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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD • COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 8, 1999 <br />SUBJECT: Budget Work Session <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Budget <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />■ as noted in "Background" section John Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />Donna Dean, ext 2151 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4601 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031, <br />PURPOSE: To discuss major elements of the Manager's Recommended 1999-2000 Budget, <br />including school funding, employee compensation, and major departmental policy and funding <br />issues. <br />BACKGROUND: The County Manager presented his recommended budget for FY 1999-2000 <br />to the Board of Commissioners on May 27, 1999. Budget public hearings were held on May 27 <br />and June 3. Budget work sessions have been scheduled for June 8 and June 15, with adoption <br />of the 1999-2000 budget ordinance and related documents scheduled for the Board's June 21, <br />1999 regular meeting. <br />Various Commissioners have posed questions or asked for additional information regarding <br />certain aspects of the recommended budget. Those requests are listed in Attachment 1, along <br />with any additional information that has been developed to date. The balance of this abstract <br />(with additional attachments) addresses the major elements of the 1999-2000 budget that are <br />scheduled for Board deliberation on June 8. <br />School Budgets <br />As has been the practice in recent years, the first June budget work session begins with review <br />and discussion of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools' and Orange County Schools' operating <br />budget requests. The Manager and Budget Director will make a brief presentation outlining <br />school current expense funding recommendations, using the "blue sheets" (Attachments 2a <br />and 2b) as points of reference. The Board will recall that "blue sheets" have been used in <br />recent years to provide a thumbnail summary of the elements of each school systems' funding <br />increase request and the degree to which the Manager's recommended budget would allow the <br />overall schools' funding requests to be addressed (recognizing that allocation decisions <br />