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346 .Mr. Joseph W. Howland, Mr. Lucien Sellet and Ms. Ilse Sonnet. Commiss,pner Garret'_nominated Ms. Tlse Sonnet to one of these vacancies and Commissioner Gustaveson nominated Lucien Sullet to one of the Vacanacies. Upon motion of Commissioner Pinney, seconded by Commis- sioner Whitted, it was moved and adopted that the nomination be closed and that Ms. Ilse Sonnet and Lucien Sellet be ac- cepted by acclamation as members to the Chapel Hill Board Adjustment. Item IV - A The County Manager requested that the Bd., at this time, receive the requested Budget Amendment from Tom Ward, Social Services Director. The $d. agreed to defer from the Agenda for the purpose of hearing Mr. Ward's presentation. The Finance Director, Neal Evans, filed with the Board a Memorandum concerning the Social Services Budget Amendment request. Social Services Budget Amendment " Attached is a Proposed Budget Amendment that would transfer funds to cover the County Share of increased Chore Services and several smaller items, Sales Tax, Health Insurance, and Janitorial Service, as well as redistributing or budgeting some previously approved items including the personnel increase of Dec. 1, 1975, Child Support, Enforcement, and Title XX Legal Aid and Chore Service Support. l) The Personnel amendment of December 1 included only a local cost of $7,500 assigned to salaries. The actual cost including State Shares was $28,000 and this is distributed among Personnel, Travel, Equipment, and Fringe Benefits with the additional $20,500 coming from State Aid to Administration. 2) Chore Service had an original appropriation of $47,242 on the Chore Service -line item, and $15,750 in Personnel. It should all be budgeted together for a line item of $63.000. Through January $47,634 had been encumbered. By April 1, the en~ire appropriation will have been expended. This over expend- iture.:has come about because more than the budget number of Chore Workers have been employed at an average cost above the above the budget estimates. To budget sufficient funds for the remaining months at the average cost of December and January will cost $36,750, and I have included this figure in the Proposed Budget Amendment as requested by the Department Head, as well as transferring the item $15,750 from the Personnel budget. I would recommend, however, that only $11,000 be approved for additional funding which would place the Department in the position of providing Chore Service at the monthly level originally approved. Chore Servie is an optional service and any increased optional services offered by the County ought to be approved only in the context of County wide responsibilities in the budget process. The Budget Amendment doss include the full amount with a matching revenue item (75~): in State Aid to Administration since the match comes from this source rather than a specific line item match. The net effect is that AFDC Day Care and Medicaid reduction would fund the local share of Chore Service. 3) Sales Tax, Health Insurance and Workmen's Compens- ation for employees, and Janitorial Services were underbudgeted and the County Share, approximately $1700, to meet these additions is recommended to come from a re-appropriation of Medicaid Funds. 4) Support Enforcement is a redistribution of funds previously appropriated on 12/11/75. The Personnel and Fringe Benefits are reduced and redistributed to Professional Services and Telephones which were not included in the original budget,