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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 3, 2025 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-j <br /> SUBJECT: Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance —Approval and Certification of <br /> 2025 Report <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1. 2025 SAPFOTAC Annual Report Perdita Holtz, Deputy Director, 919-245- <br /> 2. Student Projection Charts 2578 <br /> Cy Stober, Director, 919-245-2592 <br /> PURPOSE: To approve and certify the 2025 Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance <br /> Technical Advisory Committee (SAPFOTAC) Report. <br /> BACKGROUND: At the February 4, 2025 Board of County Commissioners' Business meeting, <br /> the Board approved the November 15, 2024 actual membership and capacity numbers for both <br /> Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) and Orange County Schools (OCS). Additional <br /> approvals/certifications, as outlined in the table below, are required by the SAPFO partners' <br /> MOUs (Memoranda of Understanding). <br /> At the April 15, 2025 BOCC Business meeting, the Board received for transmittal the draft 2025 <br /> SAPFOTAC Report. A letter and the Executive Summary of the Report were sent to all SAPFO <br /> partners advising them of the availability of the draft Report and inviting comments. Comments <br /> were requested for submission by May 16, 2025. No comments were provided to Orange <br /> County by the partners. <br /> The exact pages of the 2025 SAPFOTAC Report the BOCC will be acknowledging and <br /> certifying are listed below. The context (i.e. definitions and standards) of the various SAPFO <br /> elements precedes the data to be certified and is within the full report. <br /> In future years, the statistical modeling that informs the growth projections and capacity needs <br /> of the schools within Annual SAPFOTAC Report is going to be replaced by the methodology <br /> used by Carolina Demography, reflected in the authorization to change the student projection <br /> methodology approved by the BOCC at its April 15, 2025 Business Meeting. <br />