For OP readers: I just sent the following email inviting the community to the presentation of the preliminary results of the fiscal impact analysis. Hope you can attend:
Dear Friends and
Neighbors,
I know many of you
are interested in the University's development of Carolina North. As our
planning has progressed, the community has expressed its interest in the fiscal
impact of the Carolina North campus. At a joint meeting of the Orange County
Commissioners, the Chapel Hill Town Council and the Carrboro Aldermen this
Thursday evening, June 26 at 7:00 p.m., the consulting team
doing the work, TischlerBise and The Chesapeake Group, will present their
analysis and findings.
The meeting will
be at the Orange County Southern Human Services Building on
Homestead Road.
The community is
welcome and encouraged to attend. If you are a neighborhood or community group
contact, please share this with your group or others who may be interested. We
have had great attendance from the community at Carolina North meetings and hope
you can join us Thursday night.
Best,
Linda
Issues:
Comments
Presentation is of Preliminary Report
It may not be clear from my email that this meeting is for the consultants to make a preliminary report and to double check the underlying premises and assumptions of their work. I expect there will be another meeting when their report is final.
Linda Convissor
Alternates?
Other presentation times?
Jason,
My initial post may have given the impression that this is the final report; in fact, it is a presentation of preliminary results. There is no advance draft for distribution and the elected officials will not be expected to take positions on anything that is presented. They were invited to hear the presentation so they could get an initial sense of the scope and direction of the work, ask clarifying questions and help the consultants to refine assumptions on which their evaluation is based. The draft has not been received or reviewed by the committee of managers and university representatives guiding the process. This is more of an update session with the elected officials. It's being held now before the summer recesses begin.
Linda Convissor
No draft available?
FYI about posting events
Thanks for posting this, Linda. For future reference, you can also post content here as an "event," and it will automatically get added to the OP calendar. It has all the same features of a blog entry, plus a specific date and time.
I won't be back in town until tomorrow, but I will try to get to this meeting. I served on the fiscal equity subcommitee of the late Horace Williams Citizens Committee.