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Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools Lincoln Center, Merritt Mill Road Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516 The Board of Education Telephone: 919/967 -8211 Ext. 226 FAX: 933 -4560 August 31, 1990 Moses Carey, Jr., Chair Orange County Board of Commissioners 106 East Margaret Lane Hillsborough, NC 27278 Dear Moses: The Chapel Hill- Carrboro City Board of Education appreciates the opportunity to respond to the proposal to have a countywide school tax referendum in November. We are pleased that the Board of Commissioners are considering this method of implementation of equal funding. During our discussion, the Board of Education reached consensus on the questions you posed to us. 1. We believe that the purpose of the tax should be for expansion items in our annual budget request. In this way the tax would be for improvement of program and services with tax payers not being asked to pay more for more of the same. Long -range planning would also be improved and more realistic if the tax was designated for expansion of programs and services to students. 2. We believe that the revenues should be distributed on the ADM formula as are the present current expense funds. This ensures that each child in the county receives an equal amount no matter which school system he /she attends. 3. We believe that although the time allotted to educate the citizens of Orange County is brief, we, as board members, are willing to devote our time to the information activities necessary to pass the referendum. It was suggested that the citizen groups which formulated the bond package and helped educate the public on that vote be reconstituted to provide the information to the voters of Orange County. 4. We also agreed that it might be useful to keep the cap on the tax at a low figure.