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25 <br />Orange County goazd of Commissioners <br />Page 3 <br />September 29, 2000 <br />permit residential growth; the County must fund sufficient <br />facilities and the schools must educate the children resulting <br />from that residential.growth. <br />-The only sound approach to balancing school facilities and <br />'residential growth student generata.on would be to regularly <br />chart the school children "generated" by growth projections to <br />see what school Construction will be required. This can be <br />compared with a fiscal limiting chart. If the twa charted lines <br />"cross," work needs to br? done. More money must be found for <br />school cons~.ruction or County-wide growth limiting land use <br />regulations must be implemented. <br />To what degree is school Capacity affected by student- <br />teacher ratio decisions? <br />In the context of an adequate public school facilities <br />program, any student-teacher. ratio change that changes school <br />Capacity must be approved by the schools That <br />is, if the certificates can be impacted by student-teacher ratio <br />decisions of the school boards,. the County must be on board. <br />That is not to say that the schools cannot .create their own <br />teacher-pupil ratios. However, those unilateral school board <br />decisions cannot .affect the adequate public school facilities <br />program until and unless the County is on board with the <br />changes. And, whether the County is on board on school board <br />..approved student-teacher ratios beyond the adequate public <br />school facilities .program is, in my opinion, in Orange County, a <br />political one. On the other hand, the County cannot arbitrarily <br />say no to school capacity changes that are the result of <br />teacher-student ratio changes that are mandated at State and <br />federal levels, <br />IAA t~~ <br />This "issue" doss nat prompt a question. Rather it prompts <br />a comment. There are several places in the draft ordinance that <br />need .some."wordsmithing." Particularly the section dealing with <br />exemptiorza, the section dealing with appeals of denials of a <br />CAPS, particularly the part about the governing board making a <br />"recommendation," and the section of the MoU related to <br />