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APPROVED 611 912 0 0 1 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION <br />CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO BOARD OF EDUCATION <br />March 28, 2001 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in joint session on Wednesday, March 28, <br />2001 at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Stephen H. Halkiotis and Commissioners <br />Margaret W. Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M. Gordon, and Barry Jacobs <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Manager <br />Rod Visser and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe {All other staff members will be identified <br />appropriately below) <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Keith Cook and <br />members Brenda Stephens, Robert Bateman, Susan Halkiotis, David Kolbinsky, and Dana Thompson <br />CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Nicholas <br />M. Didow and members Valerie Foushee, Gloria Faley, Maryanne Rosenman, Roger Waldon, and <br />Teresa Williams <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE 1N THE PERMANENT <br />AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br />1. COUNTYlOCS1CHCCS DISCUSSION/POLICY ISSUES <br />A. Capital Needs Advisory Task Farce Process <br />B. November 2001 Bond Referendum <br />John Link said that there have been two very productive meetings. Rod Visser said that <br />the task force would finish their work by the end of May so that the County Commissioners could <br />deliberate and make a decision in June. The task force will be meeting almost every week from now <br />through May. He said that the task force would be receiving reports from the Affordable Housing Task <br />Force next week and continue receiving reports that are relevant to the bond referendum. He <br />distributed a timetable for the legal requirements that must be met. There are a number of steps that <br />must be taken over the summer beginning with the bond order being introduced an August 14, 2001. <br />The goal is to not exceed more than 15°~ of general fund expenditures in any one budget year to <br />retire debt. <br />Nick Didow made reference to the green sheet that was distributed at the end of the <br />Capital Needs Task Force meeting and said that this dealt with the relationship between the effective <br />interest rate for the issuance of debt and the impact of that on the amount of debt that could be <br />carried. He made reference to the National School Board Association meeting in San Diego and said <br />that atone of the sessions he heard that the mixed negotiated and competitive bid effective interest <br />rate for issuance of school bond debt in January and February of this year was 4.834°~. <br />C. School Nurses <br />Jahn Link said that staff has been addressing the staffing requirements for the new <br />schools and the existing schools. Initially, the staff began with a broad discussion on what the <br />threshold should be far having school nurses in our schools. There is agreement that there needs to <br />be a nurse present in each of our schools. The plan is to reach full implementation in four fiscal <br />years. <br />Health Director Rosemary Summers summarized the report in the agenda packet. The <br />numbers in the abstract represent services just by school nurses and not services by other school <br />personnel who may render aid to students. In the chart on page four, the current student to nurse <br />