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aoo~~~ to the citizens of Orange County. The number of service complaints has in- creased by approximately 2,000 over the previous year. Pstrol has driven a total. of 838,SZ9 mi7.es through June 1. Almost 12,000 papexs have been served. Because of the tremendous increase in paperwork, he requested that a part-time secretary be upgraded to fulltime. Calls into the sheriff~a office average 188 a day. Approximately 51 people are received in the office daily and an average of 133 letters are being mailed a day including jury notices, etc. In the investigative section, 7$~ of the cases have been cleared. Forty-five child sex abuse cases have been investigated. He requested the inclusion of one investigator in the budget to handle the increase in child sex abuse cases. What has placed a burden on the department is when several courts take place at the same time. The operations increase in the budget amounts to $5.959 of which $2,000 is for special operations and $3>389 is fox telephone and postage. The capital equipment request was increased to $90,070 which will provide for furniture and office equipment. The Sheriff also included in his budget a request for upgrading five (5) employees from Deputy I to Deputy IT. The projected revenue from the jail for 55-86 is $250,OOD. xt was a general consensus to add $15,000 to the mark-up list to include the reclassification of five (5) deputies and a part-time secretary. RE4~NUE REPOA~ Gordon Baker summarized the changes in the sources of revenue. A discussion and comments were made on the fund balance of 2.5 million dollars. A further review will be made and a report brougl}t back to the Board on fund balance. The Board discussed revenue sharing and implications of the percent of funding. If it is cut by 25% it would mean a decrease of $125,000. Chair Willhoit noted that if the County included revenue sharing in the budget it could be earmarked for several capital items where a commitment would not be made until the money was received. Chair Willhoit indicated a meeting needs to be held with the two school systems to discuss the sales tax revenues that are intended to fund the larger capital items and suggested Juue 17 at 7:30 p.m. Commissioner Marshall suggested moving the Public Hearing from Tune 18 to June 26 and set June 27 for the adoption of the budget. After further discussion it was decided to meet on June 14 for presen- tations from the following agencies: Department on Aging 1epartment of Social Services OPC N,ental Eealth Recreation and Parks Department Library Health Department , Gommission £or Women June 25 was set for the Public Hearing to be held at Lincoln Genter in Chapel Hill and June 27 was set for the adoption of the budget in Rillsboraugh. ~4DJOiiRN'MEIVT Chair Willhoit adjourned the meeting. The next meeting will be a Joint Planning Meeting held June 11, 1985 at Chapel Hill Righ School at 7:30. Don Willhoit, Chaiz Beverly A. Blythe, Cleric