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initiatives would have to be revised to reflect whatever action the BOCC may take to adjust <br />the County's funding allocated to the project. <br />The Board has indicated its intention to discuss at the January 22, 2005 annual planning <br />retreat the implications of various school-related initiatives -such as Educational <br />Excellence, Efficiency, and Collaboration - in the larger context of measures the Board may <br />consider to promote greater funding equity between the two school systems in the future. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: Precise financial impacts cannot be determined, but possible changes in <br />projected building capacity and projected growth in student membership far the next ten years <br />will have impacts on future operating and capital budgets measured in the tens of millions of <br />dollars. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Administration recommends that the Board: <br />• Approve the November 15, 2004 actual student membership numbers; <br />• Receive the information about 10-year student projection averages; <br />• Approve the building capacity figures based on the individual school building capacity <br />numbers for both school systems at the levels certified for 2003-04; <br />• Indicate the Commissioners' intention to reallocate, as necessary and appropriate, <br />funding from the previously planned issuance of $12.8 million in debt for CHCCS <br />Elementary Schcol #10 to address cost overruns for CHCCS High School #3, OCS <br />Middle School #3, and other priority County capital projects as determined by the BOCC; <br />• Direct staff to revise the 2004-14 CIP to include a funding plan that would provide far the <br />construction of CHCCS Elementary #10 along a timeline consistent with the need for <br />new school space as identified in the updated SAPFO ten-year student membership <br />projections (i.e. opening for the 2009-10 academic year). <br />