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which is about 3.6 cents on the tax rate. They anticipate somewhere between a 10-15% increase in Medicaid, which would be between $400-600,000. Based on a three-year average of student increases of 355 new students, this equates to almost $1 million based on the current per-pupil allocation. There are several new facilities coming online in the next two years such as (specifications and projected costs are included in attachment 1 a}: Chapel Hill Senior Center, Central Orange Senior Center, Durham Technical Community College satellite campus, Fairview Park, Justice Facility, Northern Park, and Sportsplex Operations. Other issues include removing the hiring delay, implementing the new County capital funding policy (restore one cent in recurring capital to schools and one cent in long-range capital to County), Pay Plan, and employee benefits. Other issues further down the road include operational increases far new school openings {OCS Gravelly Hill Middle School and CHCCS High Schaal #3}, custodial strategic plan, mental health transition, addressing long-term temporary employees, employees' transportation/courthouse shuttle, staff attorney, water resources initiative, outcome of fire and rescue study, Efland sewer, sanitation transition to solid waste, and anticipated additional revenue from lottery proceeds. Commissioner Halkiotis said that when Public Works is doing a strategic custodial plan, they need to look into using private cleaning services. Both school systems have done this. John Link said that they would be looking into this with Orange Enterprises. Commissioner Carey asked about the costs of the fire and rescue study and where they would come from. Rod Visser said that there are no assumptions on this yet. There might be little to no impact on the general fund. Donna Dean made reference to row 31 of attachment 1 a and said that all of the known items add up to $12.1-12.9 million. There are a lot of unknowns. This equates to 10.1-10.8 cents. John Link said that they were not saying that there would be a 10-cent tax increase next year, but these are the budget drivers. Commissioner Carey said that this is the worst-case scenario and he noticed that the debt service begins to go down in the second year. Chair Jacobs asked how much of the debt service was what was promised to the voters in the 2001 bond. Donna Dean said that she would do some analysis for this answer. Everything that has been financed to this paint was on the original debt issuance schedule for the 2001 bond. Chair Jacobs said that he thinks they projected aseven-cent tax implication. He just wants to know if the Board did what it promised with the bond. Commissioner Halkiotis said that this needs to be answered as soon as possible. Chair Jacobs said that there are other casts in the goals and objectives and he would like to keep a list of these expenditures also that are not captured in the larger expenditures. Commissioner Carey suggested adding another expenditure item, school equity, as #27. Fund Balance: Donna Dean made reference to attachments 1 b-1 and 1 b-2, which deal with fund balance. Attachment 1 b-2 is a chart of the last five years and the staff equated the amount of fund balance appropriated each year to what the tax rate would be. This year, no fund balance was appropriated. Chair Jacobs asked if there was an estimate of what the fund balance would be at the end of this fiscal year. Donna Dean said that they do not have this information yet, but they will look very seriously at it in late February and March. John Link said that they intend that it will be na less than 10°~. Commissioner Halkiotis requested that they avoid getting fund balances far both school systems so late. He would like to get this information earlier. Jahn Link said that they will try