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Attachment A 17 <br /> Orange County Board of County Commissioners <br /> Budget Goals Fiscal 2014/2015 <br /> 1. Defending the quality of public education <br /> 2. Insure our safety net services <br /> 3. Funding for sewer and hook ups in Rogers Road area( construction) <br /> 4. , Targeted funding to address child poverty i.e., increase childcare subsidies <br /> 5. Support broad range of economic development— new and existing businesses <br /> ( make sure to support infrastructure) <br /> 6. Consider limit to viability of tax increase <br /> 7. Address hunger issues with children ( additional subsidies) <br /> 8. Continue improvement in Public Safety <br /> 9. Consider jail alternatives, maintain funding for drug treatment court <br /> 10. Give priority to funding core county services ( before discretionary services) <br /> 11. Reducing inequities in funding between two school districts, even if it means <br /> raising the general property tax ( since once school has a school district tax) <br /> Other Goals discussed at the Retreat <br /> • Resources to download agenda items individually rather than en masse <br /> • Ensure Information Technology approach is state of the art for Board of County <br /> Commissioners, citizens, transparency <br /> • Address inequities through long term plan <br /> • Sound land use planning <br /> • Re-visit school funding equity as means of challenging their assumptions <br /> • Consider jail alternatives, maintain funding for drug treatment court <br /> • Address school to prison pipeline <br />