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LJ LJ~ .. •!_n a request for a planned maintenance program. We were put off one year. The l~guage comes out again tonight. It could be one more year, do part of it now and maybe one more~year.do another part. That's behind system wide. But as a Board we have a responsibility to spend the public funds in the best way we see. We have no choice under North Carolina law but to come to you for the request for money. And'; it's, as we discussed among ourselves last night, that's an unusual situation that North Carolina finds itself in but nevertheless, that's the system we operate under. And we do feel strongly that it's the best use of public funds to do more than a band-aid approach. Commissioner Wi7lhoit'responded: Of course last year at this time we had questions of consideration of when the State-wide school bond referendum might be held and we're still to that point. Because the needs that have been identified apparently are going to require that kind of funding. Mr. Cfland said "we were at that point four or five years ago." Commissioner Willhoit said that Orange County had held a bond referendum within the past four or five years. There was a consensus among Board members to reduce the contingency ,fund. to last year's level; suspend merits and fringes for one year;. reduce the amount allocated to economic development to $25,000; and allow $10,000 increase for legal fees for this year. The Board discussed other options for the budget in~the '; areas of capital (schools'and County's), CBA funding for Shaeffer House, Protective Services, per pupil expenditure, appropriation from County fund balance, and funding schools at a level $50,000 below to permit their appropriating from their fund balance. There was a consensus among Board members to fund protective services at 2.ti additional positions, rather than the Manager's recommended 1.6 additionalpmsit'ions or the Board of Social Services' recommended 3.6 positions. The Board said its intent was for the Board of Social Services to decide how to allocate the additional employees, i.e,. for Child Protective Services or Adult Protective Services; the Commissioners are co cerned about both areas. The Commissioners did request that the Board of Social Servic~s monitor the situation closely and resort to the Board of Commissioners in about four months. There was a consensus among Board members to follow the recommendation received from the Youth Services Task Force for funding. /See the Minutes of ,Tune 15, 1982, for that recorrnnendatian.~ Board members discussed various proposals far the budget; the Manager recom- mended strongly against the County's going "beyond this $354,000 appropriated fund balance."