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Attachment 1 4 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS A public hearing will be held in the Judge F. Gordon Battle Superior Courtroom of the New Orange County Courthouse, 106 E. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, North Carolina, on Monday, December 1, 2008, at 7:30 PM for the purpose of giving all interested citizens an opportunity to speak for or against the following item: 1. Draft Educational Facilities Impact Fee Reports Effective July 1, 1993, the Board of County Commissioners established a system of impact fees to help recover a portion of school capital projects that add student capacity necessary to serve residential growth in the county. Since that date, an impact fee has been collected for each new housing unit constructed or installed in the county, including single-family home, multi-family housing units, apartments, and manufactured homes. Fees collected in each of the two school districts within the county (Chapel Hill — Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools) are deposited into separate special accounts and used exclusively for the construction of new school facilities in the school district in which the fee was collected. The impact fee supplements funds provided by the County from sales tax and property tax revenues for school capital projects. The educational facilities impact fee presently collected (last updated in 2001) in each district for each new residential unit is as follows: Adopted School Impact Fees (2001) [NOTE: Fee levels were adopted at 60%of the Maximum Supportable Impact Fee(MSIF) for CHCCS and 56% of the MSIF for OCS] Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools Orange County Schools Single-Family & Multi-wide $4,407 $3,000 Manufactured Homes Multi-Family & Single-wide $1,979 $1,420 Manufactured Homes Since 2001, construction costs have increased significantly and land prices have appreciated. The Board of County Commissioners employed a consultant to evaluate impact fee levels and determine the maximum legally defensible fee for new development in each of the school districts. The full draft reports (one for each school district) are available on the Orange County website at: http://www.co.orange.nc.us/OCCLERKS/0809166d0.pdf (Orange County Schools) and http://www.co.orange.nc.us/OCCLERKS/0809166dC.pdf (Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools). The 2007 Technical Reports determined the Maximum Supportable Impact Fees as shown in the Table below. THE MAXIMUM LEGALLY PERMISSABLE FEES CALCULATED IN THE REPORTS OF THE CONSULTANT ARE NOT A PROPOSAL TO CHARGE THOSE LEVELS OF FEES. The Board of Commissioners is currently considering an impact fee in the range shown in the table.