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<br />Mr, Williams stated that with the cut-back of Federal aid under the Title
<br />I program and the new laws that had bean passed by the General Assembly it
<br />r_ecessiated an increase of a rather large proportion in the requested School
<br />Budget, He stated that this increase amounted to more than $290,639 over last
<br />year's request, The Budget request includes that a new Assistant Superintendent
<br />of Schools be employed to handle personnel at a salary of $17,932. He asked
<br />for additional clerioal assistant for the oentral office plus a five per cent
<br />(5~) salary raise for all existing employees. Ha stated that the County will
<br />have to pay for the employment of twenty four (2!~) teachers aides, compared
<br />with last year's allocation of fourteen (1!}) teacher's aides, in order to keep
<br />the program at its present level, The fuel crisis was cited as another reason
<br />for the increase in the budget, Mr, Williams stated that the county school
<br />unit had anticipated $177,000.00 in Title 1 money for the county kindergarten
<br />program this year, but that only $161,000.00 was allocated and that there did
<br />exist the possibility that these funds could be cut to $93,000,00 or $78,000.00
<br />depending on how the Title I Funds were divided between the County Unit and the
<br />Chapel Hi11-Carrbaro Unit. It was pointed out that the county would receive
<br />$46,000.00 from the State to help finance the kindergarten program this next
<br />year, The Capital Outlay Fund will need $746,000.00 to cover the 1973-1974
<br />expanses, This is an increase of $115,890,00 over the $630,110,00 amount
<br />budgeted last year.
<br />I~ir. Williams told the Board that the School Board will resume. its search
<br />for s site for a new elementary school as the site that had been chosen by his
<br />Board was ruled out by the State Board of Health. He stated that the Central
<br />Kindergarten would be used as an elementary school, and the other ten (10)
<br />pre-school classes would be spread among the grade schools, He said other
<br />elementary schools in the system would contain kindergartens and grades one
<br />through five as recommended by the State Department of Public Instruction. Under
<br />the present system, most of the eight (8) schools in the system have two grades,
<br />No plans to utilize the Grady Brown School have been made by the County School
<br />Board,
<br />Chairman Walker racpgnizad Tom Ward, Director of the Social Services
<br />Department. Mr, Ward stated that his agency had bean affected by the cut back
<br />in the funding of programs by the Federal Government and that legislative
<br />enactments by the General Assembly had added $80,000,00 in local. cast to the
<br />I4edicade Program as all recipients are now eligible for medical care, Ha noted
<br />that the county budget request for this year is $3,425,00 less for the Public
<br />Assistance program than last year, Pair, Ward explained that the Public Assiatanae
<br />Programs included Aid to the Aged, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Aid
<br />to Disabled and Medicaid and that this year's requested appropriation is affeoted
<br />by the transfer of the aged and the disabled programs to the Social Security
<br />Administration, The Department of Social Services is requesting $86,80!} from the
<br />county to finance general programs such as Aid To The Blind, Family Supplementary
<br />Tncome Pro ;'rams, County Medical Aid and Vocational Rehabilitatior_, These
<br />programs amount to an increase of $19,8!}6.00 over the amo~~r` requested in last
<br />year's budget. Mr, Ward stated that the area in which his agene~ felt the
<br />sharpest out of Federal 1:'unds was the assistances that had been given for
<br />salaries to the employees, This rapreseets a $59,785,00 'ncrease in county funds
<br />for the administrative budget, The request this year is $155,461,00 as compared
<br />to $9h,176.00 last year. (For a complete copy of the budget request that was
<br />filed by the Department of Social Services see pages $~ through 56 in
<br />the Commissioners Docket Book Number 8,)
<br />It was agreed that Monday, July 16, 1973, at 8 o'clock p, m. would be
<br />scheduled far the Public Hearing on the 1973-197!} Orange County Budget,
<br />There being no further business to come before the Board sa~.d meeting was
<br />adjourned to meet again qn Wednesday; Suly ll, 1973, at 8 o'olock p,m, in the
<br />District Courtroom for the purpose of continued budget hearings,
<br />C, Norman ~dalker, Chairman
<br />Betty Juna Hayes, Clerk
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