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<br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 21, 2000 <br />Action Agen a <br />Item No. ~- q <br />SUBJECT: Community Colleae Task Force <br />DEPARTMENT: County Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />County Manager <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Matching Requirements Table Moses Carey, Jr., Chair <br />Task Force Report - John Link, 245-2300 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough .732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Durham 6887331 <br /> Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive the report of the Community College Task Force. - <br />BACKGROUND: The Community College Task Force has met four times since March 2000. <br />Reports from earlier task forces and information from area community colleges have been <br />reviewed. Focus group sessions have been held to determine the interest of the citizens of <br />Orange County in establishing a satellite campus of Durham Technical Community College. <br />After several months of research, the Task Force recommends to-the Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners that a satellite campus of Durham Technical Community College be established <br />in Orange County. A satellite campus would: <br />• serve the more than 6500 residents who take one or more classes at a community <br />college each year, and <br />•;• offer a gateway to the future for residents by providing a more comprehensive, <br />centralized location for adult training and education services in the-County.. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: Staff `s understanding from the Administration at Durham Tech is that <br />the Statewide bands for higher education recently approved by North Carolina voters included <br />earmarking of $4,000,000 far an Orange County Satellite Campus of Durham Technical <br />Community College. As noted in the attached table of matching requirements, Orange County <br />must provide a 50 percent match of State bond funds, which means that each State dollar must <br />be matched, dollar-for-dollar, with local funds. The State legislation authorizing the higher <br />education bond referendum provided that counties have through June 2006 to complete the <br />matching requirement. There can be an "in-kind" component to the match. For example, <br />Orange County would get same matching credit by providing the land far any satellite campus. <br />The County's share of the funding could came from any combination of sources, which might <br />include, but are not necessarily limited to: <br />