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Custodian to provide custodial care and address additional square footage that <br />has come online in recent years <br />• Recreation and Parks <br />- Park Conservation Technician to provide necessary maintenance and operational <br />care at current facilities <br />Social Services <br />- Income Maintenance Caseworker II to address increases in the number of <br />individuals and families requesting Medicaid and Food Stamp services <br />• Time-limited, effective 2 years from the hire date <br />Social Worker to provide early intervention services to families with certain risk <br />factors in order to prevent the need for more expensive and intrusive intervention <br />later <br />New Staff Beainnina February 1, 2005 <br />• Rural Curbside Recycling Program <br />- Increase of 5 FTE <br />3 Recycling Materials Handlers <br />2 Solid Waste Collectors <br />To operate the rural curbside recycling program as an in-house function <br />• Current program is contracted with outside vendor, Waste Industries <br />• Potential cost savings of approximately $800,000 over the next ten years <br />Organizational Initiatives <br />• Animal Services <br />- Positions approved by BOCC on May 18, 2004 <br />• 14 positions to staff and operate the Shelter effective July 1, 2004 <br />• Animal Control Officer effective July 1, 2004 funded by revenue from Town of <br />Chapel Hill <br />• Emergency Transportation <br />- 8 Emergency Medical Technicians effective October 1, 2004 <br />- Completes the final phasing of staff needed to provide Emergency Transportation <br />• Staff Attorney <br />- Supplement legal services provided by County Attorney <br />Solid Waste Enterprise Fund <br />Fiscal Year 2004-05 Budget Focus <br />• Orange County leads the State with a per capita waste reduction of 45 percent <br />• July 2004 implementation of Waste Reduction, Reuse and Recycling Fee structure <br />• Establishment of financial stability in the Fund through "3R Fee" <br />• Rural curbside recycling program comes "in-house" in spring 2005 <br />- Cost savings over time, improved quality of service <br />• Minor program enhancements include: <br />- Curbside dry cell battery collection <br />- Infill of addresses into rural and urban curbside recycling routes <br />