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1992 -93 <br />• 5.74% increase in current expense appropriation <br />• 2% cost of living adjustment for County employees <br />• economic slowdown causes increased DSS expenditures <br />• 12.7 additional full -time employee positions approved <br />• one new position in Human Services for Data Processing to assist in the development and <br />support of the Master Client Index (MCI) <br />• opening of Government Services Center, Efland Cheeks Community Center, and Homestead <br />Community Center impacts operational budget <br />• increase in the Social Services budget in order to fulfill the mandate to provide in home aide <br />services (CHORE) <br />• one Deputy Sheriff's position to meet the increased demand placed on the Court <br />Transportation Division in the Sheriff's Department <br />• conversion of existing temporary positions to permanent to address long- standing employees <br />who are not permanent and not entitled to benefits <br />• slowing growth in one cent local option sales tax <br />• General Assembly freezes State shared revenues (intangibles, beer & wine, homestead <br />exemption reimbursements, inventory reimbursements) at 1990 -91 levels to make up for <br />State budget shortfall <br />1993 -94 <br />• 9.83% increase in current expense appropriation <br />• 2% cost of living salary adjustment for County employees, and a revised merit plan to address <br />our Work Planning and Performance Review Program <br />• 24.525 additional full -time employee positions approved; one new positions in Register of <br />Deeds to handle the increased real property transactions, one new position in planning to help <br />achieve Board's goal of assessing the impact of development on the County, two additional <br />positions in the Sheriff's department to handle increased workload and to implement fire <br />code inspection program, additional positions added in Human Services to handle increased <br />reports of child abuse and neglect, personnel also needed in the area of child support <br />enforcement <br />• first installment of debt service for the 1992Education Bonds, payment of $2.1 million is the <br />equivalent of just under five cents on the property tax rate <br />• implementation of staffed solid waste convenience centers to replace unstaffed greenboxes <br />• tax base growth slows- only 1.5% over previous year <br />• new motor vehicle billing and collecting system under NCGS 105 -330 <br />• State shared revenues remain frozen <br />• Solid waste ordinance adopted <br />• First year of State mandated fire inspection program and related fee revenue <br />_,,] — ' <br />