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.L <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 20, 1990 <br />SUBJECT: School Funding Equity Models <br />DEPARTMENT County Manager <br />ATTACHMENT(S) <br />None <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No L--gy-A <br />PUBLIC HEARING YES NO -X' <br />INFORMATION CONTACT <br />Manager's Office, ext 2300 <br />Budget Office, ext 2450 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBER <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Mebane 227 -2031 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />PURPOSE: <br />To receive information about the potential outcomes of various school <br />funding scenarios. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The Board of Commissioners has been concerned about the issue of school <br />funding equity for several years. At the September 4, 1990, meeting, <br />the Board asked that the staffs of the two school systems work with the <br />County Manager and his staff to consider the possible impacts of a <br />countywide special district tax for school funding. <br />The staffs have consulted and met regularly since then to develop and <br />discuss a variety of scenarios for school funding, with emphasis on <br />their estimated impacts on tax rates and progress towards equity. The <br />County staff will present four or five versions of the equity model so <br />that the Board may consider the implications for future policy <br />direction. The staffs of the two school systems were scheduled to make <br />similar presentations to their respective Boards of Education on <br />Monday, November 19, 1990. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): <br />Receive as information; consider the subject as a discussion item for <br />the Commissioners' retreat scheduled for December 8, 1990. <br />