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APPROVED 8/19/2008 <br /> MINUTES <br /> WORK SESSION <br /> Orange County Commissioners <br /> Orange County Board Of Education <br /> Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education <br /> April 22, 2008 <br /> 7:30 p.m. <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a joint session with the Chapel <br /> Hill—Carrboro Board of Education and the Orange County Board of Education on Tuesday, April <br /> 22, 2008 07 at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioners Valerie <br /> P. Foushee, Alice M. Gordon, and Mike Nelson <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Moses Carey, Jr., <br /> COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br /> COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Laura Blackmon, Assistant County <br /> Managers Willie Best and Gwen Harvey, and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker(All other staff <br /> members will be identified appropriately below) <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Ted <br /> Triebel, Vice-Chair Debbie Piscitelli, and Board members Anne Medenbleck, Susan Hallman, <br /> and Al Hartkopf. Superintendent Patrick Rhodes was also present. <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS ABSENT: Elizabeth Brown <br /> CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO CITY SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS <br /> PRESENT: Chair Pam Hemminger, Vice-Chair Lisa Stuckey, and Board Members Mia Day <br /> Burroughs, Jean Hamilton, Annetta Streater, Jamezetta Bedford, and Mike Kelley. <br /> Superintendent Neil Pedersen was also present. <br /> CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO CITY SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS <br /> ABSENT: <br /> 1. Opening Comments <br /> Chair Jacobs said that Commissioner Foushee and Commissioner Carey would be a few <br /> minutes late, and he assumes Commissioner Gordon will be here shortly. <br /> Commissioner Gordon arrived at 7:41 pm. <br /> Chair Jacobs said that Andy Sachs from the Dispute Settlement Center used to run <br /> these meetings because there used to be an opinion that the Board of County Commissioners <br /> was lording over the two school boards. He said that it is nice to say that this was discussed at <br /> the last school collaboration meeting, and everyone said that the County Commissioners could <br /> run the meeting. He thinks that this is a good sign of how well the three boards have been able <br /> to work together the last few years. This is a testimony to the members of both school boards <br /> and the superintendents. <br /> 2. Presentation of 2008-09 Boards of Education Approved Budgets <br /> a. Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools Presentation <br /> CHCCS Chair Pam Hemminger thanked the County Commissioners for starting the <br /> budget process early and for the increased communication. She said that the board submitted <br /> a continuation budget that took into account keeping current services, projected State salary <br /> increases, increased populations, inflation of utilities, and adding enough ESL teachers to cover <br /> the growing English language learner student population. Starting the process earlier will <br /> hopefully avoid the stress and panic of each year. She said that they tried to keep the <br />