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i 99 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: December 7, 1999 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. g_ <br /> SUBJECT: Budget Amendment#5 <br /> DEPARTMENT: Budget Office PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1999-00 Budget As Amended Spreadsheet Donna Dean, extension 2151 <br /> Syphilis Elimination Grant Project Ordinance <br /> Breast and Cervical Cancer Program Grant TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Project Ordinance Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> CHCCS Glenwood.Elementary Capital Project Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Ordinance (Architect, Planning, Engineering <br /> Phase) Durham 688-7331 <br /> Request Letter from New Hope Fire Mebane 336-227-2031 <br /> Department for Use of Unappropriated Fund <br /> Balance <br /> PURPOSE: To approve budget amendments, grant project ordinances and capital project ordinances. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> Amendments for Items Approved by Prior Board Action <br /> Health Department <br /> 1) According to statistics, Orange County has a large number of reported primary and secondary. <br /> syphilis cases. Last fiscal year, the Orange County Health Department received funds to <br /> implement a screening and referral system for high-risk populations.. Recently, the Department <br /> received confirmation of a four-year continuation grant for the Syphilis Elimination Project. The <br /> Board of County Commissioners accepted the continuation grant on November 17, 1999. In <br /> addition, at that meeting, the Board approved a new permanent full-time equivalent Public Health <br /> Educator position for the project. The attached Syphilis Elimination Grant Project Ordinance <br /> establishes the budget of$43,000 for the current fiscal year. No County funds are required for the <br /> receipt of these funds. <br /> Amendments for Items Included in the 1999-09 Capital Investment Plan <br /> Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools <br /> 2) The Board of County Commissioners approved the County's ten-year Capital Investment Plan on <br /> June 21. While the funding plan as a whole was approved, the Board decided to change the <br /> individual project approval process. <br /> For projects that have a relatively small scope of work, the Board decided to approve the entire <br /> project ordinance at one time. Since the beginning of this fiscal year, the Board has approved <br />