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3 <br />4. The Department on Aging has also received additional United Way funds totaling $5,078 <br />from the Friends of the Robert and Pearl Seymour Center. The department plans to use <br />these funds to continue leasing blood pressure monitors located at each of the County's <br />senior centers as well as to cover the cost of a fitness studio attendant eight hours per week <br />at the Seymour Center for the remainder of the current fiscal year. The department <br />anticipates that the need for fitness studio attendants will be an ongoing need in future years' <br />budgets with costs offset by these senior fitness studio related fees. This budget <br />amendment provides for the receipt of unbudgeted County revenues and allows for <br />contracting with a fitness studio attendant beginning in fiscal year 2007 -08 as outlined in the <br />above narrative. (See Attachment 3, Senior Citizen Health Promotion Program Grant Project <br />Ordinance) <br />5. At its September 19, 2007 meeting, the Board of County Commissioners approved a new fee <br />structure for the fitness studio at the Robert and Pearl Seymour Center, as well as <br />anticipated revenue of $30,000 that the new fees will generate for the current fiscal year. <br />This revenue and corresponding expenditures were inadvertently budgeted within the <br />department's Community Based Services division within the General Fund. This budget <br />amendment transfers $30,000 from the Aging Department's General Fund revenue to its <br />grant project fund revenue. (See Attachment 3, Senior Citizen Health Promotion Program <br />Grant Project Ordinance) <br />Health Department <br />6. The Health Department initiated a new grant supported program last fiscal year to promote <br />the use of mouth guards by student athletes at middle and high schools in the Orange <br />County school district. Grant funds and donations offset the cost of this program. Currently, <br />a local dentist donates time and equipment to the Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools in <br />support of its student athlete mouth guard program. The Strowd Roses Foundation has <br />contributed $3,500 for this initiative for fiscal year 2007 -08. Anticipated donations totaling <br />$4,000 for student participation, to offset the remaining cost of the program, were included in <br />the County's approved budget for fiscal year 2007 -08. This budget amendment provides for <br />the receipt of the $3,500 from the Strowd Roses Foundation for this program. (See <br />Attachment 1, column # 6) <br />Recreation and Parks Department <br />7. At its August 21, 2007 meeting, the Board of County Commissioners approved the <br />acceptance of a grant award valued at $50,000 from the U.S. Soccer Foundation for the <br />West Ten Soccer Complex project. In accordance with the grant, the County will receive <br />equipment and services from Hunter Irrigation valued at $16,872 plus $33,128 in project <br />revenues (cash funds). The department plans to use these funds to assist in covering other <br />developmental costs, such as site furnishings, associated with this capital project. This <br />budget amendment provides for the receipt of the cash portion of the grant. (See <br />Attachment 4, West Ten Soccer Complex Capital Project Ordinance) <br />8. In light of concerns raised by members of the public and the Board of County <br />Commissioners, on October 9, 2007, Commissioners took action to suspend the County's <br />$250 per day park rental fee. The Board's direction provided for amending the 2007 -08 <br />