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package and promised to give it back. He said that others could have screamed and jumped up and down, but the CHCCS Board took the high road. Commissioner Halkiotis asked Superintendent Carraway about page two of the PowerPoint and the percentage of school children in OCS who had some kind of disorder. Superintendent Carraway said that this was for all children and it is 10-12% of all children have same sort of emotional disturbance or disorder, something that would require a special kind of system. Commissioner Halkiotis said that the 9t" grade dropout problem has been endemic in North Carolina for a long time. He has always believed that 9t" grade dropouts begin in the 3rd and 4t"grade and just hold on. Commissioner Halkiotis made reference to page nine of the PowerPoint, Orange County Schools Savings, and asked about Waterford Sterling. Superintendent Carraway said that this was the money paid back for the roadwork done at Pathways. Commissioner Halkiotis made reference to grounds keeping crews and if OCS would consider using Orange Enterprises. Many people working on the grounds keeping crews with Orange Enterprises are students of both school systems. He commended OCS for using both sides of the paper for the CIP, but he chastised them on the budget document for only printing on one side of the paper. He said that in order to survive in the new world, they are going to have to keep kids in school and also learn haw to be environmentally conscious at all times. Commissioner Halkiotis said that he looked at the OCS PowerPoint from last year, and there was an energy conservation program, which provided cast avoidance of $178,000 in the first nine months. When the Board asked both systems for clarification a couple of weeks ago, Superintendent Carraway responded in a memo to John Link dated May 30t", and item 4, "Haw much has each district realized in energy savings?", it was answered, "At this point, we have experienced cost avoidance of $464,000, which barely covers the monthly expenses of the program of $489,000." He is confused about this. He asked if they were losing money. Superintendent Carraway said that this is one of the programs that requires investment before money is saved. When they started the program, they went for a period of 6-8 months before they actually began the program because they had to have staffing in place. There was also some technology required for the program. They expect to generate some actual dollars next year. The cost avoidance is saving them money because those are costs that they would have paid had they not had the energy management program in place. Commissioner Halkiotis said that the two Superintendents need to clear up some of the lingering questions about this. In the document, it shows Energy Management Cost Avoidance $378,913 for 2004-2005 and 2005-2006. He would like to see these numbers reduced into layman's terms. Commissioner Halkiotis went through the numbers of school health nurses for OCS. He verified that OCS does not have state-funded nurses like CHCCS. Superintendent Carraway said that they do not use any of their state funds for that. There are no funds that came specifically for nurses, but the funds came for whatever support they choose. Commissioner Halkiotis then went through the school social workers numbers for OCS. Commissioner Carey asked why CHCCS was not working with Social Services to help with 50% of their social workers. Commissioner Carey also asked how much money was associated with the 7 social workers for OCS. The document should show how much federal money is being drawn down.