HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 09-07-2005-5nORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: September 7, 2005
Action Agenda
Item No. 5-n
SUBJECT: Contribution to Ronald Aycock Scholarship Fund
DEPARTMENT: Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No
ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT:
None John Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300
TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
Hillsborough 732-8181
Chapel Hill 968-4501
Durham 688-7331
Mebane 336-227-2031
PURPOSE: To ratify plans to appropriate $1,000 as a contribution to the Ronald Aycock
Scholarship Fund,
BACKGROUND: For more than 30 years, Ron Aycock worked beside county commissioners
and managers as staff member and Executive Director of the North Carolina Association of
County Commissioners to bring prosperity to North Carolina counties and to gain the
Association recognition as one of the strongest state associations in the nation. Ron carried out
his leadership responsibilities as a champion of good government with expertise, gentlemanly
aplomb, and a sense of humor that vitalized Association activities for decades.
He recently presided at his final Association conference, where the Association Board of
Directors honored him with a new scholarship in his name at the public administration program
run by the Association's long-term educational partner, the UNC School (and Institute) of
Government. Ron received both his undergraduate and law degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill and
is very supportive of the University. To initiate this honor, the Board voted to commit at least
$25,000 as a match for gifts from Ron's current and former colleagues, friends, and admirers
including associations, counties and others,
The Orange County Board of Commissioners has previously informally indicated its desire to
pledge $1,000 to the scholarship fund to help promote the Aycock Scholarship to become one
of North Carolina's top educational incentives for attracting bright, committed students to public
service in this state. This agenda item provides an opportunity to formally ratify that pledge
and to appropriate $1,000 for this purpose.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: This action would appropriate $1,000 of funds currently budgeted in the
General Fund Commissioner Contingency account.
RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board appropriate $1,000 from
the Commissioner Contingency account in the 2005-06 Orange County budget as a contribution
to the Aycock Scholarship Fund.