
{"id":21828,"date":"2011-11-10T09:39:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=21828"},"modified":"2011-11-10T09:39:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:39:31","slug":"school-board-oks-elementary-11-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/11\/10\/school-board-oks-elementary-11-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"School board OKs elementary 11 funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rose Laudicina<br \/>\n<em>Staff Write<\/em>r<\/strong><br \/>\nDespite a shrinking budget, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education voted unanimously last week to approve $2.1 million in funding to jumpstart the construction of elementary school 11. <\/p>\n<p>By providing $2.1 million from the district\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fund balance \u00e2\u20ac\u201c basically, the CHCCS savings account \u00e2\u20ac\u201c construction of the elementary school can begin as early as March 2012, allowing the school to open its doors by August 2013, and thus helping to prevent increased overcrowding of schools.<br \/>\nThe district projects that in the school year 2012-13, the elementary schools will be 101 students over the Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (SAPFO) capacity. <\/p>\n<p>SAPFO requires that in order for new residential developments to be approved, adequate school space must be available. <\/p>\n<p>The school board\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to provide funding for the new school, however, hangs on the decision of the Orange County Board of Commissioners to commit to reimbursing the board for the funds, in addition to committing to funding the entire project. <\/p>\n<p>Todd LoFrese, assistant superintendent for support services for the district, said that county officials have indicated that the proposal would be on the county commissioners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Nov. 15 meeting agenda. <\/p>\n<p>LoFrese also said that County Manager Frank Clifton and Clarence Grier, county finance director, plan to propose to the commissioners that bonds for the project should be sold by April 2012, reducing the amount the school board would have to provide from $3 million to the now-proposed $2.1 million. <\/p>\n<p>School board Vice Chair Mia Burroughs said that she was looking forward to working with the commissioners on elementary school 11 and thought that it was a great way for the two boards to work together to meet the needs of the kids in the school district. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have great faith in the county commissioners to honor our needs because we all have the same kids and the same constituents,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Burroughs said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CHCCS Board of Education voted unanimously last week to approve $2.1 million in funding to jumpstart the construction of elementary school 11. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21829,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828\/revisions\/21829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}