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ti. APPROVED 08103102 y interest in something at the southern end of the district. Some of this is driven by funding — we may not be able to build something more than 750 student capacity. Neil said they have started some more programmatic function-based discussion. Now the Board is moving to more "traditional" school discussion, driven by forces like cost, site, size. He thinks the Board is heading more towards a larger school with athletic programs. Val concurred, and noted a larger high school may not fit at the southern end, so they are keeping open the possibility of a site nearer the northern end. Neil noted the southern sites are in the 30-40 acre range, which would allow limited parking, athletic fields, etc. There's some appeal to keeping options open and being able to expand in the future. Barry sees it as useful to discuss this on two parallel tracks — if site and available funding are not an issue, and, if they are. He is interested in how much the decision is driven by external factors. We can plan based on what level of constraints there are. What would you do with a 30 vs. 50 acre site? What are the tradeoffs if you could do it the way you want vs. what you do if you can't do what you want? Teresa thinks the Board of Education is more interested in 2 smaller high schools of 500 kids, but have abandoned that as financially impractical, irrespective of the State's budget woes. Barry notes it would be useful for CHCCS to walk us through that thought process. Neil noted their CIP includes a 750 student school, perhaps with the ability to expand it on that site, perhaps to a maximum of 1500 — but then they couldn't do it on any southern site. Barry observed that perhaps it couldn't be done with full athletic facilities or parking. Neil says they haven't considered southern sites for more than 1000 kids. They would have to build a high rise, or have remote athletic facilities. Neil thinks that won't happen here, and Steve concurs. He notes that some kids aren't interested in athletics, but doubts we'd find 1500 who aren't interested. Neil asked if the topics from the bullet list could be put in question form? We have lots of information and maybe we could use that to answer these as questions. For example , "when will CHCCS outgrow its two existing high schools and need additional space?" Barry suggested that all task force members develop these as questions, eliminating any you don't think are relevant. He noted OCS concerns about moving forward with SAPFO because of lingering questions about student projections. Susan needs to know how the options CHCCS has will play out. If the decision is to look at smaller, non-expandable high schools, that leads to a different kind of discussion. She would be interested in looking at whether we need smaller middle schools further down the road. Barry reiterated his interest in how much decisions are driven by cost vs, educational programming desires. He has asked staff to look at how a SAPFO that might limit new schools being built would affect impact fee revenue. Is it responsible to build two smaller, more expensive schools sooner, or build only one now and get through a budget crunch,