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38 Recommendation: The school systems and County should make public their current ten-year capacity projections (using all methodologies) and the County should produce projected funding scenarios that will pace school ~o*+s+rvct~on with projected growth over the next ten Year. 9. Section 1(d) of the draft MOU allows the County Commissioners to chance the counting methodology without input from elected municipal officials. The M(7U also provides no specific means for the resolution of conflicting opinions between municipalities and the County on the methodology for projecting student growth. Recommendation: Town Council Members and Aldermen should be given an opportunity to review proposed changes to methodologies and projected student counts. Any decision to change methodologies should not be made until it is commented on by the municipalities and the public. 10. The processes and deadlines for the period between November 15 and February 15 are not fully specified nor do the specified deadlines provide sufficient time for elected official and public discussion and comment. For example, Section 1(d) of the draft MOU provides that changes made to methodologies and the projected student growth rate require only a 15-day notice (from February 1 to February 15) to the schools for them to produce new projections. Recommendation: Descriptions of processes and their deadlines between November 15 and February 15 should be fully specified. Section 1(d) of the MOU should provide for a longer period of time in advance of February 15 for distribution of modifications made by the County for new student counting and projecting protocols. The CIP and a Capital Funding Plan should be adjusted annually between November 15 and February 15. In Section 1(e) of the MOU, the phrase "annually or otherwise" should be replaced with "upon its annual review," and the date for that adjustment should be set. 11. The definition of a CIP is unclear as it is refereed to as a "Capital ~ast~stm.~nt flan" in the fifth "Whereas" clause of the draft MOU and a "Capital Improvement Plan" in Section 1 of the draft MOU. Recommendation: The definition of CIP should be clarified. 12. The MOU and Model Ordinance should include a "sunset" clause in the event that the County's commitment is not realized and capital funding is not made available. Recommendation: The drafts should include a provision that if CAPs are not available for a period of three consecutive years, then the Ordinance and MOU become void until adequate school construction funding is restored by the County.