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A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Foushee to fund Orange Community Housing and Land Trust by $35,000. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Chair Carey pointed out that Chapel Hill and Carrbora also budgeted funds far the Land Trust. A motion was made by Commissioner Foushee, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to fund the Public Health Reserve Carps by $17,000 for one year only, dependent upon future grants. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Commissioner Jacobs said that he added Special Olympics and Leaf Light because he wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, since they may have missed the deadline. Laura Blackman said that because the organizations had not requested funding, she had redistributed the $14,500 to JOCCA ($5,000), Gravelly Middle School ($5,000), and the food bank ($4,500). Commissioner Gordon said that there are a lot of organizations that got their applications in on time, and were not granted funds, so it would not be fair to change the rules. She said that she would support HYAA getting $1,125. Commissioner Nelson agreed with Commissioner Gordon. A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Foushee to fund HYAA by $1,125. VOTE: UNANIMOUS A motion was made by Commissioner Gordan, seconded by Commissioner Foushee to zero out the increase in the Critical Needs Reserve, leaving $145,000. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Commissioner Jacobs said that he had two other things. One was to put in $10,000 far a consultant to work an the interoperability of the two library systems, using the Medicaid monies. A motion was made by Commissioner Nelson, seconded by Commissioner Gordon to allocate $10,000 for a library interoperability consultant. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Commissioner Jacobs said that the only other thing that he would raise is adding $188,000 to fair funding - $94,000 to OCS to cover the nurse and a half position far a social worker and $94,000 for CHCCS. Commissioner Gordon said that she would rather try to put this on the ad valorem and try to do something mare for OCS. She said that if something is not done on the ad valorem for OCS, it will never be moved forward substantially. Commissioner Jacobs said that he had only anticipated $700,000 worth of cuts, but now it is over $1.1 million. He said that if this is allocated back per pupil, OCS will get the money without having to raise the tax rate. For OCS, 50150 works better than 38162. Commissioner Gordan said that she prefers to do more on the ad valorem and Commissioner Nelson agreed. Chair Carey said that he has a problem with the fair funding reserve when it gets into line item implications.