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AGENDA 017a(2) <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> TO: Mayor and Town Council <br /> FROM: Council Member Flicks Bateman <br /> SUBJECT: Discussions About Location for Third High School <br /> DATE: August 26,2002 <br /> I ask the Council to consider starting conversations with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of <br /> Education and the Orange County Board of Commissioners about prospects for locating a third <br /> high school in the southern part of Chapel Hill. <br /> BACKGROUND <br /> Our school district needs a third high school. We have received reports showing historical and <br /> projected growth in the number of high school students in our community, and we know that the <br /> capacities of Chapel Hill High School and East Chapel Hill High School are about to be <br /> exceeded. School officials are looking for a site for this needed school. <br /> It has been suggested that a logical location for this school would be the southern part of Chapel <br /> Hill, since our two existing high schools are both on the northern edge of Chapel Hill. Several <br /> sites have been under consideration by the School Board,but no decisions have been made. <br /> Although I did not support(and still do not support) a citizens group proposal to negotiate a land <br /> swap of Town owned park land for a school site, I believe that we can do more to assist in the <br /> process of locating a suitable school site in the southern area of our community. <br /> PROPOSAL <br /> I believe that it would be productive to bring the Chapel Hill Town Council, the School Board, <br /> and the Orange County Board of Commissioners (or representatives of these three bodies) <br /> together to discuss the possibilities. I suggest that the Mayor communicate with the chairs of the <br /> other two Boards to initiate this conversation. <br />