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<br />WHEREAS, the BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS endorses neither the <br />site selected for CHCCS high school d#3 nor the acquisition by <br />eminent domain of the parcels of land that will make up the <br />site, however, the BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS acknowledges that the <br />BOARD OF EDUCATION is within its statutory power to acquire the <br />properties it has selected for the siting of CHCCS high school <br />#3 and to do so by the exercise of eminent domain; and <br />WHEREAS, the amount of funding identified by the BOARD OF <br />COMMISSIONERS for CHCCS high school d#3 is $27,800,000; and <br />WHEREAS, no concept plan for CHCCS high school #3 has yet <br />been presented by the BOARD OF EDUCATION to the BOARD OF <br />COMMISSIONERS with a projected cost of $27,800,000; and <br />WHEREAS, the BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS on June 16, 2003, in <br />the context of a proposal by the BOARD OF EDUCATION for the <br />approval of approximately $33,870,000 in funding for CHCCS high <br />school #3, approved a request that the BOARD OF EDUCATION <br />consider a number of options for meeting student capacity at the <br />high school level for students residing in the Chapel Hill- <br />Carrboro City School District; and <br />WHEREAS, in that June 16, 2003 action, the BOARD OF <br />COMMISSIONERS offered, "in order to promote creative thinking <br />and a sounder example for young people" to approve an <br />appropriation to the BOARD OF EDUCATION's capital expense fund <br />$2,200,000 more than $27,800,000 for CHCCS high school #3, <br />5 <br />