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were being funded less recently in-proportion to previous years. Ms. Insko agreed with that statement but added that the County had had population growth and bond funds coming in while it was completing some of its own capital • projects; that is no longer the case: Ms. Insko asked, rather, "at what point do • we return" to the previous funding level? • Commissioner Whitted said that some of the County's projects, the jail for example, • had taken considerably longer to complete than anticipated while the schools' projected five year capital projects had taken only two years to finish. The County is- still completing projects identified several years earlier. Commissioner Whitted cited three wags to get increased funds: 1) increase property tax; 2) ask for�;a :bond issue; , 3). support Senator Royall 's bill. He reminded the Boards that the voters had soundly defeated the 1979 bond issue. . Ms. Insko said the Boards of Education needed to pressure the State to increase ., its current expense funding so that counties could increase capital funding. Ms. Carolyn , Freeman, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools Finance Officer, said there were items in their . capital projects that didn't appear ten years ago; she cited examples such as roof . replacement (the schools were new ten years ago) and site development. Commissioner Whitted said the schools were experiencing what the County had i . experienced prior to 1976; that is, delaying capital projects in order to fund other ,needs. The County did not have an on-going capital projects fund prior to 1976. ,He continued saying that some assumptions and known quantities for next year were: . 1) assume no tax increase; 2) debt service $900,000. Commissioner Whitted agreed v ,with Mr. Caldwell 's suggestion of a small committee to work up school 's funding for this next fiscal year. Responding to Mr. Faribault's concern regarding long term ,capital funding, Mr. Whitted said the suggested committee could work on that issue also; new school const =tion, he said, would necessitate a bond issue. Mr. Caldwell said that knowing a realistic amount that the schools could expect from the L. County would facilitate the Rom-ls w wkinv ,m R rpasnn-Lh1p T,,,,Mt_ ?. Mr. Kennedy said the Orange County Board of Education was going to continue to 3- identify needs and ask for funding of those needs. The needs of the Orange County ,schools are greater, he said. Mr. Haithcock said due to growth expanded facilities 5-would be needed. 61 Mr. Caldwell moved, seconded by Ms. Thornton, that the administrative heads of 7,both Boards of Education, with their Finance Officers and the County Manager with his 8, 9. ,0.