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b tS t: Ms. Sockwell said that. both school systems have recurring maintenance needs which she thought would be appropriate for discussion; she said those needs are expensive and if the County could provide a working figure which the schools could depend on as being the ,minimum available it would be most helpful. Ms. Sockwell also asked how many buildings the County had to maintain each year. Commissioner Willhoit said he felt it inappropriate to promise an amount to the schools each year; he said to do so would "presume knowledge of the ta)- rate" which would be set'and also of State policy regarding salary schedules for its employees. Commissioner Willhoit continued saying, he-felt it more appropriate at this point to list needs and for next year to put an emphasis on catch up maintenance. He said he felt, that new construction would be dependent on the local $..10 additional sales tax, if approved, or the $600 million bond issue. Mr. Caldwell said that if all the needs for each of three entities were known perhaps some of the others' needs could be postponed for those most pressing needs. Chairman Whitted said it would be a good idea to identify those needs/ projects which could be done out of current revenues and to come up with a strategy to address those projects. Dr. Mayer .listed priorities for the ChAipel Hill-Carrboro Schools: roofing, furniture, floors, energy conservation at the high school, multipurpose space in two schools, computers for the classrooms, system-wide erosion control, additional pods. Ms. Sockwell said the current needs amounted to $797,000 for the big items, not including small items (such as -sewing machines and microscopes); and a total of $7;169,000 for long range needs. Dr. Simmons said the needs for the' Orange County Schools was the same as in January of 1981 (see minutes of January 29, 1981, for specific projects). Briefly, those needs area replacement school for Stanback, cafeteria expansion at the high school, modifications for handicapped accessibility, media center at the high school, vocational facility, energy retrofit, roofs, storage at the main facility, site improvements. He summarized the needs of his system at about $12 million. Chairman Whitted said those needs can't be funded from current revenue sources by the County. Mr. Caldwell said the Federal government was dumping icosts on the State government which in turn was dumping costs onto local govern- ments and local governments did not have the funds to pick those costs up. He further said he thought the $600 million bond issue was dead on the State level