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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 16, 2004 <br />Action Agen a '1 -Q <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Adoption of 2003-2013 Capital Investment Plan (CIP) <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Budget PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />2003-13 Manager's Recommended CIP <br />(previously distributed) INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Tables - 10 Year County/School John Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />Project Summaries Donna Dean, ext 2151 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />(This agenda item was previously Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />scheduled but not addressed due to time Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />constraints at the 3104104 BOCC meeting) Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider formal adoption of Orange County's 2003-2013 Capital Investment <br />Plan (CIP). <br />BACKGROUND: The County's Capital Investment Plan serves as a planning tool that <br />provides a mechanism to forecast long-range future capital needs for both school districts and <br />the County. Orange County's long-range plan covers a ten-year period. <br />Annually, staff and the Board consider many factors as they update the CIP including funding <br />availability, newly identified BOCC priorities, and student membership projections. Historically, <br />the Manager has presented the recommended County and School CIP to the BOCC in late <br />spring. As the Board reviews the recommended long-range plan, there is opportunity to discuss <br />projects and adjust the proposed plan, if necessary, before adoption in June. It is important to <br />note that while the BOCC formally adopts a long-range plan each year, the CIP is a "living <br />document" that the Board can amend at any time, <br />Each year, staff and the Board of County Commissioners take the opportunity to re-assess <br />previously identified needs to determine if future needs remain the same as those outlined in <br />past approved plans or to determine if needs and priorities have changed and accordingly, that <br />revisions to the previous CIP are in order. It is far easier to project needs in the early years of <br />the ten-year plan than it is for the outlying years of the plan. While project timelines may shift <br />slightly from year to year, for the most part, immediate capital needs do not normally change <br />significantly. On the other hand, changes in the County's needs and priorities may prompt <br />changes to the plan both in the near and longer range future.