ORD-2000-035 Budget Amendment #11

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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 16, 2000 Action Agenda Item No. SUBJECT: Budget Amendment#11 DEPARTMENT: Budget Office PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: 1. Budget As Amended Spreadsheet Donna Dean, 245-2151 2. Orange County Schools Capital Project Ordinances TELEPHONE NUMBERS: 3. Status of Commissioners' Contingency Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To approve budget amendments and Orange County Schools Capital Project Ordinances. BACKGROUND: Amendments for Items Approved by Prior Board Action 1. Shearon Harris Spent Fuel Storage Project Financial Update Through April 30, 2000, the BOCC has authorized the expenditure of up to $211,300 for investigation and intervention in the Shearon Harris Spent Fuel Storage Project. A grant obtained by NCWARN will offset $15,000 of this expense. Approximately $48,000 of the authorized expenditures were actually paid in FY 1998-99. The County has received pledges and/or actual contributions totaling $20,000 from Durham County and the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill to defray some of the expenses involved in this legal challenge. .A balance of $128,300 in County funds will be required to cover work on the Shearon Harris project authorized by the BOCC through April 30, 2000. The BOCC included a larger than normal Contingency appropriation of $175,000 in the adopted FY 1999-00 budget in anticipation that there would be significant expenses required to pursue this legal process. The BOCC has appropriated $37,900 from Contingency thus far in 1999-00, leaving a total of $137,900 uncommitted. This amendment appropriates Commissioner Contingency of $128,300 and budgets $20,000 from the local governments to cover the project-to-date expenditure authorizations.