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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 7, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. j(7 -Q <br />SUBJECT: Presentation of 2005-2015 School and County Capital Investment Plans (CIP) <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager/Budget <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />2005-15 Manager's Recommended CIP <br />(fo be distributed under separate cover, <br />on or before 06/07/05) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Jahn Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />Donna Dean. ext 2151 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive a presentation of Orange County's Recommended 2005-2015 Capital <br />Investment Plans. <br />BACKGROUND: The Gounty s Capital Investment Plan (GIP) serves as a planning tool that <br />provides a mechanism to forecast long-range future capital needs for both school districts and <br />the County. Orange County's long-range plan covers aten-year period. Annually, staff and the <br />Board consider many factors as they update the CIP, including funding availability, newly <br />identified BOCC priorities, and student membership projections. <br />As the Board reviews the recommended long-range plan, there is opportunity to discuss <br />projects and adjust the proposed plan, if necessary, before adoption in June. It is important to <br />note that while the BOCC formally adopts along-range plan each year, the CIP is a "living <br />document" that the Board can amend at any time. Each year, staff and the Board of County <br />Commissioners take the opportunity to re-assess previously identified needs to determine if <br />future needs remain the same as those outlined in past approved plans, or to determine if <br />needs and priorities have changed and accordingly, that revisions to the previous CIP are in <br />order. <br />In November 2004, the BOCC adopted a policy statement that indicated the Board's intent to <br />allocate 60 percent of capital funds for the ten year period beginning in 2005 to school projects, <br />and 40 percent of those capital funds for Gounty projects. Following several months of <br />analysis, review, and deliberation, the BOCC on May 5, 200.5 approved Option 2 as the <br />implementation approach to the County's 60-40 capital funding policy. <br />Both school systems and County staff have developed proposed allocations among various <br />projects of capital revenues anticipated to become available during the next ten years, based on <br />Option 2 funding estimates.. County staff will make a presentation reflecting major elements of <br />