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Non-Departmental Cammissioner Jacobs said that the Spartsplex membership discount should be reflected in employee benefits. Commissioner Jacobs asked why there is $0 far OWASA fees. Donna Coffey will bring back more information on this. Commissioner Gordan asked clarifying questions about the 96% salary budgeting versus the $1 million. Donna Coffey said that the 96°lo took the place of the $1 million. Cammissioner Gordon asked where the Staff Attorney shows up and Laura Blackmon said the Manager's Office. Cammissioner Jacobs made reference to the Blackwood and Cate Operations and said that he would like to know about the caretakers an these properties. Commissioner Jacobs made reference to Recruitment and said that there was a discussion at agenda review, and he would like to ask the Board to think about having department heads live in Orange County. Chair Carey agreed. Commissioner Gordon asked what was left in the Critical Needs/Safety Reserve and it was answered $270,000. Commissioner Gordon said she would like to track the total amount proposed for this reserve far this fiscal year. Donna Coffey made reference to Appendix H-3, which has a history of what has been unspent each year and carried forward. Laura Blackman further clarified this fund. Chair Carey said that the $270,000 is a carryover from the current year. The part that will impact the tax rate this year, if it is done, is $125,000. This is the bottom line. Laura Blackmon said that next year the Board will be reviewing some of these things earlier than eight days before the budget is adopted. There will also be some reorganizing and redefinition in the fall of capital items, budgeted reserve funds, and rollover funds. 5. Fire Districts This item is addressed on page 6-1. Laura Blackman said that the Damascus Fire District has asked for an increase from $160,000 to $185,000 for next year. The other two increases are for South Orange Fire District (.3 cents) and White Cross Fire District (.8 cents). Commissioner Jacobs said that this is assuming that the study that the School of Government is doing will cost no money and that there will be no budget implications. He said that this is a dysfunctional part of the budget process. He said that the Board needs the study before it can review this in an intelligent way. Laura Blackmon said that it is her fault that this is not budgeted. She will come up with a number. Commissioner Jacobs asked about any requests from the rescue squad and Laura Blackmon said that it made a request for $60,000 for this year. Donna Coffey said that the County received a letter earlier in the year that the rescue squad would be submitting a request, but there has been no request. Commissioner Jacobs said to acknowledge the rescue squad as a courtesy. 6. Further Discussion of Potential Budget Modifications Cammissioner Jacobs made reference to the positions that were requested but not funded and said that there was considerable work done to set up a framework to do one-stop permitting. He asked if the Permit Systems Specialist was part of this. Laura Blackmon said that this was support for the Permits Plus system. Planning Director Craig Benedict said that Permits Plus would be part of the central permitting system, which was suggested to be paid for by a technology fee. The Permits Systems Specialist would augment the present permitting system to help in the central permitting goal.