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John Link recommended that the Board pursue this list by exception, if there are any questions Commissioner Gordon asked if this list was the same agencies as last year and Donna Dean said yes. Commissioner Gordon said that there was a slight rise in outside agency funding Commissioner Carey asked about the $100,000 for school collaboration initiatives. Rod Visser said that this was just an idea that the staff discussed if the budget allowed. Commissioner Carey asked about $100,000 for Human Services reserve. Donna Dean said that they carried forward $150,000 from last year into the current year. They plan to have the money on the sheet and carry over any unspent funds. Chair Jacobs asked about the $6,000 far the Rural Planning Organization. It was answered that these are the matching funds. Chair Jacobs asked for a report on JOCCA because he has not heard anything in years. Commissioner Carey said that he serves on that board and it is doing well. Chair Jacobs asked about childcare services and John Link said that this is administrative funding. Chair Jacobs asked about the ArtsCenter and why the recommendation was only $5,000 and last year it was $20,000. John Link said that the year we are in right now represents the last year of amulti-year agreement appropriation between the County and the ArtsCenter far $15,000 per year toward their capital campaign. It was a ten-year agreement. John Link said that he had a good discussion with Jon Wilner, who understands why only $5,000 was recommended. The ArtsCenter is still requesting $20,000 far capital or operations Chair Jacobs said that there was $9,000 budgeted for an art display in this building, which is almost twice as much as what is being given to the ArtsCenter. He asked staff to think about which would serve a better purpose. Chair Jacobs made reference to the reconvened Library Services Task Force (blue sheet) that is trying to operate under a deadline so that it can make a recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners by October in order that the Board can make a recommendation by the end of the calendar year whether or not it would want to include a co-located library far the Durham Tech satellite campus. The Library Services Task Force has met twice and at the last meeting, they discussed the idea of having same help in making a scientific analysis of the needs. They came up with a proposal to spend $4,000 for hiring a consultant to do a study, of which $2,000 would be contributed by the Friends of the Orange County Library and the Friends of the Carrboro Library. The Friends of the Carrboro Library voted to pledge $1,000 on the condition that the Friends of the Orange County Library pledge $1,000 and that the County matches it. Library Services Director Brenda Stevens said that the consultant has experience in doing this type of analysis. She worked with Chapel Hill in getting $16 million for their library last year. She also did some work far Henderson County Library, doing the same thing that they are asking her to do in Orange County.