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Commissioner Foushee asked when the County Commissioners are making a decision on the option, if it is the staff's expectation that they will also make a decision on the programming of the $12.8 million. John Link said that they do not need to be decided upon simultaneously necessarily, but should be decided upon in the next two weeks. There is another work session on May 5t" and the Board can talk about the $12.8 million. b. Major Budget Drivers for FY 2005-06 John Link said that this is the Budget Building Blocks PowerPoint presentation. Donna Dean said that at the County Commissioners' retreat in January, the staff outlined some major budget drivers far this year. Fiscal Year 2005-06 Budget Building Blocks: • One cent on property tax estimated to generate between $1,150,000 and $1,160,000 o Expect "revenue neutral" tax rate to be in the mid-70 cents range • Non-Property Tax Revenue {for example, fees and intergovernmental) estimated growth between 2 and 3 percent • Less fund balance available to appropriate than prior years CHCCS is expected to lose students next year according to DPI. She never remembers this happening. The net increase far students in both districts is only 58 students. If the per pupil allocation stays the same at $2,623, there would be a decrease in appropriation for CHCCS of $322,629 and an increase in appropriation for OCS of $474,763. When this happened to the OCS a couple of years ago, there was a hold harmless piece in the current expense appropriation piece, in that they made sure that OCS would not lose any current expense money. If this is done again this year for CHCCS, it would bring the per pupil up next year to $2,653. Commissioner Halkiotis said that it should be included in the information to the school boards next week that the County requested enabling legislation to allocate the per pupil the way DPI allocates it -based on actual numbers and not projections. Donna Dean then went over the next chart of Budget Building Blocks. There are projected increases of $10,441,674 and they include: - programmed debt service - $2.2 million - Medicaid - $560,000 - funding of positions added during 2004-05 - $445,000 - operational increases due to rising fuel and utility costs - $450,000 - pay plan - $1.5 million - reinstate school recurring capital from 2 cents to 3 cents and County capital funding from zero to 1 cent - $2.3 million - funding for net increase of 58 students - $152,134 - per pupil amount to hold CHCCS "harmless" for loss of 123 students - $534,540 - additional funding to begin addressing school funding equity - $2.3 million John Link said that he did not plan on recommending any new employees next year, but he would like to implement the pay plan and take care of the current employees. John Link said that there is not any magic revenue to overcome these increases other than property tax increases. Commissioner Jacobs asked for a history of tax increases per year. John Link said that in the last 4 years, the County Commissioners have increased the tax rate about 8 cents overall. The previous 4 years was about 14 cents.