction - Reallocation of funds previously <br /> approved. <br /> 2. Reaffirm to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board the commitment of $750,000.00 <br /> in recurring capital outlay for Fiscal Year 1988-89. <br />