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He said Hillsborough has been added to the agreement since 2009 and Carrboro will soon be added. He said, with staff's intention to bring back the unified ordinance in September, he would suggest the Board consider removing the fees from the new fee schedule and delaying this addition until later. Commissioner McKee said he appreciated the suggestion to delay the fees. Commissioner Price asked about the spay/neuter fund and the differing request amounts. Paul Laughton said there is $12,600 available from the spay/neuter fund to help underwrite a position. He said that, for the first half of the year, this will directly underwrite a part time or temporary position. He said a permanent position would then be created in January, and the other half of the money would be re-directed into the operating budget to underwrite part of the cost of that permanent position. Commissioner Gordon said she would like to see the budget without the revenues associated with the Ordinance changes. Darryl Butts said the budget would be $14,000, and he can provide details on this. Bob Marotto said there would be additional deductions made to the expenditure line item to obtain the chips to microchip stray animals. Commissioner Gordon said the information needs to be systematically presented. Darryl Butts said this will be done. Commissioner Gordon asked for an explanation of how the animal recovery fits into the budget. Bob Marotto said there was a set of differential rates folded in to the ordinance for the recovery of sterilized and reproductive animals. He said this is part of the $14,000. ■ County Attorney, Pg. 92 Tonya Walton said the County Attorney's budget totals $526,000 with an increase of$37,000. Budget Highlights • Personnel cost increase reflects a mid-year, position reclassification • Flat operation budget Attorney John Roberts said the General Assembly is putting out a lot of legislation that will affect Orange County, and this will be looked at over the summer. He commended the Information Technology department, and he said the new leadership has said that contract review can now be digitized. Commissioner Dorosin said there is a mention of costs recovered through delinquent collections. He said other departments have a revenue line, and he wonders why these revenues aren't credited to this department. . Clarence Grier said this goes back to the department that generated the fees. Commissioner Dorosin asked about the difference between a legal specialist and a staff attorney. John Roberts said the current legal specialist is a licensed attorney, and she was originally in the Human Relations department. He said her position was terminated, and she was moved into his department. He said she does quite a bit of legal work and some paralegal work. Chair Jacobs suggested the Board do two more departments. ■ DEAPR-Department of Environment, Agriculture, Parks and Recreation, Pg. 99 (including Fee Schedule change requests, Pg.331 and Non-Departmental items, Pgs. 188 and 201)