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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: April 26, 2011 Action Agenda Item No. 1 SUBJECT: Presentation of Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools Boards of Education Approved FY 2011 -12 Operating and Capital Budgets DEPARTMENT: County Manager and Financial PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No Services ATTACHMENT(S): 1. Orange County Schools Board of Education 2011 -12 Budget Request 2. CHCCS Board of Education 2011 -12 Budget Request 3. Request for Funding for Elementary School #11 4. One Quarter Cent Sales Tax, CHCCS Projects 5. Resolution Regarding Uses of Potential Revenues from a One - Quarter Cent County Sales and Use Tax 6. Allocation of Projected Revenue for FY2011 -12 INFORMATION CONTACT: Frank Clifton, (919) 245 -2306 Clarence Grier (919) 245 -2453 Neil Pedersen, (919) 967 -8211 Patrick Rhodes, (919) 732 -8126 PURPOSE:: To receive the Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill Carrboro Boards of Education approved FY 2011 -12 operating and capital budget requests. BACKGROUND: The Board of County Commissioners established a funding target for schools in previous years of 48.1 % of County General Fund revenues. The target is exclusive of the County's share of Durham Technical Community College funding and is consistent with the school funding target endorsed by Commissioners in May 2000. The. following school related components are included in calculation of the target percentage: Local Current Expense - supplements State and Federal funds received by each district for the day -to- day operation of schools. Examples of expenses paid from these funds include salaries and benefits for locally paid teachers and utilities. Counties having more than one school administrative unit, as is the case in Orange County, are required to provide equal per pupil appropriations to each system. The funding level, however, is discretionary and varies from county to county.