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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 14, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~- 6 <br />SUBJECT: 10-Year Student Membership Projections and Schools Adequate Public <br />Facilities Ordinance (SAPFO) Implications <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager/Budget/Planning/ <br />Attorney <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />SAPFO Membership Capacity Calculation <br />and Change Request Forms <br />10-Year Student Membership Projection <br />Tables/Graphs <br />09/24/04 Manager Memo re: New School <br />Projects <br />11/23/04 Attorney Letter on K-3 Class Size <br />Chart -County's Annual Debt Service <br />Projections <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />Donna Dean, ext 2151 <br />Craig Benedict, ext 2592 <br />Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider approval of November 15, 2004 actual membership and capacity <br />numbers for the Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools; to receive 10- <br />year student membership projections developed through agreed-upon models; and to consider <br />reallocating a portion of currently programmed debt issuance to address anticipated cost <br />overruns in various critical school and County capital projects. <br />BACKGROUND: In 2003, the County, the two school systems, and the Towns of Carrboro, <br />Chapel Hill, and Hillsborough entered into mutual agreements that created a system of Schools <br />Adequate Public Facilities ordinances, SAPFO was designed to ensure that new growth within <br />the County's two school districts occurs at a pace that allows Orange County and the school <br />districts to provide adequate school facilities to serve the children who will be living within new <br />residential developments.. <br />SAPFO Machinery <br />The SAPFO MOUs (Memorandums of Understanding) provide that the Board of County <br />Commissioners shall approve the School Districts' November 15 membership and capacity <br />numbers within fifteen days after receiving the numbers from the School Districts, Both School <br />Districts have submitted their membership and capacity numbers, The actual student <br />membership figures as of November 15 each year are run through five separate student <br />membership projection models by a Technical Advisory Committee (SAPFOTAC) comprised of <br />representatives of the County, Towns, and school systems. The average of the five models <br />becomes the basis for programming the construction of additional school space to <br />