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Mr. Copeland said that there is not enough youth recreation programming for rural Orange County. He asked if the Advisory Council had any plans for addressing this, should OCS make its facilities more available for non - school community recreation activities. Mr. English said that the Advisory Council would want to expand youth baseball in particular, and other recreation programs for all rural residents. Mr. Hartkopf said that OCS needs to have more dialogue with the County's recreation and parks department. He explained that OCS needed to raise its facility rental rates because utility costs for the schools were significant. Doris Murrell Chair Carrboro Recreation and Parks Commission Ms. Murrell listed the many ways that Carrboro recreation programs use CHCCS school facilities, including: • Chapel Hill High football field for youth games, • McDougle Middle School for basketball, and infrequently the school's music room for music camp, • Culbreth Middle School, Phillips Middle School, Frank Porter Graham Elementary, Estes Elementary, and Sewell Middle School between October and March for youth basketball, • Carrboro Elementary year round for its stage and classrooms • Carrboro generally uses school facilities Mondays through Fridays after 6:0o PM, Saturday mornings through the late afternoons, and Sundays in the afternoons. During the following months, the following hours were used and fees paid to CHCCS by Carrboro for non - school community recreation programs (fees incurred range from $7.61 /hour to $15 /hour, plus a $30 per site processing fee): • July 2005, 96 hours, $730 • August 2005, 26 hours, $198 • September 2005, 4o hours, $660 • October 2005, 99 hours, $1575 • November 2005, 319 hours, $4875 • December 2005, 234 hours, $3520 • January 2006, 441 hours, $3540 • February 2oo6, 382 hours, $5732 • March 20o6,162 hours, $2400 • Some of the costs going from the Town to CHCCS are offset by the district's use of Town facilities. For example, McDougle uses the Town's tennis courts for practice and games, and periodically CHCCS uses the Century Center, County /Schools Collaboration Meeting (April 8, 2005)