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• Overall share of County budget is 48.4 percent <br />- BOCC funding target is 48.1 percent <br />- According to the Public School Forum of North Carolina, "county education funding <br />generally consumes one-third of local budgets." <br />• CHCCS District Tax remains at 20 cents per $100 valuation <br />- Anticipated collections of $12.9 million <br />• Equivalent of $1,178 per student <br />Proposed Per Pupil Appropriation of $2,620 <br />• Orange County Board of Commissioners allocate school funding to each district based an an <br />equal per pupil amount <br />- Commissioners do not appropriate money to the Schools for individual line-items <br />or specific purposes <br />• Increase of $54 over the FY 2003-04 allocation of $2,566 <br />Bath systems experiencing increases in student membership <br />- Orange County Schools - 127 students <br />- Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools - 277 students <br />- Cost to fund increase in students totals $1,036,664 or the equivalent of 1.03 cents <br />on the tax rate <br />- Cost Required to Fully Fund School Requests <br />County Highlights <br />• County assumes responsibility far providing animal services effective July 1 <br />• Budget reflects rising demand for public assistance and public health needs of residents <br />• Homeland Security capital grant funds of $1.4 million will enable County to improve the <br />reliability and linkages for emergency responder agencies <br />• Completes transition of Emergency Medical Transportation from rescue squad to County <br />functions <br />• Retains Social Safety Net to help address budgetary crises in human services programs <br />County Highlights <br />• Allows for debt repayment of first two issues of 2001 voter approved bonds and alternative <br />financing plan <br />- Examples of financed projects include new schools, parks, affordable housing, Orange <br />County satellite campus of Durham Tech <br />