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<br />Spacial Assessment, the County will collect about $13,500 from last
<br />year's $32,367 expenditure for the Road Assessment Program, and it is
<br />estimated that $15,000 will become available from that $32,367, plus the
<br />second year payment from the $32,367. The AFDC-IV~D Program is paying
<br />for itself. The Finance Director stated that all Court related fees were
<br />decreasing.
<br />Mr. Evans stated that the Revenue Sharing Fund was proposed to be
<br />$485,000, and $10,000 from the Utility Fund.
<br />Chairman Whitted asked if the Colonial Hills Water Line refund had
<br />been paid and the County Manager stated that the entire amount had not
<br />been paid.
<br />The Board requested that A. B. Coleman, County Attorney, check with
<br />the Town of Mebane concerning their payment of monies owned Orange County.
<br />The Finance Director, stated that the fund balance from the Health
<br />Department is now shown, and the Finance Office will not know what the
<br />fund balance will be until the end of the fiscal year.
<br />The fund balance for the County is $1,711,213. This estimate is con-
<br />servative as the fund balance could be as~~uch as $200,000. The grand
<br />total of General Fund Resources for the County is $12,157,110. About
<br />$900,000 of this fund balance is Building Fund money..
<br />Chairman Whitted stated that there were three things to keep in mind.
<br />(1) the fund balance of District Health, (2) the total fund balance of the
<br />County after the District Health audit, and (3) the possibility of some
<br />funds from the town of Mebane, and the necessity to negotiate some type of
<br />settlement.
<br />The Board agreed to go through the budget and to list the large
<br />expenditures. The first area to be discussed was. schools.
<br />Mr. whitted stated that the current expense request from Chapel Hill
<br />was $1,948,777 and from the County $1,858,922. The proposed allocation
<br />for Chapel Hill for 1977-78 is $1,738,188 and for the County $1,507,002.
<br />In Capital Outlay, the Chapel Hill system requested $425,960 and the
<br />County requested $410,082. The proposed allocation for Chapel Hill and
<br />the County is $250,000. Discussion ensued.
<br />Dan Lunsfard from the County School system stated that the submitted
<br />budget was a maintenance budget not counting the eight teachers which were
<br />cut by the State or the 4~ teachers asked for new and expanded programs.
<br />This totals to $1,591,797 which is not really a maintenance budget because
<br />it does not cover the loss of the eight teachers. He added that the eight
<br />teachers needed .to be covered and that $100,000, including fringe benefits
<br />would cover these eight teachers.
<br />Mr. Lunsford stated that since the School Board had learned what the
<br />proposed budget for the County School System was, he had again gone through
<br />his budget and that there is no way that the County Schools can operate
<br />at the present operating level with $1,507,002.
<br />Chairman whitted reminded those present that last year the Board of
<br />Commissioners requested that the School Boards attempt to develop a 3 to
<br />5 year budget so that money which was being spent for capital outlay for
<br />the schools could be diverted fmr County use so that the County's capital
<br />improvement program could get underway. In order to do that, it is
<br />necessary to put aside a substantial sum this year to go alone with the
<br />$9,00,000 that is anticipated June 30th to continue with the jail and
<br />Grady Brown projects.
<br />Dr. Hanes stated that the understanding of the Chapel Hill Carrboro
<br />School Board, concerning the current capital outlay from the time that the
<br />bonds were developed, was a continuation of the basic maintenance capital
<br />outlay. He stated that the average for current capital outlay for the last
<br />seven years for his system was about $300,000. He stated that the people
<br />of Ghapel Hill were expecting this capital outlay figure to be somewhere
<br />near what had been maintained over the years.
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