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i APPROVED 09/03/02 HIGH SCHOOL PLANNING TASK FORCE J ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING MINUTES May 13, 2002 MEMBERS ATTENDING: Valerie Foushee, Steve Halkiotis, Susan Halkiotis, Barry Jacobs, Dana Thompson, Teresa Williams STAFF ATTENDING: Donna Dean, John Link, Neil Pedersen, Rod Visser Barry Jacobs welcomed participants, noting he sees this as the first of an undefined number of meetings. There is more on this agenda than we can get to. He pointed out two sets of background documents: those distributed from the high school planning process in the 1990s that led to construction of East Chapel Hill High; and those received from TJCOG about school sites and sprawl. He drew attention to the "Conceptual Outline" of March 14 asking if this is still consistent with everyone's view of what we need to do. Barry noted that Commissioners have lots of questions. As the budget situation worsens, it promotes more questions we hadn't even thought of back in March. This broad list of factors would satisfactorily shape the BOCC picture. Dana Thompson noted that, as the newest person, it would be helpful to her to have historical documents on that process. She is interested in what conversations there were before East and Cedar Ridge were built and how that related to school construction standards. John Link noted we've always pursued a collaborative approach. Kay Singer's 1991 report raised the notion of building schools in modules. He sees that as pertinent now, if you start with a 750 student high school and add on — nothing here is really new or different. He recalls a lot of time on the East program committee was spent on vocational education and that Rose Bolick had lots of good input on that. Neil Pedersen remembers 2 committees -that program committee, which met after the 1992 bond was approved, and the 1991 committee that fulfilled the expectation that there would need to be conversations about merger when a 3rd high school in Orange County became necessary. The decision was to build at the north end of the CHCCS district to facilitate sharing, but that never materialized because East filled up so quickly. Barry drew attention to the Collaboration Committee report from February 2002. He asked if any more info has been developed. The BOCC feels like they don't know much,besides what. he's read in the paper-. They have lots of confidence that folks here want to collaborate, but we seem institutionally incapable of acting on that. Neil reported that not much more has happened. There was some work on survey questions, but he hasn't'seen it in 4-6 weeks when it was close to done. He clarified that it was students that would be surveyed. The survey has not yet been administered. He noted plans to share the survey with the BOCC. Neil says they would try to locate a firm as consultant and bring that to the BOCC to see if there was money.