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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 4, 2004 <br />Action Age ~a~ <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Decisions Regarding Orange County Middle School #3 Site <br />and Adjacent Properties <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Planning/ PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Budget <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />12/03 Middle School Site Plan <br />3/1/04 OCS Board Resolution on <br />Middle School Site <br />OCS Middle School # 3 Capital Project <br />Ordinance <br />2/27/04 Planning Director Memo re: <br />Euliss Property <br />Euliss Property Vicinity/Site Maps <br />3/1/04 OCS Board Resolution on <br />Euliss Property <br />Soccer Superfund Capital Project <br />Ordinance <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />John Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />Craig Benedict, ext 2592 <br />Donna Dean, ext 2151 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider various decisions regarding the proposed Orange County Schools <br />Middle School #3 site and adjacent properties, <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Orange County Schools -Middle School #3 <br />In November 2001, Orange County voters approved the issuance of $18,5 million in general <br />obligation bonds for the siting and constniction of a new middle school for the Orange County <br />Schools (OCS). Since that time OCS officials have enlisted the support of Orange County staff <br />and others to review and assess potentially suitable sites for the new middle school, The Board <br />of Education has determined that it wishes to build the school on a portion of approximately 67 <br />acres of property located in the Efland area between Interstate 40/85 and West Ten Road, <br />In June 2003, the Board of Commissioners appropriated funds that allowed the Board of <br />Education to enter into options to purchase the parcels comprising those 67 acres (and another <br />33+ acres immediately to the east -that property will be discussed during the second portion of <br />this abstract). The purchase options for the 67 acres (referred to elsewhere as the Allison and <br />Daniel properties) expire on March 15, 2004, There is an opportunity to extend these options, <br />