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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 25, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 1 <br />SUBJECT: County/OCS/CHCCS Discussion/Policy Issues <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />As listed in "Background" <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />John Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />Donna Dean, ext 215.1 <br />Cra~_Benedict, ext 2592 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 6$$-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To discuss various issues with policy and/ or financial implications that are of <br />current interest to the Orange County Commissioners, Orange County Board of Education, <br />and/or Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />a) School Capital Planning/Funding Task Force Discussions <br />At the March 29, 2000 CIP work session, the BOCC expressed its intent to convey to the two <br />school boards expectations regarding communication about, and review processes that should <br />be associated with, school capital projects. The BOCC enumerated a number of points that <br />should be addressed in a written policy related to planning and funding school projects. <br />Staff drafted a proposed policy document to lay out the BOCC's expectations regarding <br />collaboration and communication on planning and funding schaal capital projects. Both school <br />boards expressed a number of concerns about the draft policy and requested that the BOCC <br />refrain from adopting any such policy until formal dialogue among the boards could be <br />conducted. In August 2000, the work group that had reviewed school funding options last <br />winter met to discuss potential improvements to the draft policy on school capital planning and <br />funding. Several revised versions of the policy have been circulated among the elected <br />officials and staff involved in that work group. While full consensus on the policy has not been <br />achieved, there seems to be general agreement that the version of the proposed policy <br />presented here for discussion among the three full boards is more workable than the original <br />draft prepared in April. <br />The Manager recommends that the BOCC discuss the proposed policy with the school boards <br />and consider the schools' feedback in moving towards formal adoption of this policy, likely at a <br />subsequent BOCC meeting in .October ar November. <br />