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<br />!}. New and EP[panded Programs: $237,1!}6,23,
<br />Tha Board of Education hoe spent the past year in identifying program
<br />needs of the school system, Parents, students, teachers, school staff,
<br />and the community at largo have participated in this process, The new
<br />programs proposed in this budget represent the minimum improvements
<br />expected of the school system by the community, Chief among these are
<br />the following:
<br />Introduction of a career exploration program in the junior high
<br />school grades,
<br />Provision of some released time for elementary teachers (one
<br />hour per week) by the provision of special art and music teachers.
<br />A five percent increase in salary and the provision of annual
<br />leave for classified employees who are employed during the school
<br />year.
<br />Continued modest imorovemer_ts in the amount of funds for instructional
<br />supplies, field trips, furniture replacement, sports programs,
<br />summer school, and maintenance services,
<br />The Capital Outlay request reflects three categories of capital needs:
<br />1. Final completion of the new k~hesus Road Elementary School which
<br />opened on January 2, 1973: $17,741.50.
<br />2, The construction of an occupational addition at the Chapel Hill
<br />Senior High School: $540,000,00. The high school was originally
<br />built without vocational facilities. This addition is an attempt
<br />to meet an urgent program need at the high school. The community
<br />and the commissioners have bean advised for the past several years
<br />to anticipate this request for the 1973-74 school year.
<br />3. Regular yearly aap~tal outlay requirement:
<br />figure represents the minimum on-going capital9needs~of~tha school
<br />system in order to keep the system functioning in a normal business-
<br />like manner.
<br />Thus, the total capital outlay request is for $853,797.58.
<br />In summation Dr, Hanes told the Board that $1,327,273,00 would be required to
<br />maintain present school programs and services. He stated that $27,273.00 increase
<br />this year represented a five par~cent (s~) increase in the salary of ell classified
<br />personnel, The five per cent (5,0) raise granted to teachers by the General
<br />Assembly would require $4,34b,00 to meet the state salary schedule for the forth-
<br />five (45) teachers who were paid entirel from lecal f
<br />$90,897.00 would be required to replace federal funds that~hadabeentwithdrawn from
<br />the school pro ram. Dr, Har_ea stated that the school unit expected to .receive
<br />approximately 40,000.00 from Title I that would be used to finance the kindergarten
<br />program, but that the unit expected to lose about $(}0,000.00 in Headstart funds.
<br />Ha stated that between $56,000,00 and $90,000.00 would be needed to continue the
<br />kinder~erten program, and that $237,1)x.6.00 would be required to institute new
<br />programs, The per pupil request would amount tc $172,$1,
<br />For a complete copy of the Chapel Fill-Carrboro City Schools Current Expense
<br />Budget Request and Capital Outlay Budget Request for 1973-1974 see pages 61 through
<br />78 in Commissioners Docket Book Plumber 8.
<br />Chairman Walker recognized Dr, 0, David Garvin, District health Officer.
<br />Dr, Garvin stated that the requirements of the newly enacted Federal Laws would
<br />require the Health Department to furnish full medical services to old age
<br />recipients, however, there had not bean provided any Federal Funds for the
<br />implementation of the program. He, therefore, was not in a position to estimate
<br />the coat of the new program.
<br />Dr. Garvin brought to the attention of the Board several new State legislative
<br />enactments that would require additional county funding, He read House Bill #296
<br />that would require the local Health Department to issue a permit prior to the
<br />construction of a home or the moving or placement of a mobile home. This means
<br />that an additional Sanitarian will be needed to inspect the premises,
<br />It was brought to the attention of the Board that lack of communication
<br />between the Sanitarians and the local Health office was causing comments and
<br />criticisms. Dr, Garvin suggested that to install a radio communications system
<br />that could be utilized by ra.a department would be of tremendous assistance. _
<br />The County Administrator advised Dr, Garvin that the county was currently trying.
<br />to secure a radio band that could be used by several of the county's departments,
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