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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 21, 2003 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. o - A <br />SUBJECT: School Capital Issues Update <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Budget <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />School Capital Reference Information <br />Draft Collaboration Initiative MOU <br />10/17/02 CHCCS Resolution on New <br />Facilities <br />11 /20/02 Chair Letter to CHCCS <br />Policy on Planning and Funding School <br />Capital Issues <br />High School Planning Task Force Minutes <br />School Facilities Task Force Minutes <br />CHATPEC Meeting Summaries <br />(under separate cover) <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />John Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />Donna Dean, ext 2151 <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 and discuss updates from staff and Commissioners serving on <br />various task forces or work groups. <br />BACKGROUND: The Commissioners and staff, often working with school boards and staff <br />and other interested organizations and members of the community, made substantial progress <br />during 2002 on a wide range of initiatives intended to enhance public education in Orange <br />County. Staff will make brief presentations regarding major points and current status of <br />planning efforts in the areas outlined below. Commissioners serving on the various work <br />groups may wish to provide updates in addition to, or instead of, a particular staff presentation: <br />High School Planning Task Force <br />This task force, comprised of the Chairs and Vice-Chairs of the BOCC and both school boards, <br />met five times between May and November 2002. Discussion moved from general review of <br />past examples and continuing opportunities for sharing on high school programming and <br />facilities to a more specific focus in the later meetings on relevant issues and possible locations <br />for a proposed third high school in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro system. The general feeling of the <br />Task Force at the conclusion of its most recent meeting on November 22, 2002 was that the <br />group had essentially accomplished all that it could. <br />School Facilities Task Force <br />This task force, comprised of two or three members from each governing board, has met six <br />times thus far, beginning in May 2002. The meetings to date have focused largely on clarifying <br />issues and developing recommendations to the BOCC related to adoption of the Schools