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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 20, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. q-~ <br />SUBJECT: Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (SAPFO) -Technical Advisory <br />Committee Annual Report <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager/Budget/Planning/ PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Attorney <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />SAPFO Memorandum of Understanding <br />and Addendum <br />Draft SAPFOTAC Annual Report <br />(under separate cover) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />Donna Dean, ext 2151 <br />Craig Benedict, ext 2592 <br />Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 <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, and on related issues as outlined in the draft Annual Report of the SAPFO <br />Technical Advisory Committee (SAPFOTAC). <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 (CHCCS) <br />and Orange County Schools (OCS) reached agreement and became signatories to Memoranda <br />of Understanding (MOUs) related to the Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance <br />(SAPFO). SAPFO provides a mechanism for tying the pace of residential development to a <br />reasonable and sustainable schedule for the construction of new school space to accommodate <br />students who will live in the new residential development. Copies of the MOU and addendum <br />far Orange County, CHCCS, Chapel Hill and Carrboro are attached for reference purposes (the <br />MOU and addendum for 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 requirementto certify the building capacity available irreach system at the <br />elementary, middle and high school levels. The SAPFO Technical Advisory Committee, <br />comprised of representatives of both school systems and the Planning Directors of the County <br />and Towns, also is tasked to produce an annual report for the governing boards of each <br />SAPFO partner outlining changes in membership, capacity, student projections, and their <br />collective impacts on the future issuance of Certificates of Adequate Public Schools (CAPS) to <br />