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Commissioner Gordon said that when they have time limited positions, there should be justifications if they are being recommended far permanency. Commissioner Carey asked how it was determined which time-limited positions are recommended for permanent positions and John Link said that this year, these were brought forward by the department heads or Personnel. Commissioner Carey would like to know about the other positions that are out there. Chair Jacobs suggested having the citation of the page on the budget document with each position. Chair Jacobs made reference to overtime and said that there is an answer. He said that temporary personnel is projected to go up by $20,000 and overtime by $150,000. This is toward the end of Appendix B, Line Item Detail, an the shocking pink page. He said that it was interesting that both are going up at the same time that they are supposedly adding positions to reduce these casts. Category 2 is Change in Fund Status. John Link said that this is where there are changes in additional funding, reduction in funding, ar the need for additional County funding. Chair Jacobs said that when EM5 hosted the citizen corps two-day event, he spoke with someone from Chatham County who said that they would be interested in working with Orange County on the Medical Reserve Corps. Health Director Rosemary Summers said that she had a meeting with Bill Lail, wha runs the Family Resource Center in Chatham County, a few days after that and they agreed to apply for joint grant funding. Mr. Lail was supposed to submit a letter of intent to apply far a grant. This particular grant would not be available until a year from now. Commissioner Halkiotis said that some of the most enjoyable people he heard at the budget public hearings were the nurses that spoke about the carps. He wants to know what they can do to keep this medical reserve corps going. Rosemary Summers said that they are excited to expand this program and to work with Emergency Management. Commissioner Gordon asked about the Public Health school nurse total salary and benefits. She said that they need to see the entire salary and benefits. Commissioner Gordon was impressed by the nurses wha spoke on this corps and that this leverages a lot of volunteer effort. Rosemary Summers said that they have tried to integrate volunteers into some of their other programs such as flu clinics. Chair Jacobs said that the President recommended more funding for this program, but the Chair of the Subcommittee an Homeland Security decided to send the President a message about some things that he was upset about by zeroing out these programs. Congressman Price hopes that, in conference with the Senate, the money might get put back in. Commissioner Gordon asked several clarifying questions about the Public Health School Nurse, which were answered by Rosemary Summers. Commissioner Halkiotis asked for clarification and Chair Jacobs made reference to D-8 and that $500,000 is funded by Orange County for the two school systems. This is what was agreed to infuse into both systems so that there would be one nurse per school, and then the County took back two positions that were serving the schools that are now working strictly in the Health Department. Commissioner Halkiotis made reference to D-8 and that the total cast of funding nurses in both school systems is $1.6 million. John Link said that there is a pot of money that the State provides to school systems for SRO's, etc. Commissioner Halkiotis said that the CHCCS is spending $463,000 from other funds and it does not