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John Link asked Gwen Harvey and Milan Pham to develop this. Chair Jacobs pointed out that this person would also need to be compensated appropriately since it would be more responsibility. Category 4 is change from temporary to permanent status. John Link said that three positions are in Animal Services and one is in Information Technology. He said that these Animal Services positions are something they felt necessary to provide services to citizens. One position relates to animal control and the others are in the shelter. Animal Services Director Bob Moratto said that these positions are needed to operate the shelter appropriately. In reference to Animal Control, this person has been working as a 40-hour temporary person since 2003. All positions are essential positions they have been filling with temporary employees and would be better served by permanent employees. Jahn Link said that this is a tangible example of using temporary personnel funding to fund permanent employees. Bob Moratto said that the majority of temporary funding would go away and if they did not make these positions permanent, they would need over $100,000 for temporary employees next year. Commissioner Carey asked about temporary funding that Animal Services is requesting and said that in other places temporary funding is going up. John Link said that they would provide temporary funding information to the County Commissioners. Donna Dean-Coffey said that $50,000 is budgeted for Animal Services for next year compared to $81,000. This is in Appendix B page 5. Bob Moratto said that they did originally request $119,226 in temporary funds to ensure adequate staffing. After the conversion from temporary to permanent funds, they are still requesting $50,000 in temporary funds for service contracts for after-hours services, courier services, etc. Chair Jacobs asked if Orange County picked up the EARS contract when it took over the Animal Shelter from both Towns. Gwen Harvey said yes. Chair Jacobs said that he would be interested to hear the history about when the price changed. He said that $6,000 for one town does not seem very much compared to $75,000 for the other town. Bob Moratto said that the contracts with Chapel Hill and Carrboro have different scopes of services. Category 5 is New School Related Positions to be Funded Outside of the Per- Pupil Allocation. Commissioner Carey asked about the fair funding and Chair Jacobs said that this is in addition to the fair funding. Commissioner Halkiotis said that when Rod Visser brought forward the $800,000 for the fair funding reserve, he had concerns because he was not sure who was paying for what and how much of the Safe Schools money was being used by schools for this service. He made reference to the SRO's column, Funded by CHCCS local funds $178,000, with the total far CHCCS $357,000. The total for OCS SRO's is $180,000. He said that what is buried in there is that the Sheriff is putting in money for this program. He said that if you add it all up, there is over $1 million for SRO's. Commissioner Halkiotis said that in the OCS budget, they are not asking for SRO's because the Sheriff is asking for them. Commissioner Carey asked how many SRO's the Sheriff is funding and Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass said that they currently use five full-time officers with one temporary, which is a retired Sheriff's officer that fills in when needed. He said that when the SRO's are not working at the schools, they are working elsewhere in the department.