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23 <br /> <br />Chair Rich asked if it is clear which number of students are being counted: the existing <br />students, the mandated students, the waiting list, etc. <br />Commissioner Dorosin said SAPFO currently counts kids that are in the building, and he <br />would support continuing that. <br />Chair Rich asked if the numbers ever change, can CHCCS enroll more than 267 kids. <br />Commissioner Dorosin said the numbers would change based on enrollment, and if the <br />districts can afford to accommodate more students, they should do so. <br />Chair Rich said that practice could trigger the building of a new school. <br />Commissioner Dorosin said that is what SAPFO is for now, and K-12 numbers can <br />trigger the building of a new school. <br />Travis Myren said the difference is that pre-K is discretionary, with the exception of <br />mandated students. <br />Chair Rich said the Board supports pre-K and knows every child deserves it. She said <br />including pre-K could trigger the need for a new school sooner than otherwise would have been <br />needed. <br />Commissioner McKee said option 1 makes the most sense, as it counts the kids that are <br />already there. He said universal pre-K is a different conversation. <br />Commissioner Greene said the kids in pre-K are not all mandated to be there, and the <br />number of non-mandated kids could be high or low. She said the BOCC does not want to be in <br />a position of going against the case from Cabarrus County. <br />Commissioner Marcoplos asked if all the parities involved have the same understanding <br />of option 1. He said, if not, the County would come up with an amendment for all to review, all <br />the while counting the kids informally. He said if the BOCC is going to take option 1, it will take <br />elements of option 2 to get them there. He said both options will come to pass with time. <br />Commissioner Price asked if there is a timeline, and if students are counted what <br />happens next. She asked if the County will end up out of compliance if pre-K students are <br />counted. <br />Travis Myren said the school districts requested the amendment to the membership <br />language. He said in terms of adoption there is not a hard and fast deadline. <br />Commissioner Price said if the BOCC passes this next month, hypothetically, are the <br />schools requesting to eliminate CAPS or to keep it. <br />Travis Myren said the schools did not address CAPS. <br />Commissioner Price said the BOCC continues to use as a planning tool, and the district <br />may be out of compliance with the new state classroom mandates. <br />Travis Myren said this is a local creation, and it depends how the Board wants to treat <br />the CAPS. <br />Chair Rich said the BOCC needs to have more conversations with Chapel Hill and <br />Carrboro about this. <br />Commissioner Bedford said she looked back at previous documents, and the school <br />districts were discussing including the existing pre-K students and the wait list, but with a <br />maximum of 10%. She said because funding is an unknown, she said the amendment would <br />need to include a maximum. She said if the BOCC went forward with the amendment, she <br />would like to keep the CAPS language, moving away from its mandatory nature, and put a <br />maximum on the number of pre-K children. <br />Travis Myren asked John Roberts if the BOCC made the CAPS an advisory, then the <br />towns would not have to agree to this. <br />John Roberts said yes. He said everyone would have to be a part of the removal of <br />CAPS to keep things equitable; it cannot exist in one district and not another. <br />Chair Rich said all jurisdictions need to be treated equally. She said there seems to be <br />some next steps needed, along with more conversations with the towns.