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- MINUTES -- ORANGE COUNTY BOARD DF CDMMISSIONERS BUDGET WORK SESSION JUNE 15, 1989 - The Orange County Board of Commissioners met on June 15, 1989 at 6:30 p.m. in the. ' Agricultural Extension Building, Hillsborough, N.C., for the purpose of holding a budget work session. BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairman Moses Carey, Jr., and Commissioners Shirley E. Marshall, Stephen Halkiotis, John Hartwell and Don Willhoit. STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John Link, Assistant County Managers Albert Kittrell and Ellen Liston, Glerk to the Board Beverly Blythe, Budget Analyst Donna Wagner, MPA Analyst Beth McIver, Personnel Director Addie Turner, Finance Director Ken Chaviaus, Purchasing Director Pam Jones, EMS Director Nick Waters, Social Services Administrative Officer Ray Poole. Chairman Garey called the meeting to order. The first order of business was the reallocation and budget revisions of funds from the NG Division of Health Service. A motion was made by Commissioner Marshall, seconded by Gommissioner Halkiotis, to approve the allocation of additional funds from the NC Division of Health Services to the Orange County Health Services. _. VOTE: UNANIMOUS The Non-Departmental Agencies budget requests were considered. .-_. MS. NANCY PARKS, of Child Care Networks, introduced the Co-Director Amy Rabb. She referred to a chart which showed the current operating budget and next years operating budget. She indicated that for the last four years they have operated without substantial increases in their funding while at the same time. they have greatly increased the services they have provided. They accomplished this thru the use of citizen volunteers. She indicated that they became sponsors of the child care food program in family day care homes on October 1, 1988. The program is self-supporting. More than 1/2 of their budget will be in the child care food program which is dependent upon successful recruitment of family day care homes into this program. The anticipated funds to serve the support and referral portion of their program are in the range of $130,000. She indicated that with the current budget recommendation they will be $15,000 short which means they will have to cut back an staff time. She requested that the Commissioners consider allocating the entire amount requested. She also mentioned a special project they recently completed which addressed the issue of parenting education and support. The project will not be updated unless they find a volunteer who is willing to take on that responsibility. Commissioner Willhoit requested information concerning the contributions from the University and the Hospital. Ms. Parks indicated that those contribution have increase from $10,000 each to $19,000 each this last year. Of those funds $4,000 each was to start the child care food program. The contracts with the Hospital and the University for this year will be to provide enhanced referrals. An "enhanced referrals" will provide more service to the