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balances. Commissioner Foushee said that in CHCCS it is a recommendation from the Superintendent to the school board. Commissioner Halkiotis would like to know what both systems had for a fund balance from March-May and if any of the fund balances have been spent down. He is still troubled with the request from OCS for $2.3 million for Gravelly Hill Middle School startup costs. He finds this upsetting because he does not know haw they are going to pay for this. He wants to see complete openness in this process. Commissioner Foushee extended congratulations to the County Commissioner candidates. Commissioner Foushee said that she and Chair Jacobs attended the Leadership Advisory Committee meeting for Carolina North today. They were still resolving process issues, but she wants to make sure everyone knaves that the meetings are recorded to be shown at a later time. There is time allotted during the meetings to make public comment. The next meeting is June 1St at 4:00 p.m. at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business. Commissioner Gordon thanked the voters for nominating her for the Board of County Commissioners. Commissioner Gordon said that they talked about a fair funding work group at the joint school board meeting and this meeting is not finalized yet. She thinks that it would be a good idea for the County Commissioners on the task force to have a more formal role in the meetings and setting up the meetings. She asked far permission of the Board to have she and Commissioner Foushee designated as Co-Chairs of the task force so that they can be involved in setting up the meetings and preparing the agenda packets. She also wants to ask the Dispute Settlement Center to help facilitate the meetings. There will only be two meetings. Commissioner Carey asked about the work group and the product of the meetings, since he was absent from the meeting where it was discussed. Commissioner Gordon explained it. The idea is whether any progress toward fair funding can be accomplished with this budget cycle. There will be three members from each school board and two from the County Commissioners. John Link said that it would be helpful if the Board talked about the expectations of staff. He is struggling to determine what this group would do. He said that there is only one source of revenue to address this -the property tax. He said that he has had personal reservations about this from the beginning. Chair Jacobs said that they did ask about what statutory limitations there were for nursing positions, if they could be reapportioned to other functions, and to investigate further the issue of social workers. He thinks that it is more a question of the two County Commissioners identifying materials that they consider germane. Commissioner Gordon said that they are not promising anything out of the work group except to explore and try to have resolution. Chair Jacobs said that he wants to make it clear that this group is short term. Commissioner Gordon said that the Homestead Road Safety Task Force met on April 6t" and DOT representatives were there. Karen Lincoln has provided a report and completion of the project is scheduled for August 24t". There are other issues such as paved shoulders for the bikeway, but this is good news. Commissioner Gordon said that they are having a celebration for the Northern Human Services Center walking track on May 31St at 5:30 p.m. Commissioner Gordan said that the Durham-Chapel Hill- Carrboro Transportation Advisory Committee is going to meet next Wednesday and they decided, upon recommendation from The Commission for the Environment, to consider that the Motor Emission Budget for this area should be county by county. She said that she would vote how the Board of Commissioners has instructed her to vote.