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24 <br /> 1 Chair Rich said Craig Benedict, Planning Director, went before each of the entities and <br /> 2 all are up to date. She said OCS has been before Town of Hillsborough asking the Town to <br /> 3 move forward. She said she does not think Chapel Hill and Carrboro are as far along in <br /> 4 discussions. <br /> 5 Commissioner Dorosin said the entire BOCC seems to favor counting the pre-K students, <br /> 6 so he would favor moving forward with option one and start drafting the amendment. <br /> 7 Chair Rich asked if it is clear which number of students are being counted: the existing <br /> 8 students, the mandated students, the waiting list, etc. <br /> 9 Commissioner Dorosin said SAPFO currently counts kids that are in the building, and he <br /> 10 would support continuing that. <br /> 11 Chair Rich asked if the numbers ever change, can CHCCS enroll more than 267 kids. <br /> 12 Commissioner Dorosin said the numbers would change based on enrollment, and if the <br /> 13 districts can afford to accommodate more students, they should do so. <br /> 14 Chair Rich said that practice could trigger the building of a new school. <br /> 15 Commissioner Dorosin said that is what SAPFO is for now, and K-12 numbers can <br /> 16 trigger the building of a new school. <br /> 17 Travis Myren said the difference is that pre-K is discretionary, with the exception of <br /> 18 mandated students. <br /> 19 Chair Rich said the Board supports pre-K and knows every child deserves it. She said <br /> 20 including pre-K could trigger the need for a new school sooner than otherwise would have been <br /> 21 needed. <br /> 22 Commissioner McKee said option 1 makes the most sense, as it counts the kids that are <br /> 23 already there. He said universal pre-K is a different conversation. <br /> 24 Commissioner Greene said the kids in pre-K are not all mandated to be there, and the <br /> 25 number of non-mandated kids could be high or low. She said the BOCC does not want to be in a <br /> 26 position of going against the case from Cabarrus County. <br /> 27 Commissioner Marcoplos asked if all the parities involved have the same understanding <br /> 28 of option 1. He said, if not, the County would come up with an amendment for all to review, all <br /> 29 the while counting the kids informally. He said if the BOCC is going to take option 1, it will <br /> 30 take elements of option 2 to get them there. He said both options will come to pass with time. <br /> 31 Commissioner Price asked if there is a timeline, and if students are counted what happens <br /> 32 next. She asked if the County will end up out of compliance if pre-K students are counted. <br /> 33 Travis Myren said the school districts requested the amendment to the membership <br /> 34 language. He said in terms of adoption there is not a hard and fast deadline. <br /> 35 Commissioner Price said if the BOCC passes this next month, hypothetically, are the <br /> 36 schools requesting to eliminate CAPS or to keep it. <br /> 37 Travis Myren said the schools did not address CAPS. <br /> 38 Commissioner Price said the BOCC continues to use as a planning tool, and the district <br /> 39 may be out of compliance with the new state classroom mandates. <br /> 40 Travis Myren said this is a local creation, and it depends how the Board wants to treat the <br /> 41 CAPS. <br /> 42 Chair Rich said the BOCC needs to have more conversations with Chapel Hill and <br /> 43 Carrboro about this. <br /> 44 Commissioner Bedford said she looked back at previous documents, and the school <br /> 45 districts were discussing including the existing pre-K students and the wait list, but with a <br />