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<br />SCHOOLS ADEQUATE PUBLIC FACILITIES <br />MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING <br />This Memorandum of Understanding is entered into this day of , <br />200_, by and between the Town of Canbor°o, the Town of Chapel I-Iill, the Chapel Hill- <br />Carrboro City Board of Education and Orange County (the "School District"). <br />WHEREAS, the portion of Oratrge County, served by the Chapel Hill/Carrboro School <br />System has for the past decade been experiencing rapid growth in population; and <br />WHEREAS, this growth, and that which is anticipated, creates a demand for additional <br />school facilities to acconunodate the children who reside within new developments; and <br />WHEREAS, the responsibility for plamiing for and constructing new school facilities lies <br />primarily with the Chapel Hill/Carrboro School Board, with fiurding provided by Orange <br />County; and <br />WHEREAS, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Orange County and the Chapel Hill School District, <br />have recognized the need to wont together to ensure that new growth within the School District <br />occurs at a pace that allows Orange County and the School District to provide adequate school <br />facilities to serve the children within such new developments; <br />WHEREAS, the parties have wonted cooperatively and developed a system wherein <br />school facilities are currently adequate to meet the needs of the citizens of the county and will <br />continue to maintain a Capital hrvestment Plan (CIP) that is financially feasible and <br />synchronized with historical growth patterns; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, the parties to this Memorandum hereby agree as follows: <br />Section 1. The parties will work cooperatively to develop a realistic Capital Improvement <br />Plan for the construction of schools such that, from the effective date of this <br />Memorandum, school membership within each school level (i.e. elementary, <br />middle or high) does not exceed the following: <br />Elementary School 105% of Building Capacity <br />Middle School 107% ofBuilding Capacity <br />High School 110% of Bnilding Capacity <br />a. For purposes of this Memorandum, the term "school membership" means <br />the actual number of students attending school as of November 15 of each <br />year. The figure is determined by considering the number of students <br />enrolled (i.e. registered, regardless of whether a student is no longer <br />attending school) acrd malting adjustments for withdrawals, dropouts, <br />deaths, retentions and promotions. Students who are merely absent from <br />H:\DEPTS\SCHOOLS\Sch°oISAPFO\apprMOUchccs062303 d°c <br />