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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: April 21, 1998 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. saw <br /> SUBJECT: Budget Amendment#8 <br /> DEPARTMENT: Budget Office PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) <br /> BUDGET AMENDMENT: (YIN) <br /> ATTACHMENTS): <br /> 1) Proposed Budget Amendment INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 2) Water Quality Improvements Grant Project Donna Dean, Budget Director <br /> Ordinance extension 2151 <br /> 3) Intensive Home Visiting Grant Project <br /> Ordinance TELEPHONE NUMBERS: - <br /> 4) Senior Net Grant Project Ordinance Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> 5) Efland Cheeks Community School Park Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Capital Project Ordinance Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider proposed budget ordinance amendments, grant project ordinances and <br /> capital project ordinance. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> Soil and Water Conservation District <br /> 1) At its April 7, 1998 meeting, the Board of County Commissioners approved a joint <br /> agreement with the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources and <br /> the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service. Under the joint agreement, these agencies <br /> will fully fund a position to provide technical assistance to farmers and landowners and <br /> using best nutrient management practices, reduce the nitrogen delivered to the Neuse River. <br /> The reduction goal is 30 percent within a five-year period from 1998 until 2003. The <br /> attached Water Quality Improvements Grant Project Ordinance on page 4 of this abstract <br /> provides funding for the first year of this program and authorizes the associated full time <br /> equivalent position through September 30, 1998. <br /> Health Department <br /> 2) The Board of County Commissioners accepted a grant from the N.C. Division of Women <br /> and Children's Health for an Intensive Home Visiting grant. The grant provides funds to <br /> decrease child abuse and neglect; improve parent-child interaction; ensure adequate use of <br /> preventive family support services; improve children's health and development; and <br /> improve the service delivery system in Orange County by decreasing fragmentation and <br />