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BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: March 31, 1998
Action Agenda
Item No. j,
SUBJECT: 1998-2008 Capital Investment Plan
DEPARTMENT: County ManagerBudget PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) ~Vo ~`
BUDGET AMENDMENT: (Y~ 1Vo ``'
ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT:
1998-2008 CIP (previously distributed) Rod Visser, ext 200
Donna Dean, ext 2151
TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
Hillsborough 732-8181
Chapel Hill 968-4501
Durham 688-7331
Mebane 227-2031
PURPOSE: To review and discuss the Manager's Recommended 1998-2008 Capital Investment
Plan (CIP).
BACKGROUND: The Manager presented his recommended ten year CIP for the period 1998-
2008 at the Board's regular meeting on March 17, 1998. The Board scheduled a public hearing on
the CIP for Apri17, 1998.
This March 31 work session provides the Board with its first opportunity to review in depth the
various elements of the recommended CIP. There are a number of aspects of the CIP that the Board
may particularly want to discuss, as outlined below:
• School Projects
• Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools
• Overview of Requested Projects
• Discussion of Recent Bids
• Orange County Schools
• Overview of Requested Projects
• County Capital Policy
• Review recent changes
• Proposal to revert dedicated one cent for possible recreation%school projects to
general support of County Capital projects
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• County Projects
• Proposed Private Placement Projects
• Senior Center
• Whitted Human Services
• Northern Human Services
• Pay-As-You-Go Projects
• Information Technology -plan endorsed by IT Committee
• Building Maintenance -relationship between Public Works Building Inventory and
CIP ~ .
• Equipment and Vehicles
• Bond Projects
• Affordable Housing -policy formulation, timing of projects
• Efland Sewer -policy formulation, timing of projects
• Recreation and Parks -policy formulation (with Town of Chapel Hill), timing of
projects
There are likely other specific projects about which Board members may need additional
information. Department heads will be available to respond to Board questions and to follow up
with additional research where needed. Additional deliberation and adoption of the CIP are
tentatively slated for the regular meetings on April 21 and/or May 6.
RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board discuss the CIP and
identify areas of additional information that are needed before the Board conducts final
deliberations and adopts the 1998-2008 CIP.