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Discussion ensued on where the money for Lake Michael would be taken from Rod Visser said that they can keep track of this and they can remove it from the CIP if the Board desires. Chair Brown said that she is not in favor of dropping this. She would like to have a decision to do it based on an agreement with Mebane. She does not want to dismiss it. Commissioner Halkiotis asked if we were replacing over a quarter of a million dollars in Sheriff's vehicles every year and Jahn Link said yes, except for last year because of the cutbacks. He said that this should be highlighted so people do not get confused. Commissioner Halkiotis asked about rebuilding existing ambulances and Nick waters said that they have been re-built and they are 10 years old and these are proposed new ones. Commissioner Halkiotis asked about the emergency generators and locations for them and if there is any kind of matching grant from homeland security funds. Rod Visser said that they have a grant application far about $500,000. Commissioner Halkiotis verified that there wauld be generators placed at twa schools in the County -one in Hillsborough and one in Chapel Hill for use in the designated emergency shelters. Nick Waters said that the new initiative is to get more community support and to partner with churches, etc. far the shelters. Commissioner Halkiotis said that the County government should be taking the lead on shelters before everyone starts opening up shelters in their backyard. Chair Brown verified that the County would not sanction shelters in churches and there would be no public money involved. Commissioner Gordon said that she was not ready to address the capital issues, but only the operating at this time, since only the operating expenses were on the agenda for this evening. Decision #4: School Current Expense Commissioner Gordon said that we cut a lot of schaol recurring capital last year. Commissioner Halkiotis said that he is not supportive of these cuts and we should ask the school systems what their recurring expenses are. There are so many things that are mandated and the Orange County School system's budget is over $300,000 for mandated items. He would urge the Board to look at this because last year they cut recurring capital. It takes years to recoup. He would like to find out exactly how the school systems are using recurring capital. Chair Brown asked how much each school system got in past years. Donna Dean said that in 2001-2002 both systems got $2.2 million - $870,000 to OCS and $1.3 million to CHCCS. This year, it went down to $1.8 million -CHCCS got $1.1 million and OCS got $700,000. Next year, it is proposed to go up from $1.8 to $1.9 million. Again, CHCCS will get about $1.2 million and OCS will get about $700,000.