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00'795 <br /> uuo,-J <br /> professional staff to student ratio and the children were closely supervised., <br /> Ms. Scott responded to audience questioning saying that perhaps one or two <br /> children would be from Chatham County,the remainder coming from Orange County. <br /> She said this is a classroom therapy setting. <br /> Mr. Bill Baxter said the deadline for obligating the money for renovation <br /> or a new building is June 30, 1982, otherwise the funding may be lost. <br /> Ms. Scott said the Mental Health Center had been searching for a site for <br /> six months. <br /> Mr. Caldwell, of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board, said that the <br /> School Board had deeded the property to the County for the County to use as <br /> appropriate. Whatever use is made of the property should be conducive and com- <br /> patible with the community. He said the feeling from the schools is that the <br /> cafeteria building was committed to Mental Health. He also felt the County <br /> could have a tax office at Northside to benefit the Seniors. <br /> Ms. Belinda Jones, representing the Board of Directors of the Community <br /> School for People Under Six, presented a petition with about 800 signatures <br /> requesting that the School not lose space in the building. She said the school <br /> bridged the gap between black and white. She also said that they accepted <br /> low income applicants; she said of all the children there (about 50) only nine <br /> families pay full tuition. Other day care centers pay little or no utility costs: <br /> . _ <br /> Ms. Jones said if the space allocated to the Community School is reduced, twenty <br /> children would be eliminated at the outside and nine at least. The option allocating <br /> the cafeteria building to the School is very "appealing" to the School; however, <br /> they do not have money for renovation or moving equipment. (See Petition #4 in <br /> Clerk's permanent file) <br /> Ms. Barbara Green7 said that 53% of the women were employed outside the <br /> home. Major concerns of these women were: I) quality of care for their child- <br /> ren; 2) cost of the care; 3) and the proximity to the homes of such care. She <br /> added that the Community School was very important; that it has a quality staff <br /> and environment. <br /> Ms. Patti Paddock, Director of the Community School, asked the County to <br /> maintain the current space allocation. She then provided some statistics on the <br /> children served. <br /> Ms. Susan Cobb, a resident of the area, spoke to the expected traffic <br /> in-flow to the area. <br /> • <br /> . „ <br /> ' * <br /> * ' <br />