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18 1 Michael Talbert said that Budget Amendment #3-B approves funding of $380,000 that 2 will be appropriated from the General Fund's Fund Balance, combined with the Fiscal Year 3 2012/13 approved reserve budget of $120,000 for a Community Center. Budget Amendment 4 #3-B transfers $500,000 from the General Fund to the County Capital Fund for this project. The 5 project is contingent on both an Interlocal Agreement with the Towns of Chapel Hill & Carrboro 6 and the approval of a contract with Habitat for Humanity for the construction and operation of a 7 Rogers Road Neighborhood. 8 9 The Manager's recommendation is to approve the creation of a County Capital Project 10 of $500,000 for a Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Community Center, authorize the 11 Manager to draft an Interlocal Agreement with the Towns and habitat to share the costs of a 12 Community Center, and approve Budget Amendment #3-B. 13 Frank Clifton said that he and the managers met about this today and there is an 14 understanding that the Towns support the cost-sharing and the Community Center. 15 Commissioner Hemminger said that she is excited that they can make this work and 16 there are details to be worked out. She is proud of the County and she is pleased that the 17 Towns want to be part of the cost-sharing. 18 Commissioner Foushee thanked the Board for its commitment to this project. She said 19 that she is grateful to her colleagues for righting an injustice to a neighborhood for 40 years. 20 A motion was made by Commissioner Hemminger, seconded by Commissioner 21 Foushee to establish a County Capital Project for $500,000 for the construction of a Rogers 22 Road Neighborhood Community Center, authorize the Manager to draft an Interlocal 23 Agreement with the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and Habitat for Humanity to share the 24 cost of the community center, and approve Budget Amendment #3-B.. 25 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 26 27 c. Pretrial Services for Chatham and Orange Counties, Inc. Request for 28 Additional Funding for FY2012-13 29 The Board considered a request from Pretrial Services for Chatham and Orange 30 Counties, Inc. to increase its original FY2012-13 funding allocation by $40,000. 31 Assistant County Manager Gwen Harvey said that the off-site agency application 32 process was held during the budget cycle in the spring. The Board of County Commissioners 33 made an appropriation of $70,000 to Pretrial Services. There was an additional request to have 34 a grand total of $110,000 to support the operations through the rest of the fiscal year. She 35 recognized Joyce Kuhn, Pretrial Administrator. She said that this is a very valuable function for 36 Orange County. 37 Joyce Kuhn spoke about the services that Pretrial provides to Orange County. 38 Frank Clifton said that one point of clarification is that the legislature has helped fund 39 this service in the past but no longer wants to do that, which is why this is coming forth now. He 40 said that he and Judge Buckner talked about the possibility about some sort of fee structure for 41 this service for the future but for now they are asking the County to fund this service. He would 42 also like to talk to Chatham County about increasing its cost-sharing. 43 Commissioner Jacobs said that he had petitioned that the County look at alternatives in 44 a holistic context. He urged the Board that the timeline for dealing with the people programs 45 occurs no later than the planning of the structure so that there can be a fair and effective 46 criminal justice system. 47 Commissioner Gordon made reference to #3 in the recommendation, "Direct staff to 48 review and strengthen subsequent performance agreements to ensure Orange County 49 investment is strictly applied to Orange County outcomes and consider alternative options to 50 current operations to help offset local costs associated with these services." She asked about