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11 1 Commissioner Price asked about the capital outlay. 2 Darryl Butts said the large portion is replacing 35 laptops that were grant funded, as well 3 as 10 printers and a call system for one stop voting. 4 Tracy Reams said the replacement laptops were to replace older laptops purchased with 5 state funded money in 2008. 6 Tracy Reams referred to the staff addition. She said she would like the Board to be 7 aware that she has three people on her staff who could retire today based on age and years of 8 service. She said the additional staff person would be a benefit to not only her office but to the 9 County as a whole. 10 Commissioner Rich asked if any of the potential retirees are in positions that would be 11 hard to replace. 12 Tracy Reams said yes. 13 14 Child Support Enforcement, Pg. 91 15 Tonya Walton said Child Support Services has a cost increase of approximately 16 $1,700. She said the key budget expense drivers are Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) and 17 operational increases. 18 Janet Sparks said the cost allocation has just come in, and because of the roll forward, 19 there will be a substantial increase of 1.469 percent, which will be a $400,000 increase. She 20 said there will be a 66 percent reimbursement from the state. 21 22 Cooperative Extension, Pg. 94 23 Darrell Butts said the 2014-15 budget has a net change, which is a County decrease of 24 just under $45,000. He said this is due to an expenditure decrease of approximately $30,000 25 and a revenue increase of$15,000. He said the driver was the transfer of a position to 26 economic development and the elimination of a County operations support staff position. 27 Commissioner Gordon asked about the new cooperative extension position and why it 28 was not on the list. 29 Paul Laughton said that was done this fiscal year. 30 31 County Attorney's Office, Pg. 99-John Roberts 32 Tonya Walton said this 2014-15 budget has seen a net County increase of$14,600. 33 She said this is mostly due to cost of living adjustment, as well as a slight operations increase. 34 John Roberts said the operations increase is for digitizing contracts. He said he had 35 originally asked for $20,000 for staff salary adjustments, but Human Resources has analyzed 36 the positions and says only one position was in need of a salary adjustment. 37 Tonya Walton said there are monies in non-departmental for this and not in his budget. 38 39 Health Department, Pg. 305 40 Darrell Butts noted that there are some fee schedule change requests on page 502, and 41 there are some non-departmental items on page 357. 42 Darrell Butts said the 2014-15 net change in the general fund was an increase of just 43 under $178,000. He said there has been an increase in grant funds of almost $66,000. He 44 said the main budget driver is the cost of living adjustment and the requested new position for a 45 half time dental office assistant. He said this position will be a swap for a dental hygienist, so 46 there is actually a savings of$43,000 with this. He said there is a request for an increase in 47 one of the remaining dental hygienists hours, which will be an increase of$15,000. He said 48 there will also be a senior full time public health educator who will focus on poverty, and this will 49 be a total County cost of$70,000. He said some of this is start up cost for the work station, so 50 $4,000 of that amount will not all be recurring.