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1 ORANGE COUNTY 1 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No _=-D ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: March 15, 1994 SUBJECT: Budget Amendment# 9 DEPARTMENT Budget Office PUBLIC HEARING YES_ NO )e ATTACHMENT(S) INFORMATION CONTACT Proposed Budget Ordinance Amendment Budget Office Ext. 2150 TELEPHONE NUMBER Chapel Hill High School (Phase II) Capital Hillsborough 732-8181 Project Ordinance Chapel Hill 968-4501 Mebane 227-2031 Durham 688-7331 PURPOSE To approve proposed budget ordinance amendment and capital project ordinance. BACKGROUND (1) On March 1, 1994, the Board of County Commissioners approved a $15,000 funding request for Orange County Community Housing Corporation (OCHC). This appropriation, from the Commissioners' contingency account, will allow OCHC to continue its Home Buyer Education Program through the end of fiscal year 1993- 94. (2) The Orange County Library has recently received two unanticipated donations. A $4,000 donation from the Friends of the Orange County Public Library will be used to purchase reference books. The "Friends" have specifically asked that $3,200 of this contribution be used to update and expand the science and history sections of the adult reference collection, and the remainder be used to help rebuild the children's reference collection. Additional donations, totaling $476, have been received in memory of Mrs. Aileen Ray. Mrs. Ray, a former Hyconeechee Regional Board member, was a library volunteer who was especially fond of the "North Carolina Room." These funds will be used to purchase books for this section of the library. This budget amendment will accept these additional funds and allow the purchase of these books. (3) The Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools plan as part of Phase II of the Chapel Hill High School project to construct a transportation center. This center includes office and meeting space, a two-bay garage, and parking for 65 school buses and for employees. The present parking area at the high school will be redesigned and repaired to provide additional employee and visitor parking. Currently the Board of Commissioners has approved, in a capital project ordinance, Phase II of the Chapel Hill High School project. There is no project ordinance for the transportation center, since this project is included in the future years of the Capital Improvements Plan. The Chapel HIII/Carrboro Board of Education has accelerated the schedule for the transportation center and has consolidated this project into Phase II of the High School. The Board of Education requests that the Board of County Commissioners adopt the attached capital project ordinance, which changes the title of the approved capital project ordinance and expands the scope of the Chapel Hill High School (Phase II) project to include the transportation center. RECOMMENDATION The Manager recommends that the Board of County Commissioners adopt the proposed budget ordinance amendment and capital project ordinances.