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J build a comprehensive high school with a capacity as close to 1000 students as the budget will perriiit. The projected budget, based on currently available funds, is approximately $28 million. The school will be located on the southern side of the school district. The target opening date is 2005-06 although it is recognized that this will be a difficult deadline to meet. If possible, the site that is selected and the design of the school should accommodate expansion of the school to 1500 students in the event that this should become necessary. 2. The Board of Education will move as quickly as possible to acquire a site in the southern end of the district. In the event the Board finds that the site along the Smith Level Road is the best site for a third high school, it will request that the appropriate governmental entities move the Urban Services Boundary line to include three properties along Smith Level Road, north of Dogwood Acres. If it would be helpful, the Board would support a provision that would restrict development of these properties for school purposes. The attached map outlines the very minor change that may be requested. 3. The school district's Capital Investment Plan (CIP) will include plans for the conversion of the current Lincoln Center facility to a high school providing alternative and/or magnet programs to serve an enrollment of up to S00 students. This plan will include the renovation of existing space and add approximately 36,000 square feet to the building. Avery preliminary estimate of the cost of this project is $11 million. The cost of this renovation is projected to be less than expanding the third high school to a capacity of 1500 and it would have the added advantage of providing community resources to the Lincoln neighborhood. This facility will open by 2010. Funding does not exist in the current CIP for this purpose. 4. Anew central office facility will be constructed and opened no later than 2008 to accommodate a growing staff, to provide a healthier work environment, and to eliminate the need to rent office space in the community. At this time, plans call for the construction of this facility adjacent to the Transportation Center and across the street from Chapel Hill High School. Funding for this facility in the amount of $5.8 million currently exists in the CIP. 5. The Board of Education, via this resolution, requests the BOCC to work in conjunction with the Board of Education to develop and commit to a new financing plan that will allow for the construction of Elementary No. 10 that is projected to open between 2006-07 and 2010-11 consistent with the Level of Service parameters adopted in the final version of the Memorandum of Understanding for the Schools Adequate Public Facility Ordinance and with class size reductions set at either the