Minutes: January 21, 2000
Facilitators and Attendance
Facilitating the meeting was George Alwon of The Raleigh Consulting Group, Inc.
There were 20 members present. They are listed as follows:
| Name | Affiliation |
| Jim Talton | Chairman, Citizens Advisory Committee |
| Ann Rollins | PTA |
| Bob Williams | Retired, NCSU |
| Brooks Gulledge | Residential Contractor |
| Diana Bader | PTA |
| Don Walston | Howard, Perry and Walston |
| Dr. Edna Black | Education Management Consultant |
| Ferris Chandler | Retired, Cooper Tool |
| John Boling | SAS Institute, Inc. |
| John Dornan | Public School Forum |
| John Hood | John Locke Foundation |
| Larry Dickens | DOT |
| Maebelle Hudson | Wake ACT |
| Randy Jones | General Counsel Ð Aventis CropScience |
| Renee Shaw | CCB |
| Ross Rhudy | Raleigh/Wake Board of Realtors |
| Susan Fonville | PTA |
| Terry Yeargan | Bovis Construction Corp. |
| Tim McBrayer | Signature Publishing |
| Tony Habit | Wake Education Partnership |
Those not present are as follows:
| Name | Affiliation |
| Allen Jones | DJB Construction Group |
| Blount Williams | Alfred Williams |
| Bob Beasley | Mallinckrodt |
| Chuck Fuller | Citizens for a Sound Economy |
| Forrest Ball | Real Estate |
| Joe Sansom | State Treasurers Office |
| John Boylan | Spectrum Properties |
| John Linderman | Grubb & Ellis |
| Joyce Fennell | Teacher |
| Nellie Tomlinson | Attorney, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice |
| Truman Newberry | Architect |
Minutes
The minutes for the meeting of January 21, 2000 are as follows:
- Before the meeting started Yvonne Simons of WRAL-TV interviewed John Hood, Ann Rollins and Jim Talton.
- Dave Balz of The Haskell Company, a design build company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, gave a presentation on design build schools. He says that design build is 6% less than the typical design bid build projects. He focused on charters in addition to the new North Carolina law HB840, which has a provision to use design build and prequalified contractors. He pointed out that HB840 expires July 1, 2000 and has to be amended or it will drop. He recommended that Wake County check into this law. He also mentioned two case studies. There were some interesting scenarios presented.
- The committee decided not to break into smaller groups. They went through each of the 13 principles for developing an acceptable capital-spending plan. This list was shortened from a three-page list that was developed from the previous meeting. The committee reached a consensus on all but the first four principles. These principles will be discussed during the next meeting of January 31, 2000.