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would not be a productive area for collaboration, items receiving votes over five were identified as follows: <br />18, 9, 5, 3 and 7. the top 10 items of interest for collaboration are: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 16, 18 and 21. <br />Discussion followed regarding what is within the Board of Education's scope for completion not requiring <br />additional support from the Board of County Commissioners and how many of the top ten items could be <br />feasibly handled at one time. At the risk of not being able to accomplish the complete list simultaneously, <br />Board members agreed to focus on the top five items (2, G, 12, 16 and 21), The next five items (18, 9, 5, .3 and <br />7) will be put on a list for future consideration so that the work of the two collaboration meetings will not be <br />lost in the future thus requiring a need for the collaboration process to be repeated. The BOCC will be <br />expecting a report on April 26 outlining how the two systems aze progressing and what has been accomplished <br />in the collaboration process with a report to be given in May including items that will have a financial impact <br />on the budget requests made by the Boards of Education.. <br />The top ten items were ranked according to number of votes as follows: <br />1. .Joint opportunities for professional development - 9 <br />2. Coordinated implementation of middle college program and/or more extensive dual emollment <br />programs with local commwrity colleges, taking advantage of Durham Tech's Orange County campus <br />to the greatest extent possible - 8 <br />3. Measurable opportunities for students in each district to participate in programs in the other district <br />that aze not now currently available to them; e.g. CHCCS AP courses, OCS vocational courses, OCS <br />IB program - 8 <br />4. New paradigm for SRO's - 8 <br />5. After School Programming - 7 <br />6, Working relationship: ensure that communication is healthy, open and trusting - 6 <br />7.. Create more eazly childhood programs - 6 <br />8. Explore creating a middle school athletic conference - 6 <br />9. Guidelines for using any additional funds that would be generated if new revenues were created ("new <br />paradigm") - 5 <br />10, Alternative school programming, other than a single alternative school for students in both district - 5 <br />Board members were walked through a number of exercises to identify items in four categories: <br />(a) low hanging fruit <br />Item 6 -working relationships <br />Item 1 -professional development <br />Item 8 -middle school athletics, <br />(b) we control, but lots of planning <br />Item 3 -cross district enrollment <br />Item 2 -middle college <br />(c) big ticket item <br />Item 4- SRO's <br />Item 5 -after school programs <br />Item IO -alternative school <br />(d) huge payoff way down the road <br />Item 9 -paradigm funding <br />Item 7 -early childhood <br />Board members came to consensus on the following five year plan: <br />