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it <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May 6, 1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. �� e <br />SUBJECT: Budget Amendment #9 <br />DEPARTMENT: Budget Office PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT: (Y/N) <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) Proposed Budget Amendment <br />2) Information Technology Capital Project <br />Ordinance <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Donna Dean, Budget Director <br />extension 2151 <br />3) Commissioners Contingency Status Report TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough <br />732 -8181 - <br />Chapel Hill <br />968 -4501 <br />Durham <br />688 -7331 <br />Mebane <br />227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider proposed budget ordinance amendments and capital project ordinance. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Contributions to Outside Agencies <br />1) At its April 21, 1998 meeting, the Board of County Commissioners approved a funding request <br />from Mr. Charles Snipes, representative of the Orange Soil and Water Conservation District Board. <br />This $2,000 request is to support the annual Farm Family of the Year recognition. The attached <br />budget amendment on page 3 of this abstract appropriates Commissioners' Contingency funds for <br />this purpose. <br />2) The Board of County Commissioners approved a funding request from the Orange Community <br />Housing Corporation on April 21, 1998. The funds, totaling $19,000, allow the Corporation to <br />cover a budget shortfall related to attorney fees incurred with the Magnolia Place development. <br />The attached budget amendment on page 3 of this abstract appropriates Commissioners' <br />Contingency funds for this purpose. <br />3) Information Technology Capital Project <br />At the April 21, 1998 Board meeting, the County Commissioners approved funding for the next <br />phase of work to be undertaken in the 1997 -98 County's Technology Plan. This phase, totaling <br />$349,435, includes funds to address three of the five Information Technology Plan initiatives <br />including County Network, Desktop Systems, and Citizen and Board Access. The attached <br />Information Technology Capital Project Ordinance on page 4 of this agenda <br />abstract appropriates these funds. The combined cost of the 85 new PCs approved by the <br />Board to complete the first phase of the County's PC replacement policy will exceed the <br />Purchasing Director's threshold of $20,000 for approving purchase orders. The Board's action <br />