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design of the school should accommodate expansion of the school to 1500 students <br />in the event that this should become necessary. <br />2. The Board of Education will move as quickly as possible to acquire a site in <br />the southern end of the district. In the event the Board finds that the site along <br />the Smith Level Road is the best site for a third high school, it will request that <br />the appropriate governmental entities move the Urban Services Boundary line <br />to include three properties along Smith Level Road, north of Dogwood Acres. <br />If it would be helpful, the Board would support a provision that would restrict <br />development of these properties for school purposes. The attached map <br />outlines the very minor change that may be requested. <br />3. The school district's Capital Investment Plan (CIP) will include plans for the <br />conversion of the current Lincoln Center facility to a high school providing <br />alternative and/or magnet programs to serve an enrollment of up to 500 students. <br />This plan will include the renovation of existing space and add approximately <br />36,000 square feet to the building. A very preliminary estimate of the cost of this <br />project is $11 million. The cost of this renovation is projected to be less than <br />expanding the third high school to a capacity of 1500 and it would have the added <br />advantage of providing community resources to the Lincoln neighborhood. This <br />facility will open by 2010. Funding does not exist in the current CIP for this <br />purpose. <br />4. . A new central office facility will be constructed and opened no later than 2008 to <br />accommodate a growing staff, to provide a healthier work environment, and to <br />eliminate the need to rent office space in the community. At this time, plans call for <br />the construction of this facility adjacent to the Transportation Center and across the <br />street from Chapel Hill High School. Funding for this facility in the amount of $5.8 <br />million currently exists in the CIP. <br />5. The Board of Education, via this resolution, requests the BOCC to work in <br />conjunction with the Board of Education to develop and commit to a new financing <br />plan that will allow for the construction of Elementary No. 10 that is projected to <br />open between 2006-07 and 2010-11 consistent with the Level of Service <br />parameters adopted in the final version of the Memorandum of Understanding for <br />the Schools Adequate Public Facility Ordinance and with class size reductions set <br />at either the state or local level. It is anticipated that this elementary school will be <br />constructed on the Old 86/Eubanks Road Site.