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-ITEM (4) <br />�oxnxnrnaioFOrmExsT.�rm�ra DRAFT <br />This Memorandum of Undmstanding is-entered into this day, of 1999, by and <br />between the Town of'CWboro, the Town of Chapel Hill, Orange County, mad the .Chapel Hill <br />Cazrboro School District (the "School District" ). <br />WHMMAS, Southern Orange County, which includes the Towns of Chapel Hill and <br />Cazrboro, has for the past decade been experiencing rapid population gm th; and <br />WF]�RRSe, , and <br />�. this rapid growtb, and shat which is anticipated, creates -a 'demand for <br />additional school facilities to accommodate the children who reside within new developments; <br />and <br />WgER.FAS, .the res;=d1btiity for planning for and constricting now school facilities lies <br />primarily with the Chapel Hill Carrboro School Board, with funding provided by the Orange <br />County Board of Commissioners; and <br />VT MEAS, Chapel Hill, Cazrboro, Orange County and "the School District have <br />recognized the need to work •together, to ensure that new growth within 'the- School District <br />occurs at apace that allows Orange County and the School District to provide adequate school <br />facilities to serve the children within such new developments; . <br />NOW, TIEREFORE, the parties to this memorandum hereby agree as follows: <br />1. The parties will work cooperatively to develop a realistic capital facilities program for <br />the constriction of schools such that, withii three years from the effective date of this <br />Memorandum, no school within the School District is operating at more than of its <br />building capacity. The term "building capacity" as used herein refers to permanent buildings, not <br />mobile units or bailers. The capital facilities program shall Will a projected growth rate agreed <br />upon by the parties, which growth rate may differ from one attendance ;Done to another. <br />2. The towns and the county will adopt amendments to their respective ordinances, in - <br />substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. to limit the approval of major residential <br />developments within the School District to those that can adequately be served with existing or <br />proposed school facilitieL <br />3. The School District will establish an administrative process to receive and take action <br />Upon applications for Certificates of Educational Facilities C CEF'sJ submitted by developers <br />who are required by the ordinance attached as Exhibit A to have such certificates before <br />Obtaining development permission from the towns or the county. The School District will issue a <br />CEF for a proposed development if it concludes that, given the number of school age children <br />projected to reside in that development, and considering all of the factors listed immediately <br />below, the number of students projected to attend the Chapel Hill Cairboro elementary school, <br />middle school, and High school that serve the corresponding attendance districts where the <br />