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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 4, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. l 0- b <br />SUBJECT: School Funding Options Task Force Report <br />DEPARTMENT: Commissioners/Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />3/23/00 Draft Task Force Report <br />Task Force Member Comments <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Commissioners Carey & Jacobs, ext 2125 <br />Jahn Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />(to be provided later under separate cover) TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 96$-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To discuss the draft report from the School Funding Options Task Force. <br />BACKGROUND: As one element of their adopted goals for FY 1999-2000, the County <br />Commissioners charged the Manager and staff to prepare a report outlining options for <br />establishing parameters for funding the public schools in fiscal year 2000-2001 and beyond. <br />Staff presented this report in August 1999, and the options therein outlined were discussed in <br />December 1999 in a joint meeting between the BOCC and the two school boards. The schools <br />suggested that a work group composed of school board members and Commissioners be <br />convened to review those options and to make recommendations to the BOCC. <br />In January 2000, the Board appointed ashort-duration School Funding Options Task Force, <br />consisting of two members each of the Board of Commissioners, the Orange County Board of <br />Education, and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education. The County Manager, the two <br />Superintendents, and appropriate staff have provided support to the task force, which met twice <br />in February. <br />Commissioners Carey and Jacobs will lead discussion of the first draft of a report from the task <br />force. Preliminary discussion of the task force's work and recommendations took place at the <br />March 27 joint work session between the BOCC and the two school boards. School members <br />of the task force were requested to provide their written comments about the draft report, if any, <br />by Friday, March 31 so the BOCC can consider those during the April 4 discussion of the task <br />force report. Both school boards indicated a desire to discuss the report as a group at their <br />respective next meetings prior to the BOCC taking action later in April to set parameters for <br />County funding of the 2000-2001 (and future) school budget. <br />