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.• <br />J f. _Z <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />JUNE 7, 1978 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in special <br />session on Wednesday, June 7, 1978, at 7:30 p.m. in the Commissioners' <br />Room of the Court House in Hillsborough. The purpose of the meeting <br />was to review the proposed 1978--1979 Orange County Budget. <br />Members of the Board present were Chairman Richard Whitted, <br />Commissioners Jan Pinney, Norman Gustaveson, Norman Walker and <br />Donald Willhoit. <br />Others present were S. M. Gattis, County Manager; Neal Evans, <br />Finance Director; Joe Bradshaw, Administrative Assistant; Wayne <br />Weston, Recreatien Director; members of the Orange County Recreation <br />Advisory Council and Agatha Johnson, Clerk to the Board. <br />• Chairman Whitted brought to the Board's attention the CETA <br />program. He stated that the Durham City Council had failed to <br />reconsider the CETA Program, so that the program will be dissolved <br />effective September 30, 1978. Mr. Whitted stated that the fioard <br />needed to determine which option to go with the program. A memo- <br />: randum was presented by Joe Bradshaw which listed three such <br />options: (1) Contract with Triangle J for staff, planning <br />services and program operation. The Chairman pointed out that <br />Triangle J presently performs no CETA planning and/or operating <br />services because all member governments have previously been <br />connected with consortiums. (2) Seek agreement with "remains <br />of Consortium" Durham County or seek another locally acceptable <br />consortium arrangement, possibly with Alamance County. (3) <br />Stand alone and conduct local programs through balance of State <br />program. <br />The memorandum stated that State Personnel suggested that <br />' Orange County pursue two courses of action; (1) Request Durham <br />release some staff to work on Orange County's plan exclusively and <br />(2) Ask State Office of Community Employment for technical <br />assistance and funding to cover three ar four months planning woxk <br />prior to September 30, 1978. <br />The County Manager stated that some bonuses are available <br />by being in a Consortium. <br />Mr. Whitted asked the Finance Director to review the revenues <br />portion of the budget. <br />Mr. Evans distributed the Board charts relative to the.revenues <br />and expenditures in the proposed budget. He stated that ~49~ of <br />revenue comes from property tax and 9~ comes from sales tax in the <br />County. The ether large revenues received are 13~ for Social Services <br />Revenues, which is tied directly to Social Services expenditures, <br />and the Fund Balance generates 19~ which goes into the building <br />account. The transfer of revenues sharing a.s 2.5~ and is stable. <br />The transfer _ utility fund is l~ and is expected to pick up next <br />year. Charges for services, the County received 1~ of revenues; <br />however, the Board has the potential to change this if desired. The <br />ABC System is very much the same with 3~ or from $390,000 to <br />$400,000. The intangibles tax of 2~ is actually decreasing in <br />which is actually collected this year. This depends upon what the <br />stock market reads from day to day. The Revenues show an increase <br />over the proposed budget, but a decrease over the estimated <br />amount. Nlr. Evans stated that the Intergovernmental Revenues <br />are declining percentagewise, while the property tax revenues <br />are increasing. He stated that over the last seven years, there <br />were two big packages of revenues which came into the County budget <br />which were not in it before. One was sales tax and the other was <br />revenue sharing. These two items picked up a part of growth in <br />County government. Now they are a part of the budget, and revenue <br />sharing has actually decreased over the last three years. <br />