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185 UPON MOTION of Commissioner Privette, seconded by Commissioner Fennel and unanimously carried, the Board voted to give the County Manager direction to include in the proposed FY 2000 budget an increase in the Education ADM Equivalent Funding (per pupil expenditures) for FY 2000 from $810.00 per pupil to $961.00 per pupil based upon the following spending categories. Direct Current Expense Grounds Maintenance Building Maintenance Nurses Fiber Optic Expenditure 825 00 39 00 93 00 3 00 i 00 961 00 Mr. Hartsell advised that the County and the Schools would need to enter into a definitive agreement concerning the County's assuming the building maintenance responsibility for the school facilities. NEW BUSINESS Financinq for the New Westside Hiqh School for $30 Million - Public Hearinq - 6:30 P.M. The Chairman announced that this was the date, place and hour fixed by the Board of Commissioners for a public hearing to consider whether the Board of Commissioners should approve a proposed plan of financing in an aggregate principal amount of up to $30,000,000, which plan would involve the entry by the County into an installment payment contract pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes 160A-20, as amended, with the proceeds thereof to be used to pay all or a portion of the costs of acquiring certain real property, constructing thereon a new public high school to be known as Westside High School and acquiring certain equipment related thereto (collectively the "Project"), which Project was described in the notice of public hearing published in The Independent Tribune on April 8, 1999 (the "Notice"), and under said installment payment contract the County would secure the repayment by it of moneys advanced pursuant to such contract by granting a security interest in and lien on all or a portion of the Project. The Board of Commissioners first ratified and approved the designation of the meeting as a public hearing on the proposed plan of financing, the call of the public hearing and publication of the Notice. It was then announced that the Board of Commissioners would immediately hear anyone who might wish to be heard on such matter. No one appeared, either in person or by attorney, to be heard on such matter or the advisability of the plan of financing and the Clerk to the Board of Commissioners announced that no written statement relating to said matters had been received by the Clerk or the Finance Director except Ms. Karen Schmitt, residing at 5731 Monticello Drive, Concord, who appeared in person and stated her support of the proposed funding for the new high school; Mr. Sherrill Laney, residing at 6177 Miller Road, Kannapolis, who appeared in person and questioned the availability of funds that he said Commissioners Fennel and Privette had stated during last year's campaign were available to meet school needs for the next five years; Ms. Marilyn Barnhardt, residing at 5800 Wabash Lane, Concord, who appeared in person and stated in her opinion the cities and the taxpayers living within the cities should take over the funding for their schools; and Ms. Marti Soltis, resident of the Odell Elementary School District (3269 Woodchuck Drive, Kannapolis), who appeared in person and stated her support for funding the new high school with the understanding that a proven quality, long-term facility will be built and addressed the need to begin planning for a new middle school and a new elementary school. Ail of the foregoing statements were duly considered by the Board of Commissioners. It was then announced that the public hearing was closed. Discussion of Joint Trip to Iredell County and the Future of School Construction in Cabarrus County - Commissioner Fennel Commissioner Fennel distributed a written statement concerning the future of school construction in Cabarrus County and his observations from the recent visit to Iredell County by the Commissioners and School Board