ORD-2005-122 - Budget Amendment #1

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z Miscellaneous (Technical Amendment) 2. A technical amendment is needed to correctly budget two entries in their appropriate functions.. At the time of establishing the Changes to the Manager's Recommended Budget for Board of Commissioner approval, the decrease of $10,000 in the transfer to Affordable Housing Trust Fund should have been reduced from the Transfers function instead of from the Human Services function, and the increase of $4,000 to the Burwell School should have been added to the Cultural and Recreation Non-Departmental function instead of the Human Services Non-Departmental function. This technical amendment provides for the appropriate budgeting in these functions for FY 2005-06. (See Attachment 1, column #2) Department on Aging 3. The Department on Aging has received notification from the N. C. Department of Insurance of receipt of $1,000 to be used to promote/expand the Senior Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) within the eldercare division. This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these funds for the above purpose. (See Attachment 1, column #3) 4. The Department on Aging has also received funds totaling $1,093 from the Triangle J Council of Government for Orange County's share of the Duke Energy program to purchase fans for low-income elderly Orange County residents. Duke Energy donates funds annually to this program. This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these funds. (See Attachment 1, column #4) Health Department 5. At its August 16, 2005 meeting, the Board of County Commissioners approved the transfer of $21,500 from the Social Safety Net/Critical Needs Reserve to the Health Department's Environmental Health division to address water sampling costs of an estimated 100 households in the Mill Creek Road Area located in the Cedar Grove Township. This budget amendment provides for the transfer of these funds to the Environment Health division of the Health Department for this purpose. With this appropriation of $21,500, $418,500 remains budgeted in the Social Safety Net/Critical Needs Reserve for FY 2005-06. (See Attachment 1, column #5) Human Services Non-Departmental 6. As part of the Adopted FY 2005-06 Budget, the Board of County Commissioners approved an appropriation of $18,000 for Orange County's contribution to the Partnership to End Homelessness Initiative. Membership in the Initiative includes Orange County, the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough, the Triangle United Way, Orange Congregations in Mission, the Inter-Faith Council, OPC Area Program, the Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce, and UNC. These funds will be used to provide administrative support services to the Partnership to End Homelessness in order to create a written 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness in Orange County. Budget requests were made to the county and municipalities according to the existing HOME Program funding formula. The total funding received equals $50,000 with committed monetary contributions from the Town of Chapel Hill ($18,450}, Town of Carrboro ($6,300),