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• Debt Service for School Facilities - $18.9 million <br />• School Health Nurses - $566,744 <br />• School Social Workers - $557,272 <br />• Fair Funding for School Health and Public Safety Expenses - $800,000 <br />Debt Service <br />• County's obligation for debt increases by $4.6 million <br />- $2.2 million for partial year debt service on $59 million new debt authorized to <br />construct several new facilities including two schools, a technical community <br />college satellite campus, senior center, justice facility and soccer complex <br />- $2.4 million required to offset loss of Lottery proceeds previously dedicated to <br />repay school related debt service <br />Full Funding of Local School Requests <br />• To fully fund Orange County Schools budget request increase of $3.7 million would <br />cost 7.6 cents on ad valorem tax rate <br />To fully fund Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools budget request increase of $6.8 <br />million would cost 9.01 cents on ad valorem tax rate <br />Medicaid Uncertainty <br />• North Carolina is only state that mandates its counties to pay costs of Medicaid <br />• Recommended funding increases $545,436 bringing County's total Medicaid <br />appropriation to $4,570,236 <br />• General Assembly actions this summer may lessen funding needed in upcoming <br />fiscal year <br />Employee Pay and Benefits <br />• Majority of costs associated with recommended pay and benefits package offset by <br />salary savings <br />- 3°~ cost of living adjustment effective July 1, 2007 <br />- Reinstating in-range salary adjustments for employees with proficient or higher <br />work performance <br />- Increase in the County 401 (k} contribution for all employees (other than sworn law <br />enforcement officers} by $5 per pay period <br />- 15% increase in health insurance premiums <br />- $100,000 far a Classification, Pay, and Benefits Study <br />- Increase in the County's living wage from $9.67 per hour to $10.12 per hour <br />New Staff Resources <br />Recommendation includes 9.1 new staff resources to comply with State mandates <br />and staff new facilities <br />• Net County cost of new staff totals $259,155 <br />