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V <br />3 <br />state or local level. It is anticipated that this elementary school will be constructed on <br />the Old 86/Eubanks Road Site. <br />6. The Board directs the school administration to pursue plans to locate up to 15 <br />additional mobile classrooms on the two high school campuses to accommodate <br />increased enrollments until a third high school is constructed. This total will include <br />mobiles relocated from other elementary campuses as well as purchased and/or leased <br />mobiles. The Board further directs the redistricting committee to give strong <br />consideration to plans that will balance the enrollments between the two high schools <br />until a third high school opens, and mobiles should be located as necessary to meet <br />the needs of student enrollments. As the administration moves forward with such <br />plans, it should consider other opportunities for reducing overcrowding in the high <br />schools, especially collaboration agreements with local community colleges and the <br />Orange County Schools and continue our current practice of approving transfer <br />out requests as the first formal step to enable students residing in this district to <br />transfer to another school district of their choice. The administration also will <br />take into account the need for additional resources in overcrowded schools and the <br />need to create smaller learning communities in our high schools as it plans for the <br />transition and prepares for future high school reforms. <br />7. The Board of Education believes that a fifth middle school will need to open by 2007- <br />08 and is receptive to this school being located on the Old 86/Eubanks Road site. At <br />this time there are no provisions for funding this project in the CIP. The Board <br />requests that the BOCC begin planning now for how this facility will be financed. <br />8. The Board of Education anticipates locating at least three comprehensive schools <br />on the Old 86/Eubanks Road site and looks forward to participating as an active <br />partner in the master planning process for this piece of property. <br />9. The Board of Education will seek to identify and reserve additional sites for <br />schools within the next year. <br />Revised and Adopted by the Board on 10/17/02. <br />