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CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO CITY SCHOOLS Lincoln Center, Merritt Mill Road Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516 Telephone: (919) 967-8211 TO: Barry Jacobs, Chair Orange County Board of Commissioners John Link, Manager Orange County Government FROM: Elizabeth Carter, Chair Neil Pedersen, Superintendent RE: Agenda Items for Joint Meeting on Apri] 26, 2004 DATE: Apri120, 2004 We are looking forward to sharing with you the results of our collaboration efforts with the Orange County Schools.. Our first two meetings were quite successful in identifying those areas of collaboration that our Boards believe to be most promising. We suggest that this be a primary focus of our,joint meeting. There aze some other items, however, that we would like to bring to your attention. Due to time constraints, we don't expect formal responses to these issues prior to, or even at, the joint meeting. At the meeting, we will emphasize the importance of these projects moving forward on a timely basis and our concern that our capital projects are becoming backlogged. It is our desire to hear a commitment on behalf of the County Commissioners to move forward with these projects in a timely manner that will serve the interests of our surdents and staff.. Capital Investment Plan We aze concerned that the process for developing a Capital Investment Plan has disintegrated over the past two years. A few years ago, the schedule called for us to develop a CIF' in ]ate fall and to present it to the County Manager in February nx March. That schedule, evidently, is now obsolete. Although all of our projects for this year, eventually, were approved on aproject-by-project basis, the 200.3-13 CIP was not adopted by the BOCC until April 13, 2004. It now appears that this scenazio could be repeated this yeaz. We still do not have directions as to how to develop our CIP. Funding projections were not provided to us until April 1.3, 2004, leaving us only a few weeks for the staff to prepare a CIP and for the Board to consider it on work session and approve it at a subsequent meeting.. Turning this around in time for the BOCC to consider our request at their May 20`s meeting is not possible. The best possible scenario would have our Board approving the CIP at its meeting on May 20°i, As always, we will work cooperatively with the County staff, but this schedule has placed us in a very difficult predicament.