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make any of this different. She asked the County Commissioners to not delay the decision because it will <br />only make the more powerful manipulate the process and make this an election issue. She distributed <br />letters signed for the County Commissioners. <br />Liz Brown submitted a document, which follows. She said that in June the Board approved the <br />Orange County Schools budget at 85°~ of what it requested. Far five years in a row they have had na <br />expansion items, while CHCCS has had many. The superintendent borrowed from the future in some <br />cases to pay the current local needs. They are still $2 million short this year with still no Spanish programs <br />in the elementary schools, no reading recovery, no new AP courses, and no funding for the IB (International <br />Baccalaureate) program. She keeps hearing that Chapel Hill somehow subsidizes the Orange County <br />school system. She does not know where people are getting this information and it is not relevant to her <br />goal of getting fair funding. She made reference to her document and said that she verified these numbers <br />with the tax and budget offices. <br />To: The County Commissioners <br />From: Elizabeth Brawn <br />Date: 10!9103 <br />RE: Data supporting the per-pupil contribution from Orange County Schools (OCS) and Chapel <br />HilllCarrboro City Schools (CHCCS) residential taxpayers. <br />Last Tuesday I reported during the public comment portion of your BOCC meeting that OCS residential <br />taxpayers actually contribute slightly mare per student than CHCCS residential taxpayers da. {I have <br />obtained all numbers from Donna Dean and John Smith in the county offices.) Here is the math: <br />Total value of taxable "property" in Orange County: $9.889 billion <br />Total value of "property" in the Chapel HilllCarrboro City Schools district: $6.340 billion <br />Total value of "property" in the Orange County Schools district: $3.548 billion <br />Percentage of the Chapel HilUCarrboro city schools tax that comes from commercial {non-residential} <br />sources: 19 °I° <br />Percentage of property tax collected in the OCS district that comes from commercial (non-residential} <br />sources: 7 % ** <br />[**This number might actually be lower than 7; John Smith will re-check this; if it's lower, it will prove <br />OCS pays even more per-pupil than CHCCS] <br />{These numbers supplied by Donna Dean in County Budget Office) <br />A penny of property tax levied in the CHCCS district brings in: $0.01 ~ $ 625,000 <br />A penny of property tax levied in the OCS district brings in: $0.01 ~ $ 350,000 <br />CHCCS Income from residential taxpayers <br />Income from 1-cent tax: $625,000 <br />Subtract 19% commercial base: - $125,000 <br />Total residential input $500,000 - 10,500 ** _ $47.62 per student <br />*10,500 represents number of students that district sends to public schools <br />QCS Income from residential taxpayers <br />Income from 1-cent tax: $350,000 <br />