ORD-2008-015 - Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Budget Amendment #8

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3. Planning Department The Planning department has received $17,000 from Crown Castle USA for two Special Use . Class B Permits for cell towers. The department plans to place these funds in an escrow account to pay The Center for Municipal Solutions for telecommunication consulting fees. (See Attachment 1, column #3) 4. Health Department The Health department has received additional State revenue for the following programs: ~- The Health Department has received notification of additional federal Family Planning Title. X funds totaling $12,215. The State's premise for allocating these funds centers on a minimum basis per. county and additional funds based on the number of patients seen in the Family Planning Clinic during the previous year. The department plans to use these funds to offset costs of operating the Family Planning clinics. As required by the grant agreement, the department must spend these funds by May 31, 2008. This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these additional funds. ~- The Health Department has also received $10,060 Medicaid Administrative funds in the form of General Aid-to-County funds. The department plans to use these funds to offset non-permanent personnel related costs to help with new and existing Medicaid programs, including refugee and immigrant health. This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these funds. (See Attachment 1, column #4) 5. Public, Educational and Government (PEG) Channels Orange County has received grant funds totaling $3,950 from the Rural Economic Development Center, Inc, to continue activities related to the County's PEG channels. The County plans to use these a-NC grant funds to help in the purchase of audio visual equipment necessary to film government and community events outside of the Chapel Hill location allowing staff to edit and broadcast the programs on Time Warner channel 265, the public access channel. This equipment represents aone-time investment that can be used to make thousands of hours of video over many years. (See Attachment 1, column # 5) FINANCIAL IMPACT: Financial impacts are included in the background information above. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board of County Commissioners approve the budget amendments for fiscal year 2007-08.