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•Expanded Counselor in Training (CIT) program to attract young teens with few other summer camp options for kids in this age category. Program full for summer 2010. After School •Average 92 Students per week. Up from 80 last year. Further growth expected next year. Additional high quality staff hired. Pre-School •To open Fall 2010. Currently enrolling. Capital Furnishinqs • $35K requested primarily to support expanding Kidsplex program. •Cubbies request will be reduced by $5K as RFP has donated half of required new KidsPlex Cubbies. Equipment •Major expenditures are for Pool upgrades. Bacterial contamination is one of the biggest concerns in the Aquatics industry and state of the art UV systems highly diminish this potential threat. • Pool starter boxes are needed to continue hosting meets and for safety. Commissioner Pelissier asked how many more years of debt there is on the Sportsplex and Financial Services Director Clarence Grier said that is approximately eight years out. Commissioner Jacobs asked about the relationship between the Senior Center and the Sportsplex now that they are fully operational. John Stock said that there is very large participation with seniors in the Sportsplex. Commissioner Jacobs thanked John Stock for working with the Sportsplex Advisory Committee. He said that the relationship has benefited the Sportsplex. 2. Outside Aqency Allocations: Process Overview and County Manaqer Recommendations, FY 10-11 Frank Clifton said that this is the most difficult portion of the budget process. He said that he had to cut every other County function, so he also had to cut outside agencies. He said that he focused on the safety net organizations and their relationships with County government. He also looked at the size of the agency's budget and the impact that the County dollars had on that agency. Lastly, he looked to see if there were alternative forms of funding for these agencies and he took that into consideration. He said that all agencies were reduced some, if not eliminated. Assistant County Manager Gwen Harvey said that they did a distributive system of the funding this year, and they incorporated volunteer boards that were working with certain departments in these agencies' areas. She said that it is not a one size fits all process, but it was taken on a case-by-case basis. She gave some history about this process. In 2008, the Board of County Commissioners approved an official scorecard, as well as a narrative that the raw score was not the determining factor as to how any particular dollar amount would unfold, but it was a matter of guidance for information. Attachment 2 is a matrix, which shows how the workload was distributed. Attachment 4 was the revenue analysis, which shows how the County funds factor into the overall budgets. She said that the bottom line is that there is an overall decrease in the amount of funding being proposed for allocation in the upcoming fiscal