Minutes: March 10, 2000
Facilitators and Attendance
Facilitating the meeting was George Alwon of The Raleigh Consulting Group, Inc.
There were 16 members present. They are listed as follows:
| Name | Affiliation |
| Jim Talton | Chairman, Citizens Advisory Committee |
| Allen Jones | DJB Construction Group |
| Ann Rollins | PTA |
| Diana Bader | PTA |
| Don Walston | Howard, Perry and Walston |
| Dr. Edna Black | Education Management Consultant |
| Ferris Chandler | Retired, Cooper Tool |
| Joe Sansom | State Treasurers Office |
| John Boling | SAS Institute, Inc. |
| John Hood | John Locke Foundation |
| Larry Dickens | DOT |
| Randy Jones | General Counsel - Aventis CropScience |
| Ross Rhudy | Raleigh/Wake Board of Realtors |
| Susan Fonville | PTA |
| Terry Yeargan | Bovis Construction Corp. |
| Tim McBrayer | Signature Publishing |
Those not present are as follows:
| Name | Affiliation |
| Blount Williams | Alfred Williams |
| Bob Beasley | Mallinckrodt |
| Bob Williams | Retired, NCSU |
| Brooks Gulledge | Residential Contractor |
| Chuck Fuller | Citizens for a Sound Economy |
| Forrest Ball | Real Estate |
| John Boylan | Spectrum Properties |
| John Dornan | Public School Forum |
| John Linderman | Grubb & Ellis |
| Maebelle Hudson | Wake ACT |
| Nellie Tomlinson | Attorney, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice |
| Renee Shaw | CCB |
| Tony Habit | Wake Education Partnership |
| Truman Newberry | Architect |
Minutes
The minutes for the meeting of March 10, 2000 are as follows:
1. Bill McNeal, Associate Superintendent, WCPSS, presented "Programs and Their Impact on Facilities." Some of the points of discussion were:
- WCPSS board goal
- More students are graduating
- Instructional Services Division Mission Statement
- Average retention rate after 24 hours
- Space standards
- Impact of Technology
- Magnet status impact
- 8th grade EOG math
2. Raymond Boutwell, Wake County Budget Director, made a presentation on "County School Finances." Some of the points of discussion were:
- Financial forecast 2000-2004
- Fiscal realities - We are spending more than we are taking in.
- Expenditures exceed revenues since FY1998
- How have we been spending more?
- Unreserved and undesignated fund balance
- How have we been spending more?
- What is the state of our economy?
- The economy unemployment rates 12/99
- Inflation rate
- Fed funds rate on the upswing
- Wake County's historical growth in property value
- Real property excise tax
- Sales tax revenue growth rate
- Strategies used to avoid dramatic changes
- Fund balance appropriation-original budget
- What is the outlook for the next few years?
- Steps toward a revenue neutral tax rate
- Funding for schools
- County appropriations for current expense
- Current expense appropriations 1977-1999
- Current expense appropriations percentage increases
- Financing school construction
- Schools capital building program funding
- County funding of school capital building program
- Phase IIIA
- Phase IIIB
- Post IIIB
- Annual cash outlay for school construction program
- Distribution of county cash outlay for schools construction program
- Debt capacity, debt capacity limits, per capita debt, debt as % of tax base, Wake County debt service as % of budget and debt service as % of capital investment
3. Michael Nicklas, Innovative Design, gave a slide presentation on "Environmentally Sensitive and Cost Efficient Schools". He gave some statistics on fluorescent lights versus daylight. He showed several schools in the county which Innovative Design has built.