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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS . ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: April 27, 2010 Action Agenda Item No. 1 SUBJECT: Presentation of Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools Boards of Education Approved FY 2010-11 Operating and Capital Budgets DEPARTMENT: County Manager and Financial PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No Services ATTACHMENT(S): 1. CHCCS Board of Education 2010-11 Budget Request 2. CHCCS Elementary #11 Discussion 3. OCS Board of Education 2010-11 Budget Request 4. Allocation of Projected Revenue for FY 2010-11 INFORMATION CONTACT: Name, Phone Number Frank Clifton, (919) 245-2300 Neil Pedersen, (919) 967-8211 Patrick Rhodes, (919) 732-8126 • PURPOSE:: To receive the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools Boards of Education approved FY 2010-11 operating and capital budgets. BACKGROUND: The Board of County Commissioners decided the funding target for schools in previous years would be 48.1 % of County General Fund revenues. The target is exclusive of the County's share of Durham Technical Community College funding and is consistent with the school funding target endorsed by Commissioners in May 2000. The following school related components are included in calculation of the target percentage: Local Current Expense -supplements State and Federal funds received by each district for the day-to- day operation of schools. Examples of expenses paid from these funds include salaries and benefits for locally paid teachers and utilities. Counties having more than one school administrative unit, as is the case in Orange County, are required to provide equal per pupil appropriations to each system. The funding level, however, is discretionary and varies from county to county. Recurring Capital -pays for facility improvements, equipment, furnishings, and vehicle and bus purchases. State statutes mandate: counties to fund recurring capital, however the amount of money counties allocate to this function is discretionary and varies from county to county. Equal per pupil allocations required by law for current expense appropriations are not applicable to this category of local • school funding.