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ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Action Agenda
Item No Vja-/
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: August 4, 1993
SUBJECT: 1993-94 Budget Followup
DEPARTMENT County Manager/Budget PUBLIC HEARING YES NO x
ATTACHMENT(S) INFORMATION CONTACT
Budget Followup List County Manager, ext 2300
TELEPHONE NUMBER
Hillsborough 732-8181
Chapel Hill 968-4501
Mebane 227-2031
Durham 688-7331
PURPOSE: To review items from 1993-94 budget deliberations that may
require staff or Board followup.
BACKGROUND: During budget work sessions in June, the Board raised a
number of questions related to policy and funding aspects of the 1993-
94 operating budget. Some of these questions were resolved during the
budget discussions, while others may require additional research and
discussion. County Staff has prepared a list of the most significant
questions which may need additional followup.
RECOMMENDATION: The Manager recommends that the Board review the draft
budget followup list, amend it as deemed necessary, and provide any
needed direction to staff on specific elements of the followup list.
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1993-94 Budget Follow-up List
August 1993
1. School Funding
Strategy for budgeting funds for the schools and information on the final budget: Tie
money with outcome - How effective is each new program? What are the potential
merger implications of new programs and other funding issues such as pay supplements?
(Board)
Disposition: The Board may want to consider a special worksession to deal with
the many issues surrounding school funding. Staff will request
that each school system submit a copy of their adopted budget
highlighting additional continuation and expansion items which
were funded.
School construction standards and classroom size standards (Commissioner Gordon)
Disposition: The School Issues Discussion Group to discuss and report back to
each of the three boards.
Definition of equity and of recurring capital (Commissioner Gordon)
Disposition: Staff recommends that this topic be included in the special
worksession dealing with school issues.
Fund balance for the schools (Board)
Disposition: Manager to work with the two Superintendents to review the
present policy for fund balance and report back to the Board any
recommended changes.
Impact Fees for Elementary School Space - Fee Collections, Appropriations, Reserve for
Affordable Housing (Board)
Disposition: Staff has identified funds from the Chestnut Oaks Project to be
considered as a funding source to reimburse the impact fee for
affordable housing projects. Planning Director will shortly be
presenting alternatives on addressing impact fees and affordable
housing. Staff is working with the towns to work out the
collection of the fee. Staff will develop a 10 year capital
improvements plan for the schools for the 1994-99 CIP to address
the Board's concern regarding the time necessary to accumulate
funds and disburse.
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Additional School Capital Funding Needs (Board)
Disposition: Staff recommends that this topic, including possible new
elementary school space, be discussed in the special work session.
2. Emergency Medical Services
Feasibility of ringing down non-emergency calls to the appropriate responding
jurisdiction (Commissioner Halkiotis)
Disposition: Staff will implement a pilot effort to incrementally down load
certain non-emergency calls to the Sheriff's Department,
examining the work load and staffing impact. Staff and 911
Communications Group will monitor the program and report back
to the Board prior to the 1994-95 budget worksessions.
Educating the Public on the use of the 911 system (Commissioner Halkiotis)
Disposition: Staff and the 911 Communications Group will continue work on
this issue and report back to the Board periodically on progress in
this ongoing public information effort.
3. Animal Protection Society Agreement
Include in the written contract the licensing of animals and collection of licensing fees
as part of the adoption process (Commissioner Willhoit)
Disposition: Manager's Office and Health Director to incorporate a provision
in the contract between the County and APS for shelter services,
that animal licensing fees will be collected as an animal is adopted
from the shelter.
4. Tennis Courts at Orange High School
Include full funding for this project in the Capital Improvements Plan (Commissioner
Gordon)
Disposition: In order to accelerate funding for energy retrofitting projects,
$26,000 was borrowed from the tennis court resurfacing project.
Staff is to include the restoration of these funds as part of the
1994-99 Capital Improvements Plan.
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5. Update Board travel policy (Commissioner Carey)
Disposition: Board travel policy to be on the August 4, 1993 Commissioner's
meeting agenda.
6. Library
Friends of the Carrboro Library - Request for Funding for a library in Carrboro (Board)
Disposition: A task force appointed by the Regional Library is studying this
issue and the possibility of reallocating other library resources.
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7. Merit Pay Plan
Review effectiveness of existing plan and explore alternative plans (Board)
Disposition: Staff suggests that the Board consider a worksession on the merit
pay plan to discuss the various issues prior to the•1994-95 budget
worksessions. Further information to assist in identifying the
issues for worksession discussion will be presented at the August
17 Board meeting.
8. Restoration of Fairview Park (Board)
Disposition: Recreation and Parks, with assistance from Public Works, will
oversee repair to the park from existing CIP funds.
9. Funding Equity for the Town Library and Recreation (Commissioner Gordon)
Disposition: Staff needs further direction from the Board.
10. Energy
Report showing energy consumption use for School and County facilities; Priority order
of energy retrofitting projects and the associated payback period for projects; energy
consumption initiatives (Commissioners Halkiotis and Willhoit)
Disposition: The County Engineer, with assistance from the Public Works
Director, and help from Roger Hayes from UNC-Chapel Hill, will
report to the Board on these issues by October.
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