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� <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> c. County Capital Projects Budqet Ordinance Amendments — Budqet Amendment <br /> #6 —A <br /> The Board considered approving Budget Amendment#6-A for$13,097, 651 for the <br /> County Capital Projects Fund. The proposed correct project budgets for the Lands Legacy <br /> (Attachment 1), Conservation Easements (Attachment 2), and Efland Sewer Development <br /> (Attachment 3) are shown in the background section of the agenda materials. <br /> Michael Talbert presented this item. He referred to the rose-colored handout which <br /> pertains to this item. The last two pages the County Commissioners have not seen before. <br /> Page 9 gives additional information describing how the proposed corrected budget figure of <br /> $6, 010, 452 was derived for the Lands Legacy Project Budget. Page 10 gives a description of <br /> the Lands Legacy Project Ordinance Duplicate Projects. The information on pages 9 and 10 is <br /> attached and hereby made a part of these minutes. This is a very large budget amendment of <br /> $13,097,651. He said that there is no financial impact of this amendment. This is a correction <br /> of prior years' double budgeting of three basic projects — Lands Legacy, Conservation <br /> Easements, and Efland Sewer extension and development. There is background on each of <br /> these three items in the abstract. <br /> Information given below contains staff responses to Commissioner Gordon and <br /> Commissioner McKee's questions regarding this item. <br /> Questions from Commissioner Gordon: <br /> All, <br /> Here are my initial comments and questions for Item 7-c (County Capital Projects - Budget <br /> Amendment#6-A) with special attention to the Lands Legacy section of this item. My intent is <br /> to make sure that we all agree on the basic information that is the foundation on which the <br /> dollar amounts in this agenda item are based. After that is done, I may or may not need more <br /> information. <br /> A. General obligation bonds <br /> My recollection concerning the 2001 "Parks and Open Space Bond" and the budget for the <br /> "Lands Legacy Program" is different from some of the information shown in this agenda item. <br /> For example, on page 3 of the agenda abstract it is stated that the <br /> 2001 bond referendum included $17,000,000 for Parks and Open Space. I have attached the <br /> bond brochure which shows that the amount for Parks, Recreation and Open Space was <br /> $20,000,000, not $17,000,000. Of that amount there was $13,000,000 for specific projects <br /> and $7,000,000 for"Land Acquisition for Future Parks and Nature Preserves (Lands Legacy <br /> Program)." See page 4 of the attachment. <br /> My recollection of the 1997 bond referendum is that it included $3 million for land acquisition <br /> (Lands Legacy) and $3 million for parks projects. <br />