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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: February 17, 2004 Action Agen a Item No. - SUBJECT: Outstanding County Program Awards Presentation DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharron Hinton, ext. 2300 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To present the Outstanding County Program Awards for (1) School Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (School APFO) and (2) Outreach and Education for Solid Waste in North Carolina. BACKGROUND: The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACG) sponsors the Outstanding County Program Awards which honors counties for their support of excellence. The intent of the award is to recognize programs that involve a uniquely innovative process, solution or idea to address a county or multi-jurisdictional issue and/or prevent a future problem from developing, The major criteria for the award are: innovation, success, effort and difficulty, and collaboration. Orange County has been notified that two programs are award winners for 2003. Representatives from the NCACC will attend the meeting to acknowledge the programs and staff, including Craig N, Benedict, AIGP, Planning Director, for the School APFO, and Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Director, for the Outreach and Education far Solid Waste Program. Highlights of School APFO School APFO began in early 1999 when Orange County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, the Orange County School District and Chapel Hill/Carrboro School District began discussing the need for a School Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance. School funding, which is regulated by the Board of County Commissioners for the two school district county, had become an increasingly dominant element of the County's general fund and capital investment plan (CIP). With housing growth accelerating in all jurisdictions within the County, and the ensuing student membership growth creating a burgeoning demand far new schools, a regulatory program such as a School APFO was necessary to synchronize the available and future supply of school capacity with the demands of new housing. A School APFO ensures, to the maximum extent feasible, that new housing developments will be approved only when it can be reasonably expected that school capacity will be available to accommodate such projects.