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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 1, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Polic on Plannin and Fundin School Ca ital Projects <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Attachment 1. Policy on Planning and <br />Funding School Capital <br />Projects as of 11 /01 /00 <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />John Link or Rod Visser, ext. 2300 <br />Donna Dean, extension 2151 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: Ta adapt a "Policy on Planning and Funding Schaal Capital Projects". <br />BACKGROUND: At the March 29, 2000 CIP work session, the Board expressed its intent to <br />communicate to both ~ school boards its expectations regarding communication and review <br />processes that should be associated with schaol capital projects. Staff drafted a proposed <br />policy document to define the Board's expectations and presented it to the Board in April 2000. <br />Both schaol boards expressed a number of concerns about the draft policy and requested that <br />the Board refrain from adopting any such policy until formal dialogue among the boards <br />occurred. Over the past few months, staff has received comments from the Board of <br />Commissioners, both School Boards and Superintendents regarding the April 2000 version of <br />the policy. <br />At the October 17, 2000 BOCC meeting, staff presented the revised policy that incorporated all <br />changes made since the original April 2000 version of the policy. While the Board approved the <br />policy's concept, they asked staff to clarify a few areas of the policy and bring the final version <br />of the policy to the Board at the November 1, 2000 meeting for affirmation. The list below <br />outlines BOCC comments from October 17. <br />Concept/Pre-Planning Phase (Page 1 of the policy) -provide further explanation or <br />examples regarding what elements are included in this phase <br />Project Updates (Page 1, second bullet) -Indicate that the Superintendents provide <br />written project updates to the County Manager and he, in turn, provides, in writing, <br />this information to the Board of Commissioners <br />Urban Service Boundaries (Page 2, third bullet) - "The availability of public utilities at <br />or in close proximity to the site" should now read "The availability of public utilities <br />within the urban services boundaries" <br />