S Ord-1998-019 Finance - 1998-99 Budget, Capital and Grant Project Ordinances 06-22-1998-9a

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I 1 2 A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Halkiotis to continue the 3 outstanding rating of the current pay plan. VOTE: AYES, 3; NOS, 2 (Commissioner Crowther and Commissioner Carey) 6 A motion was made by Commissioner Crowther, seconded by Commissioner Halkiotis to adopt the County 7 fee schedule. 8 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 9 10 A motion was made by Chair Brown, seconded by Commissioner Halkiotis to investigate ways to continue 11 the function of the temporary public health educator and bring back a recommendation. 12 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 13 14 b. Professional services contract between Orange County Tax Department and Stadermann 15 Consulting Services d/b/a SCS Direct Mail Marketing 16 The Board considered an agreement with Stadermann Consulting Services for production and mailing of tax 17 bills and/or notices. 18 Tax Collector Ginger Rolfe said that changes have been made to the agreement to assure confidentiality of 19 the data base as requested by the County Commissioners. 20 Commissioner Gordon made reference to pages 10 and 11 and Geoffrey Gledhill confirmed that Stadermann 21 will only use Orange County's information for Orange County purposes and not for any other purpose. He emphasized 22 that they agreed not to use it for any other purposes. If we find out they are going to use it for some other purpose and 23 we have to go to court, the agreement says that they pay for litigation if this goes to court because of misuse of 24 confidential information. 25 A motion was made by Commissioner Halkiotis, seconded by Commissioner Carey to approve and 26 authorize the Chair to sign this agreement. 27 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 28 The Board discussed the information they want to include in the same envelope as the tax bill. These �. included septic tank information, EMS services and list of achievements accomplished by County departments. 31 32 33 C. HOME program development agreement—Scarlett Drive 34 The Board considered approval of a development agreement with Orange County Community Housing 35 Corporation for$50,000 in HOME funding to assist with new residential construction on Scarlett Drive, Chapel Hill. 36 Housing and Community Development Director Tara Fikes reported that fourteen town homes would be 37 build, each approximately 1,000 sq. feet. They think it will take nine months to get through the planning process and 38 begin construction in June, 1999. 39 A motion was made by Commissioner Halkiotis, seconded by Commissioner Carey to approve and 40 authorize the Chair to sign the Development Agreement with Orange Community Housing Corporation contingent upon 41 the County Attorney's review and approval. 42 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 43 44 45 d. Proposal to form a new Environment and Resource Conservation Department 46 The Board considered establishing a new Environment and Resource Conservation Department. 47 Commissioner Gordon said that what we are talking about now is having this as a separate department 48 instead of a separate division of the Planning Department. For several years there has been a Commissioners'goal 49 concerning the establishment of resource conservation as a separate function in County government and June 1998 was 50 the date we had scheduled to make a decision on this function. She recommends that this department be established 51 and she read the steps for implementation as included in the agenda. 52 Commissioner Crowther said that he does not want this to be a separate department. He supports bringing 5-1 resource conservation to a higher level. However, he believes we already have the Soil and Water Conservation Department. and that some of the things we would like to do are being done at the state and federal level. He also 5 wants to see what functions our Economic Development Department will be doing. 56 Commissioner Carey said that he has some similar concerns. He would like to see a comprehensive report 57 before they take any further action on creating a new department. He feels that the cost of County Government will 58 increase if we add another department. He would like to see it in an existing department until we see how it progresses. 59 He feels that the Soil and Water Conservation Department does a great job. i