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_, ; l~F 6 r. ~ ~~ ~:~ was providing equal education to children county-wide where one school district had a special supplementary tax. She noted that one system always knows beforehand that it will operate with less money. than the other system, therefore, the question is what is basic education? She said the Board of Commissioners wants to be certain that every child in Orange County, regardless of which school district that child lives in, receives a basic education. Mr. Haithcock asked what the Chapel Hill-Carrboro District spent the supplemental money on? Ms. Sockwell, Ms. Insko, and Ms. Freeman responded: smaller classes, increased salaries for teachers, increased maintenance staff, more teachers, the Exceptiona.l~:.Chi'ld Program and improvement of F'- ~. existing programs.. The feeling from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education was if the citizens warited,~the additional programs and were willing to pay the tax. then they should be permitted to have the extra tax. The Orange County Board of Education acknowledged this right of the other school district but felt they were unable to compete far the best teachers and in other programs. 'The feeling from Orange County was that a similar supplemental tax would not be supported by the citizens. Ms. Insko suggested that what one system considered supplemental might. 6e considered basic by the other system. Commissioner Whitted suggested that might be called "purse control education." Agenda Item 5: B_ud9et Information and Budget Format A budget format from the Mecklenburg-Charlotte schools was presented to the Commissioners and the Boards of Education. A consensus was that it was too late in the budget process to switch to anew system but both Boards seemed to like the concepts within the budget format, i.e. three year's data for comparison, constant money, a staffing column and enrollment comparison. They .felt it would enhance the present format. The Commissioners thought it would mike it easier for them to understand and relate specific line items requested by the schools. The Chapel Hill- Carrboro Board of Education said if the .Commissioners would let them know what they wanted the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education would sub- mit the requested documents.