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
As I'm unable to attend that night, I'd like to know if there will be an alternate community presentation for this. Will it be broadcast or rebroadcast on the government access channel, or (even better) be on the CN website to watch? Will the support materials be made available there as well?
Linda, I understand that this is an ongoing process that isn't yet complete. But speaking particularly from the viewpoint of being asked as a member of the planning board to review the Innovation Center outside of the context of a master plan for Carolina North, having access to the most up-to-date information about this and other broad-reaching reports would be helpful. Having even preliminary results would make it much easier for members of the community who are trying to digest an enormous project to contextualize some of the information they are hearing. I'm glad that you're making such an effort to distribute the information about this presentation to the broader community, but it would still be useful if the contents of the presentation could be made available for those unable to attend.
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.
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