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General Assistance Donations -receipt of $1,225 given by Orange County citizens to be used for special needs of clients including seniors throughout the year. These funds are budgeted in a special Adoption Enhancement Fund outside of the General Fund. ' This budget amendment provides for the receipt of the above mentioned funds. (See Attachment 1, column #1) Department on Aging 2. The Department on Aging has received the following additional funds: • Health Promotion and Disease Prevention funds -The Department on Aging has received additional State Health Promotion and Disease Prevention funds of $2,792 from the Triangle J Area Agency on Aging to pay for instructors of the Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program at the Seymour and Central Orange Senior Centers. • Sponsorship funds -funds collected of $6,000 from additional sponsors of the 2011 Orange County Community Resource Guide. • State Senior Center General Purpose funds -receipt of $8,138 from the North Carolina Division on Aging to be used for temporary help at the Seymour and Central Orange Senior Centers and to purchase necessary departmental supplies. • Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program -receipt of $4,500 to provide free tax services for low- to moderate-income citizens who cannot prepare their own tax returns. The United Way of the Greater Triangle, through the Orange County Women's Center, has provided $4,500 for a nonpermanent, VITA coordinator and supplies. • Triangle Sportsplex Temporary Hours -receipt of $6,000 from the Triangle Sportsplex to provide front desk staffing so that the Sportsplex can use Central Orange Senior Center classroom space after normal Center business hours two evenings per week and Saturday mornings. This arrangement also allows Senior Center staff to program for evening and Saturday morning events when the Center would be otherwise closed. This budget amendment provides for the receipt of the above mentioned funds. (See Attachment 1, column #2) Health Department 3. The Health Department has received the following additional funds: Tobacco Control Grant Funds - an additional $1,000 from the National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH) and the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO). The Department will use these funds, along with the $5,000 the Board of Commissioners approved on Budget Amendment #2 (September 20, 2011), to coordinate aone-day planning meeting with a team of 10 community agencies with a resulting action plan for sustaining local tobacco control efforts.