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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 26, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 1 <br />SUBJECT: County /OCS /CHCCS Matters <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager /Budget/CHCCS /OCS PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />As listed in "Background" John Link or Rod Visser, 245 -2300; <br />Donna Dean, 245 -2151 <br />Neil Pedersen, 967 -8211 <br />Shirley Carraway, 732 -8126 <br />PURPOSE: To discuss various issues with policy and /or financial implications that are of <br />current interest to the Orange County Commissioners, Orange County Board of Education, <br />and /or Chapel Hill - Carrboro Board of Education. <br />BACKGROUND: At the September 1, 2005 meeting of the Collaboration Work Group, <br />members agreed to structure the meeting for this September 26 joint work session around the <br />following agenda items: <br />a. Discussion /Policy Issues <br />1. School Construction Standards <br />In May 1996, the Board of Commissioners adopted school construction standards <br />for elementary and middle schools in Orange County, High School construction <br />standards were approved in April 1999. Two separate School Facilities Task Forces <br />that convened in 2000 and in 2002 identified a number of issues related to both sets <br />of standards that required clarification and or updating (e.g. baseline estimates of <br />per square foot cost, an appropriate inflation factor, percentage of project budget <br />that should be set aside for contingency, etc). Since that time, CHCCS High School <br />#3 has been designed as an 800 student high school, expandable to accommodate <br />1200 students (existing high school standards contemplate 1000 student capacity, <br />expandable to 1500). <br />The Collaboration Work Group has discussed options for how to address needed <br />updates to existing Orange County school construction standards and are soliciting <br />input from elected colleagues to help guide the Group's process. <br />Attachment 1 -a -1 -a May 1996 Elementary/Middle School Construction Standards <br />Attachment 1-a- 1-b April 1999 High School Construction Standards <br />