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r , <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT C 0 <br /> Meeting Date: November 21, 2000 <br /> Action Agen a <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: Community College Task Force <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> County Manager <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Matching Requirements Table Moses Carey, Jr., Chair <br /> Task Force Report John Link, 245-2300 <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 the report of the Community College Task Force. <br /> BACKGROUND: The Community College Task Force has met four times since March 2000. <br /> Reports from earlier task forces and information from area community colleges have been <br /> reviewed. Focus group sessions have been held to determine the interest of the citizens of <br /> Orange County in establishing a satellite campus of Durham Technical Community College. <br /> After several months of research,the Task Force recommends to-the Orange County Board of <br /> Commissioners that a satellite campus of Durham Technical Community College be established <br /> in Orange County. A satellite campus would: <br /> 0 serve the more than 6500 residents who take one or more classes at a community <br /> college each year, and <br /> �O offer a gateway to the future for residents by providing a more comprehensive, <br /> centralized location for adult training and education services in the.County.. <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT: Staff'a understanding from the Administration at Durham Tech is that <br /> the Statewide bonds for higher education recently approved by North Carolina voters included <br /> earmarking of$4,000,000 for an Orange County Satellite Campus of Durham Technical <br /> Community College. As noted in the attached table of matching requirements, Orange County <br /> must provide a 50 percent match of State bond funds,which means that each State dollar must <br /> be matched, dollar-for-dollar,with local funds. The State legislation authorizing the higher <br /> education bond referendum provided that counties have through June 2006 to complete the <br /> matching requirement. There can be an "in-kind"component to the match. For example, <br /> Orange County would get some matching credit by providing the land for any satellite campus. <br /> The County's share of the funding could come from any combination of sources,which might <br /> include, but are not necessarily limited to: <br /> Thnrcrinv Onril 11 9009 1a%may <br />