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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 4, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. n -CZ <br />SUBJECT: Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (SAPFO) Calculations - <br />Projected Student Membership and Building Capacity <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager/Budget/Planning PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />SAPFO Memorandum of Understanding <br />and Addendum <br />Charts & Tables -Student Projections <br />(under separate cover) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />Donna Dean, ext 2151 <br />Craig Benedict, ext 2592 <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 a preliminary report on the student membership and capacity of the <br />Orange County Schools (OCS) and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) as of <br />November 15, 2003. <br />BACKGROUND: In summer 2003, Orange County, the Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and <br />Hillsborough, and the Boards of Education of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange <br />County Schools reached agreement and became signatories to Memoranda of Understanding <br />related to the Schcols Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (SAPFO). SAPFO provides a <br />mechanism far tying the pace of residential development to a reasonable and sustainable <br />schedule far the construction of new school space to accommodate students who will live in the <br />new residential development. Copies of the MOU and addendum for Orange County, CHCCS, <br />Chapel Hill and Carrboro are attached for reference purposes (the MOU and addendum for <br />Orange County, OCS, and Hillsborough contain similar provisions). <br />Among the SAPFO provisions is a requirement that the County and its partners review and <br />certify the actual number of students attending school in both school systems each November <br />15. There is also a requirement to certify the building capacity available in each system at the <br />elementary, middle and high school levels. <br />County, municipal, and school staff have collaborated to run the November 15, 2003 student <br />membership numbers through the approved ten-year student projection models. The results <br />are included in the attached tables, which will be reviewed and explained at this meeting by <br />staff. Approval of the building capacity calculations and student membership projections will be <br />scheduled for a subsequent BOCC meeting. A significant outstanding issue remains for the <br />