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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 31, 2005 <br />Action Ager <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: School Capital Funding Priorities <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager/Budget PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />3/14/05 OCS Superintendent Letter <br />3/08/05 CHCGS Staff Memo <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />John Link or Rod Visser, 245-2300 <br />Donna Dean, 245-2151 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive reports from the two school systems outlining their anticipated ten <br />year capital funding priorities. <br />BACKGROUND: On several occasions in recent months, and particularly during the annual <br />planning retreat in January 2005, the Board of Commissioners stressed the importance of <br />evaluating proposed County and School capital projects for the 2005-15 Capital Investment <br />Plan (CIP) cycle on the basis of their relative priorities.. The Manager and staff discussed this <br />expectation during regular monthly meetings in January and February 2005 with the School <br />Superintendents and staffs. <br />Bath school systems have developed and transmitted to County staff lists of their capital <br />fianding priorities for the next ten years. Presumably, these priorities will be reflected in the <br />requested CIPs that both school systems will present to the BOCC later in Spring 2005. Those <br />CIPs will be developed based on the ten year estimated capital funding allocations that will be <br />determined after the BOCC reviews and approves an approach for implementing the Board's <br />recently adopted policy related to a 60-40 targeted capital funding split between School and <br />County capital projects. <br />The County's recommended capital funding priorities will be developed based on the Board's <br />consideration and discussion elsewhere on this March 31 agenda of the County's space needs <br />update. Those priorities will be incorporated in the Manager's Recommended 2005-15 CIP, <br />tentatively slated for presentation to the BOCC in April 2005. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no direct financial impact associated with this item at this <br />time. However, these priorities will shape the multi-million dollar 2005-15 School Capital <br />Investment Plans that will be developed, presented, and reviewed during the next three months. <br />