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MINUTES ~l <br />MAY 25, 1982 <br />.The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in a special session <br />on Tuesday, May 25, 1982, at 7:30 P.M. in the Commissioners' Room, Orange <br />County Courthouse, Hillsborough; North Carolina. <br />Commissioners present: Chairman Richard E. Whitted, and Commissioners <br />Norm Gustaveson, Shirley E. Marshall, Norman Walker and Don Willhoit (who <br />arrived at 7:57 P.M.) <br />The purpose of the meeting was a budget work session with the O-P-C <br />Mental Health Center and Department of Social Services.. <br />Mr. Bill Baxter, Director of O-P-C Mental Health, presented his bud- <br />get to the Board of Commissioners. He said it represented a 17% increase aver <br />last year's budget request due primarily to the Willie M. Program which is <br />100% State funded. Orange Co'unty's share of the increase among the three <br />counties is about 20%. The total budget request is for $3,855,347.00. <br />The Board thanked Mr. Baxter for his presentation. <br />Mr. Tam Ward, Director of the Department of Social Services, presented, <br />with the aid of his staff, that Department's requested budget which is <br />$49,393 more than the County Manager has recommended. Ms. Janice 5chopler, <br />Chair of the. Board of Social Services, in introductory remarks, said the <br />Department was unable to meet mandated services due to funding cutbacks. <br />This failure to provide mandated services is of great concern to the Board <br />of Sacial Services which feels the responsibility is not properly staff's <br />but that Board's and the Board of Commissioners'. She added that the Board <br />of Social Services fully supports the budget as requested by the Department. <br />The total requested budget is $1,091,638; the Manager has recommended <br />$1,041,745.D0. <br />Ms. Deanna Bullard outlined the specific needs and requested levels <br />of funding far Full-time Equivalent Adult Service Staff and Day Care while <br />Mr. George Cole and Ms. Lane Cooke specified needs and levels of service for <br />Child Protective Services. These are the areas of major differences between <br />the Manager's recommended budget and the Department's requested budget. <br />The Board told Mr. Ward it would like to have a breakout of programs <br />with contributions by the Federal, State and County Governments over the pre- <br />