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John Link -2- March 20, 2002 space, workrooms for teachers, mold issues, relocating the media center, and providing additional restrooms for students. In order to exparid/renovate Hillsborough Elementary, we need the on-site space occupied by central office staff. Hillsborough Elementary will receive $900,000 from the Bond passage in November, and $1.6 million was designated in the Alternative Financing category for Central Office expansion. • We also requested$950,000 for renovations at Orange High School. This item was placed in the Alternative Financing category. We would like to see the needs at Orange High School addressed earlier than the 2004 date suggested in the timeline for securing these funds. We would replace the fire alarm system, the intercom system, renovate the media center/cafeteria, and replace several exterior doors, and ceiling tiles. Pre-K Programming—Operational and Capital Budget Impact • Orange County Partnership for Young Children, Chapel Hill Outreach Project, Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools, and our system were selected as one of the More at Four Grant recipients. The grant will allow our system to serve sixty-eight at-risk students in Pre-K classes. Prior to receiving this grant, we worked with the Chapel Hill Outreach Project on a Federal Grant to assume management of the Head Start Program located in the Northern Orange Human Services Building. We were also successful in securing that grant. The collaborative effort between all the various community entities was the selling point in our receiving approval for both grants. We currently have one class at Pathways Elementary, with 16 students enrolled. This class was approved two years ago and is funded locally. There are 33 students in the NHSB and beginning April 8`h these students will be moved to three of our schools. Efland-Cheeks Elementary will have 10 students,New Hope Elementary will have 9, and Pathways Elementary will have a second class with 12 students. An additional seven students have also been approved to enter the program beginning on April 8`h. We believe having the opportunity to interact with this portion of our student population that often enters our schools behind can be better served with this program. We have tried to implement the program for several years,but were unable to do so because of the lack of funding. The arrangement has virtually no cost to our system, but of course we have slightly reduced building level capacity in four schools. We are very fortunate that we are in a position to