ORD-2004-013- Budget Amendment #11

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Department on Aging 2. During fiscal year 2002 -03, the Department on Aging began its "Friend -to- Friend" program. This program, funded in part last fiscal year with an allocation from the County's Human Services Social Safety Net, serves elderly clients by making daily calls to ensure that clients are safe. During budget work sessions last spring, the Department on Aging spoke to the need for its "Friend -to- Friend" program to continue and indicated that there might be a need to request funds from the County's Social Safety Net this fiscal year in order to fund the program for a full year. To continue the program for the remainder of this fiscal year, this budget amendment provides for a transfer of $8,414 from the Human Services Social Safety Net. (See Attachment 1, column #2) 3. For a number of years, the Department on Aging has benefited from a position funded totally through the federal National Caucus and Center for Black Aged Senior Employment Program. The position, located at the Northside Senior Center, became vacant and the department was notified that, due to a federal hiring freeze, the position would not be filled. The position serves the County by making daily telephone reassurance calls to 35 frail and at -risk seniors who either live alone or are at home alone all day. This budget amendment provides for a transfer of $2,600 from the Human Services Social Safety Net to continue this program through June 30, 2004. (See Attachment 1, column #3) Outside Agencies 4. On January 26, 2004, the Board of County Commissioners approved a request of $10,000 for Duke Community Hospice to purchase an emergency generator that would serve as an emergency, electrical back up at their Hillsborough facility. Of the $170,000 needed to purchase and install the generator, the agency has secured $144,700 in corporate and' community funding. At the time that the Board approved the funding, it also requested that staff prepare an agreement between the County and the agency that this appropriation is based upon Hospice, in the event of an area -wide emergency, after first responding to the needs of their terminally ill patients and their families in the community, responding on a needs basis to other Orange County citizens, especially frail or elderly clients identified by the County through its human services departments. Attachment 2 of this abstract is a signed copy of the agreement. This budget amendment provides for the transfer of $10,000 from the Social Safety Net to Duke Community Hospice to assist in the purchase of an emergency generator. (See Attachment 1, column #4) 5. On April 13, 2004, the Board of County Commissioners approved a $12,000 funding request from Orange- Chatham Alternative Sentencing (OCAS) for the continuation of pre -trial release services. The pre -trial release program is a component of the North Carolina Department of Correction, Criminal Justice Partnership Program (CJPP). Orange County has contracted with OCAS since 1994 for the pre -trial release program. This program assists the 15B judicial district by identifying and monitoring eligible clients from the Orange and Chatham County jails (with an approximate 75/25 split respectively) in an effort to reduce jail overcrowding. The program has encountered state funding reductions since FY 2000 -01, and is again requesting assistance from the County to ensure the continuation of pre -trial release services through June 2004. This budget amendment would transfer $12,000 from the Human Services Social Safety Net to OCAS for the above state purposes. (See Attachment 1, column #5)