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Wednesday, January 29, 2003
Gordon to Connect Board, Schools
Conflict over site of
3rd high school
By Mary McGuirt
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of
Education addressed concerns from the
Orange County Board of
Commissioners by announcing Monday
night the appointment of Commissioner
Alice Gordon as liaison to the commis
sioners in the search for a site for the sys
tem’s third high school.
The appointment of Gordon was influ
enced by earlier comments made by
commissioners Margaret Brown and
Barry Jacobs regarding their exclusion
from discussions about the possible use of
Southern Park as a site for the new school.
“It strikes me as an odd way to do
business," Jacobs said, addressing the
issue. “It’s not that I don’t bust them, it’s
just that the process could be inclusive."
After the announcement was made,
Etta Pisano, co-chairwoman of the
school board’s redistricting committee,
urged the board to continue working
with the commissioners. “I hope you
will ask for Gordon’s help,” she said. “It
can be a win-win situation.”
The site for Chapel Hill’s third high
school, originally intended to be com
pleted by 2005, has yet to be determined.
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Steve Scroggs, Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City Schools assistant superintendent for
support services, said that although the
high school was supposed to be com
pleted within two years, the search for a
site is ongoing.
“We’re not going to have a third high
school in 2005. It’s
not going to hap
pen,” he said,
adding that the
school could be
finished by 2006.
Scroggs said
CHCCS has about
S3O million to
work with in build
ing the school.
The two areas
‘We’re not going to
have a third high school
in 2005. It’s not going
to happen. ”
Steve Scroggs
CHCCS Assistant Superintendent
that originally were proposed as sites for
the school are located on Rockhaven
Road and Old Lystra Road.
Scroggs said that the estimated cost
for construction on Rockhaven Road
would be about $5.2 million and that
construction on the Old Lystra site
would cost about $4.75 million, not
including potential additional costs.
Proposals to build the new school at
the Southern Park site were made after
residents recognized a need for a high
school in the southern part of town. “We
already have two high schools in the
northern part,” Pisano said.
Original plans for Southern Park were
designed to use the entire 73-acre area,
located in the vicinity of Dogwood Acres,
to build a park for the town of Chapel Hill.
However, Scroggs presented die pos
sibility of dividing the area into four seg
ments and building the high school on a
20-acre portion of the site. He went on
to say there wasn’t a “game plan” yet.
When consider
ing the Southern
Park site, Scroggs
said, the main area
of focus should be
on how much
could be built there
and how much of
the park would
remain.
Also, he said,
building a school
in the park would require sharing infra
structure, such as parking lots and roads,
with the park and other businesses.
Upon conclusion of this discussion
Monday night, residents were allowed
to voice their opinions about the issue.
Many said they were frustrated with
problems in communication with the
town and the school board.
Pisano agreed and said she thought the
problems were slowing down the process.
The issue was tabled for further dis
cussion. The school board next meets
Feb. 6 at the Chapel Hill Town Hall.
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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Orange School Board Accepts
Timetable to Find New Leader
Agenda to guide 2nd superintendent hunt
ByJessa Giroux
Staff Writer
The Orange County Board of
Education has finalized an improved
schedule for conducting its second
search for anew superintendent.
The initial search began in September
after former Superintendent Randy
Bridges left to take another superinten
dent position in South Carolina.
The search restarted after a Dec. 21
meeting in which the board was “divided”
about what the search’s outcome should
be, said Allison Schafer, legal counsel and
director of policy for the North Carolina
School Boards Association. The board
first made its decision in a closed-door ses
sion that, some residents later argued, was
illegal under the N.C. Open Meetings
Law. Advertising costs of $250 for the
open position are the only additional fees
for the new search.
Applications for the position are due
Feb. 12, after which the board will meet to
discuss candidates and to conduct inter
views. The board will meet again March
18 to narrow the candidate field, and it
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plans to make its final selection April 16.
A group of parents arrived at ajan. 6
board meeting to voice its support for
Bert L’Homme, one of the original super
intendent candidates, in the new search.
L’Homme, who is Durham County
Schools’ associate superintendent for
instruction, and Jeanie Freshcom, asso
ciate superintendent for Scodand
County Schools, were the school board’s
original candidates.
But L’Homme has since decided not
to apply for the position a second time.
The parents expressed their desire to
be a larger part of the selection process
and hoped that there would not be a sec
ond search. A community forum did not
occur for the first superintendent search,
and “people said they didn’t know the
candidates,” said school board
Chairwoman Brenda Stephens.
This time, the board added a much
welcomed community forum to its
search. The forum is planned for April
14. “Whenever there’s official board
response to the media, we want everyone
to adhere to it this time,” Stephens said.
Parentjackie Wolfe, a L’Homme sup
porter, said she would “keep an open
mind" about the future candidates.
Wolfe said that she remains optimistic
about the next set of candidates and that
the selection process “will probably be
improved, but I’m not sure it’ll result in
a better candidate.”
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“The man for the job is gone,” she
said.
The community’s need to have a
voice through the planned forum and
the need for a selection timeline were
main topics of discussion at the Jan. 21
meeting, said Anne D’Annunzio,
Orange County Schools spokeswoman.
Among the issues discussed at the
meeting was Schafer’s suggestion that
board members hear comments from
the public and address them at future
meetings.
Board members hope the organiza
tion and conciseness of the search’s
schedule will make it more successful.
In addition to greater emphasis on
public feedback, board member Delores
Simpson said, the board needs “to cover
every avenue so that there will not be any
doubt for what we want for a superinten
dent or not want for a superintendent.”
Simpson said she believes that “ironing
out all the fine points and then coming up
with a consensus" will be the effective
approach in improving the board’s search.
“We probably rushed (the first
search) too much,” said Simpson, even
though she believes that the board took
all the appropriate steps in interviewing
candidates in its last search.
Board officials hope to improve the
fairness of the interviews as well. Stephens
said the board wants to assure that “every
one will have an equitable interview."
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