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Commissioner Yuhasz said that he would support possibly shifting hours to provide for more Sunday operating hours. Gayle Wilson said that Sunday for Walnut Grove and Eubanks is already included in the Manager's Recommendation. The two days for Bradshaw Quarry totals about $20,000. The adding of Sundays at the three other sites would cost about $73,250. Cutting one day at Bradshaw would not get close to the amount of opening all of them on Sundays. Commissioner Hemminger said that she was talking about flipping one of the days at Bradshaw to Sunday. Gayle Wilson said that this would come out a lot closer. Commissioner McKee said that he is open to moving the other additional day at Bradshaw Quarry to High Rock for Sunday hours. Discussion ensued on which SWCCs would be open on Sundays. Commissioner McKee said that it is more important to have Ferguson open on Sundays, without increasing the number of hours. Frank Clifton said that the staff could move the hours around and bring back a schedule using existing hours that has all of the SWCCs open on Sunday. Commissioner Jacobs said that he hoped the hours were uniform. Also, if hours will be taken from Eubanks and Walnut Grove, and Walnut Grove is getting improvements, then hours should not be taken from Walnut Grove. Commissioner Yuhasz agreed with Commissioner Jacobs and suggested that if they want to have Sunday hours at each of the centers, then they should shift the hours around at the individual SWCCs rather than shift hours from one center to another center. Commissioner Gordon agreed. A motion was made by Commissioner Hemminger, seconded by Commissioner Yuhasz to approve proposed fee rate increases for solid waste. VOTE: UNANIMOUS A motion was made by Commissioner Hemminger, seconded by Commissioner McKee to ask staff to come back with a plan to open SWCCs on half-day Sundays in a workable financial model; including that the hours will be shifted only within each center and will be standardized. VOTE: UNANIMOUS A motion was made by Commissioner Yuhasz, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to adopt the Solid Waste CIP as recommended. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Fundinq for Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools and Oranqe County Schools Clarence Grier said that the total funding for schools is $83.5 million, which is 47.1% of the General Fund Budget. The target is 48.1%. Adding in the non-mandated services of school health nurses, social workers, and school resource officers would take the funding to 48.1%. One additional item is $662,196 for reserving fund balance for the savings of debt service. This would provide the same amount of funding that was provided last fiscal year. Because of the shift in students, the same amount of money does increase slightly the per- pupil allocation. Commissioner Hemminger said that the $600,000 issue is very complicated. Frank Clifton said that he understands the confusion, but this is the only way that makes sense.