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Social Services Director Nancy Coston said that this is a provisional grant, which means that the information has to be worked out with the State and the contract must be signed by September 301h. This item will be discussed fully at the October 61h meeting. The Board needs to approve this for the Chair to sign the contract from the State to be returned on September 30th to the State. The funds are for three years and the two groups administering the funds will be Orange County and Housing for New Hope. She said that this was a collaborative effort. Commissioner Nelson thanked the staff and Chair for making sure the Board was polled about adding this item. A motion was made by Commissioner Nelson, seconded by Commissioner Hemminger to accept the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program award of$1 million from the State of North Carolina; and approve the execution of the associated State Contract and a Sub-recipient contract with Housing for New Hope by the Chair of the Board of commissioners upon contract review and approval by the County Attorney's Office. VOTE: UNANIMOUS OPENING COMMENTS: Introductions were made. Chair Foushee said that Steve Halkiotis would not be able to attend tonight's meeting because he is still recuperating from surgery. 1. Chapel HiII-Carrboro City Schools - Update of 2009-10 Budget Superintendent Neil Pedersen said that the first assumption was that CHCCS would not receive any more money from the County from last year, and the first set of reductions ($718,280 in Attachment 1-a) were to be made for no increase in County appropriations. The second set of reductions was made once the appropriation was received. This totals $1.9 million worth of reductions. The first set of reductions did not include personnel, and the second set of cuts involved the Central Office. Attachment 1-b includes the State reductions. The State made reductions of$3 million in non-instructional support. The State reduced this line item (custodians, clerical, and substitutes) and then gave stabilization funds for the same amount. The second biggest reduction is discretionary funds. There was a potential reduction in teacher assistants, but in the final budget, the position reductions did not appear for teachers and teacher assistants. He distributed a handout on class sizes. On the elementary level, grades K-3 are doing well and not exceeding 21 students. In 41h and 51h grades, the levels are the same as last year. In the middle school level, the allocation of teachers has changed and the numbers are looking good for class sizes. In the high school level, the numbers are up somewhat, and they did reduce some core offerings. Neil Pedersen said that no teachers were laid off or non-renewed for strictly budgetary reasons. There were 60 teachers that received non-renewal notices because of other opportunities. The school system hired approximately 90 new teachers for the school year. He made reference to the 20th day membership figures and said that right now CHCCS is 123 students below the State's projection. He made reference to the letter that was sent to Chair Foushee. There is an update on Elementary School #11. He said that there was a successful public hearing in