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Attachment 3 — 2113106 Facilitator's Meeting Notes Attachment 4 — 3120106 Facilitator's Meeting Notes Attachment 5 — 4103106 Facilitator's Meeting Notes In May 1996, the Board of Commissioners adopted school construction standards for elementary and middle schools in Orange County. High School construction standards were approved in April 1999. Two separate School Facilities Task Forces that convened in 2000 and in 2002 identified a number of issues related to both sets of standards that required clarification and or updating (e.g. baseline estimates of per square foot cost, an appropriate inflation factor, percentage of project budget that should be set aside for contingency, etc). In follow up to the 2006 information sharing meetings noted above, the Collaboration Work Group will consider the input it has received and provide direction to staff that will lead to revised school construction standards, to be drafted over the summer by staff. The target is to have proposed updates to school construction standards available for consideration by the Board of Commissioners in Fall 2006. Those revised standards may shape the discussions about capital funding that will be needed to construct the new school facilities identified in the 2006 -16 Capital Investment Plan. Relating to discussion held at the April 10 County Commissioners meeting, the BOCC requested that the County's smart growth principles be included on the April 25 joint work session. A copy of those principles, as well as a copy of the CHCCS 9040 High Performance Building Design Policy, is attached for reference, as both relate directly to school construction standards considerations. Attachment 6 - Orange County Smart Growth Attributes Attachment 7 - CHCCS Policy Code: 9040 High Performance Building Design b. School Funding and Budget Drivers All three governing boards identified matters related to school funding as an important topic to discuss at this joint work session. Time has been reserved for both Superintendents to present information about the major budget drivers affecting their recommendations for funding levels to be requested of the County by their respective boards. Attachment 8 — OCS Local Current Expense 2006 -07 Projected Budget Attachment 9 — CHCCS Superintendent's Budget Message 2006 -07 The County Manager will also present information about anticipated budget drivers for County operating and capital budgets for 2006 -07 and beyond — both school and non - school related. There are potential education budget impacts not only from elements identified specifically in the Superintendents' and Manager's recommended budgets (e.g. teacher pay increases; new school start up costs; changes in student membership; school debt service; full implementation of the BOCC's school /county capital funding policy; and funding for an impact fee update study), but also from sources beyond the control of either school system or the County. Some of these external factors have the impact of unfunded mandates. Initiatives to monitor include, but are certainly not limited to: teacher pay raises proposed by the Governor; any move to fund only one local school administrative unit in each county; student- teacher ratio and class -size reduction requirements; and possible redirection of Public School Building Fund moneys earmarked for local school construction.