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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: April 1, 2003 Action Agen a Item No. SUBJECT• School Collaboration Study DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Draft Collaboration Initiative MOU John Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider approving a memorandum of understanding that lays out the parameters of a study to be carried out by the Institute of Government of opportunities for collaboration between the Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools. BACKGROUND: An offshoot of the High School Planning Task Force process in 2002 was a set of discussions this past fall between the Chairs of the Board of Commissioners and the two Boards of Education regarding opportunities for collaboration on programs and facilities between the two school systems. Those discussions, which included faculty from the Institute of Government (IOG), were a follow up to preliminary work done a year ago by a committee of school board members at the urging of the BOCC. Dr. Phil Boyle of the IOG has drafted a proposed agreement between the County and the IOG under which he would lead an assessment of collaboration efforts and opportunities between the school systems. The study is proposed at a cost of $20,000, to be borne by the County. At their February 26, 2003 work session, the BOCC briefly discussed whether or not to pursue this study in light of the school merger analysis to be conducted over the next six months, but took no action on the matter. FINANCIAL IMPACT: The cost of the proposed study is $20,000. The Manager recommends that if the Board elects to pursue this study, that it be funded by means of an appropriation of $20,000 in fund balance from the General Fund for FY 2002-03 . RECOMMENDATION(S): As the Board decides.