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CHAPEL HILL - CARRBORO . CITY SCHOOLS Lincoln Center, Merritt Mill Road Chapel Hill, .North Carolina 27516 Telephone: (919) 967 -8211 Neil G. Pedersen Ann Hart, Assistant Superintendent Superintendent For Instructional Services Steve Scroggs, Interim Assistant Superintendent For Support Services TO: Board of Education FROM: Neil G. Pederse Superintendent RE: Preliminary School Facilities Report DATE: November 24, 1999 Attached you will find a document called "Preliminary School Facilities Report." This report represents an important first step in the process of developing a new Facilities Master Plan for the school district. Preparation and adoption of such a plan is one of the Board's objectives for the 1999 -2000 academic year. The report pulls together different sets of population and student enrollment projections and offers a "best guess" of student enrollment, by year and by level (elementary, middle, high school) for the next 25 years. In the early years the vision is clear and reliable. The longer the period of projection, the less reliable the projections become. Still, it is useful to be considering 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 year probable needs. The conclusion of the report is that we are likely to need several new facilities during this period One or two elementary schools will be needed during the next decade to accommodate growth and the reductions in class size to which the Board already has committed. It also is anticipated that by the year 2025, two elementary schools will need to be replaced because they will be approaching 75 years of age. The district also will need additional capacity for its high school population by 2004. It is suggested in the report that the Board consider securing a site for one or more alternative schools or programs and/or add mobile classrooms to the existing campuses. A third high school does not appear to be warranted at this time. The report also points out the shortcomings of the Lincoln Center facility and suggests that a new facility be sought or built to meet this need. This would allow the Lincoln Center site to be used for an educational purpose, possibly the alternative high school We recommend that the next step in this planning process take place on December 2nd with the creation of a Facilities Master Plan Task Force. We recommend that this Task Force be charged with responsibility for preparing a plan to be presented to the School Board no later than the end of June, 2000. We recommend that the plan be structured along the lines of the attached outline.