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20 <br />1 Chair Jacobs said the Carrboro library will potentially siphon off many of the County <br />2 users of the Chapel Hill library, and this may also reduce the amount of funding to Chapel Hill. <br />3 Commissioner Dorosin said if there is no progress, then the two should go their <br />4 separate ways. <br />5 <br />6 Planning and Inspections, OPT and Efland Sewer, Pg. 380 (including Fee <br />7 Schedule change requests, Pg. 490 and Non - Departmental Items, Pg. 346) <br />8 <br />9 Darryl Butts noted the change to Efland Sewer on page 490. He said the requested rate <br />10 change has been cancelled and the rate will stay at the current year amount. He said the fee <br />11 schedule needs to be adjusted. <br />12 Darryl Butts said there is a net County increase of $70,000 in the general fund for 2014- <br />13 15. He said the expenditure increase is $255,000 and there is a revenue increase of $186,000. <br />14 He said the Planning Division has a $21,000 item increase, primarily within salaries, but <br />15 Orange Public Transportation is the main budget driver. <br />16 He reviewed points from the following budget highlights: <br />17 <br />18 Administrative Division <br />19 Budget Highlights <br />20 Budget Highlights <br />21 • The FY14 -15 Manager Recommended Budget includes $3,380 in Capital Outlay; the funds <br />22 are within the IT Equipment account and are for the purchase of a portable printer, a Trimble <br />23 GEO GPS system, and ARCPAD software. <br />24 • Continued work on BOCC identified 2009 -12 priorities and updated in 2013 and 2014, <br />25 including further implementation of adopted small area plans, a joint land use plan with the <br />26 Town of Hillsborough, and work on economic development districts and processes and <br />27 upcoming bond discussions. <br />28 <br />29 Current Planning Division <br />30 Budget Highlights <br />31 • Initiation of new and expanded OPT bus services. <br />32 • Assist in monitoring and implementation of the OC Transit Plan. <br />33 <br />34 Engineering Division <br />35 Budget Highlights <br />36 • Efland Sewer Budget — the Efland Sewer Fund rate is recommended to increase from $13.39 <br />37 per 1,000 gallons to $14.33 per 1,000 gallons, this is consistent with what Mebane out -of -town <br />38 sewer rate will be in FY14 -15. The cost to run the system continues to increase; however, at a <br />39 greater rate than the revenue from sewer charges. As a result, the shortfall in the operating <br />40 budget is projected to be slightly higher than last year. (Change to this item noted in <br />41 comments above) <br />42 • The FY14 -15 Manager Recommended Budget includes a General Fund subsidy (Transfer <br />43 from General Fund) of $143,750 compared to $103,050 in FY13 -14. <br />44 • Engineering Division will be combining with the Erosion Control /Stormwater Division beginning <br />45 with the FY14 -15 budget year. Because the new supervisor has not yet been named, the <br />46 individual divisions are preparing budget documents separately. Next year, it is likely the two <br />47 divisions will have a combined budget rather than two separate division budgets. <br />48 <br />49 Orange Public Transportation Division <br />50 Budget Highlights <br />