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2 <br />3. Planning Department <br />The Planning department has received $17,000 from Crown Castle USA for two Special Use . <br />Class B Permits for cell towers. The department plans to place these funds in an escrow <br />account to pay The Center for Municipal Solutions for telecommunication consulting fees. (See <br />Attachment 1, column #3) <br />4. Health Department <br />The Health department has received additional State revenue for the following programs: <br />~- The Health Department has received notification of additional federal Family Planning <br />Title. X funds totaling $12,215. The State's premise for allocating these funds centers on <br />a minimum basis per. county and additional funds based on the number of patients seen <br />in the Family Planning Clinic during the previous year. The department plans to use <br />these funds to offset costs of operating the Family Planning clinics. As required by the <br />grant agreement, the department must spend these funds by May 31, 2008. This budget <br />amendment provides for the receipt of these additional funds. <br />~- The Health Department has also received $10,060 Medicaid Administrative funds in the <br />form of General Aid-to-County funds. The department plans to use these funds to offset <br />non-permanent personnel related costs to help with new and existing Medicaid programs, <br />including refugee and immigrant health. <br />This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these funds. (See Attachment 1, column #4) <br />5. Public, Educational and Government (PEG) Channels <br />Orange County has received grant funds totaling $3,950 from the Rural Economic Development <br />Center, Inc, to continue activities related to the County's PEG channels. The County plans to <br />use these a-NC grant funds to help in the purchase of audio visual equipment necessary to film <br />government and community events outside of the Chapel Hill location allowing staff to edit and <br />broadcast the programs on Time Warner channel 265, the public access channel. This <br />equipment represents aone-time investment that can be used to make thousands of hours of <br />video over many years. (See Attachment 1, column # 5) <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: Financial impacts are included in the background information above. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board of County Commissioners <br />approve the budget amendments for fiscal year 2007-08. <br />