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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 21, 1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 8-Q <br />SUBJECT: Budget Amendment #8 <br />DEPARTMENT: Budget Office PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT: (Y/N) <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) Proposed Budget Amendment <br />2) Water Quality Improvements Grant Project <br />Ordinance <br />3) Intensive Home Visiting Grant Project <br />Ordinance <br />4) Senior Net Grant Project Ordinance <br />5) Efland Cheeks Community School Park <br />Capital Project Ordinance <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Donna Dean, Budget Director <br />extension 2151 <br />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, grant project ordinances and <br />capital project ordinance. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Soil and Water Conservation District <br />1) At its April 7, 1998 meeting, the Board of County Commissioners approved a joint <br />agreement with the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources and <br />the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service. Under the joint agreement, these agencies <br />will fully fund a position to provide technical assistance to farmers and landowners and <br />using best nutrient management practices, reduce the nitrogen delivered to the Neuse River. <br />The reduction goal is 30 percent within a five -year period from 1998 until 2003. The <br />attached Water Quality Improvements Grant Project Ordinance on page 4 of this abstract <br />provides funding for the first year of this program and authorizes the associated full time <br />equivalent position through September 30, 1998. <br />Health Department <br />2) The Board of County Commissioners accepted a grant from the N.C. Division of Women <br />and Children's Health for an Intensive Home Visiting grant. The grant provides funds to <br />decrease child abuse and neglect; improve parent -child interaction; ensure adequate use of <br />preventive family support services; improve children's health and development; and <br />improve the service delivery system in Orange County by decreasing fragmentation and <br />