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4 Attachment 1 BOCC Questions/Information Requests —1999 -2000 Recommended Budget The information provided below and in the referenced attachments is intended to respond to all Commissioner requests for additional budget information received as of June 3, 1999. In some cases, additional information is still being developed. Staff will be happy to provide clarification as needed on material provided here, and to provide additional research and analysis on any new information requests, or any Commissioner request that may have been overlooked here. 1. Line Item Summary Attachment 1a provides a recap of all County line items that comprise the $100.6 million recommended budget. Staff can also provide line item detail for any department that Board members may wish to review. 2. Local Salary Supplements The chart at Attachment 1 b reflects information provided by the two superintendents regarding the amount and average dollar amount paid for each category for teacher/administrator local salary supplements. 3. Costs of Each New Paramedic Position This information is found in the table at the top of page 61 of Appendix B of the budget document. 4. Chapel Hill/Carrboro Schools Salary Supplement "Cap" As. shown in Attachment 1b, the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Schools local supplement schedule provides that new employees to that school system may receive credit for a maximum of 10 years on the local supplement schedule for non-Chapel Hill/Carrboro Schools' service. For example, if a teacher is hired with 20 years experience in North Carolina schools other than Chapel Hill/Carrbo'ro, that teacher would receive 10 years experience credit on the local supplement schedule and the 10 percent local supplement. The Chapel Hill/Carrboro, Schools requested budget included provision for removal of the "cap" in the teacher local supplement program after four consecutive years of successful teaching experience. The memorandum from CHCCS Finance Director Grace Holton at Attachment 1 c shows the estimated cost of this for 1999-00 as $151,000, along with the projected cost for four future years. This is an issue of internal priorities for the Chapel Hill/Carrboro School system and how the, School Board chooses to allocate the overall school current expense appropriation approved by the Board of Commissioners.. 6. Recommended Budget vs. Approved Budget— 10 Year Trends The spreadsheets at Attachment ld provide a ten year history of dollar and percentage increases by department, considering both recommended and approved budgets from 1989-90 through 1998-99. 6. General Fund Tax Rate Trends A table showing changes in the tax rate since 1989-90 is provided at Attachment 1 e.