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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 25, 2013 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 1 <br />SUBJECT: Presentation of Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools <br />Boards of Education Approved FY 2013 -14 Operating and Capital Budgets <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager and Finance PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />and Administrative Services <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />A. Orange County Schools Board of <br />Education FY2013 -14 Budget <br />Request <br />To be provided under separate cover <br />B. CHCCS Board of Education FY2013- <br />14 Budget Request <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Frank Clifton, (919) 245 -2306 <br />Clarence Grier (919) 245 -2453 <br />Tom Forcella, (919) 967 -8211 <br />Patrick Rhodes, (919) 732 -8126 <br />PURPOSE: To receive the Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools <br />Boards of Education approved FY2013 -14 operating and capital budget requests. <br />BACKGROUND: The Board of County Commissioners established a funding target for schools <br />in previous years of 48.1% of County General Fund revenues. The target is exclusive of the <br />County's share of Durham Technical Community College funding and is consistent with the <br />school funding target endorsed by Commissioners in May 2000. The following school related <br />components are included in calculation of the target percentage: <br />Local Current Expense - supplements State and Federal funds received by each district for the <br />day -to -day operation of schools. Examples of expenses paid from these funds include salaries <br />and benefits for locally paid teachers and utilities. Counties having more than one school <br />administrative unit, as is the case in Orange County, are required to provide equal per pupil <br />appropriations to each system. The funding level, however, is discretionary and varies from <br />county to county. <br />Recurring Capital - pays for facility improvements, equipment, furnishings, and vehicle and bus <br />purchases. State statutes mandate counties to fund recurring capital, however the amount of <br />money counties allocate to this function is discretionary and varies from county to county. Equal <br />per pupil allocations required by law for current expense appropriations are not applicable to this <br />category of local school funding. <br />