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r. A RESOLUTION BY THE SCHOOLS AND LAND USE COUNCILS ~ (SLUG) TO RECONIIl~iEND AND TRANSMIT THE SCHOOLS ADEQUATE PUBLIC FACILITIES ORDINANCE (SCHOOLS APFO) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING AND ORDINANCE WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners and municipal governing boards make land use, zoning, and development decisions that can increase the numbers of school children; and WHEREAS, the Orange County Schools Board of Education and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education are responsible for school policy and school buildings; and '~, WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners with approval of the other jurisdictions has established Schools and Land Use Councils (one for each school district) to advise on issues concerning growth and land use issues relating to schools; and WHEREAS, the Schools and Land Use Councils are charged with developing a coordinated plan for approving developments, accounting for the impact of the developments on school capacity, siting schools, and-building schools to meet demonstrated need in a timely manner; and WHEREAS, the Schools and Land Use Councils (SLUG) are composed of elected representatives from the Orange County Commissioners, Canrboro Board of Aldermen, Chapel Hill Town Council, Hillsborough Town Board of Commissioners, Chapel Hill- . Carrboro City Schools Board of Education, and Orange County Schools Board of Education; and WHEREAS, the SLUG has met on primarily a monthly basis to develop and review a Schools APFO since April of 1999; and WHEREAS, the SLUG referred the development of legal and technical matters and parameters for policy decisions to a ~vorkgroup of attorneys and planning director and school representatives from all member agencies and a draft was submitted to the SLUG; and WHEREAS, the various aspects of a Schools APFO was explained to each of the elected bodies in the latter part of 1999 early 2000 by the Orange County Planning Department where questions and answers were explored; and WHEREAS, On March 27 and 30, 2000 joint meetings with school districts and Assembly of Governments were held to further elaborate on the implications of a Schools APFO and receive direction to pursue finalization of the Memorandum of Understanding and ordinance from the SLUG; and WHEREAS, the SLUG finds the Memorandum of Understanding and ordinance to be supportive of the goals and responsibilities of the councils and strongly believes the ordinance to be in the best interests of the community;