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4 1 Commissioner Burroughs saidin order for CHCCS to do this, it would have to come 2 through the budget process. 3 Commissioner Rich saidthe CHCCS arean extension of the County, since bothschool 4 systems receive almost half of the tax dollars. She said it is a problem to create a policy that is 5 not being followed by the inside circle. 6 Commissioner Burroughs said the CHCCS havebeen contracting out more over the 7 past several years. She said, in order to deal with the remaining employees and look at all of 8 the contracting that they do, it would be a multi-million dollar budget question. She said it could 9 bethe right thing to ask them to think about this, but it is a large scale discussion. 10 Commissioner Rich said the schools were asked to provide this information during the 11 collaborationmeeting, and Orange County provided this, but no letter or statement has been 12 received from CHCCS. 13 Chair McKee said he will follow up on this. 14 Commissioner Jacobs said hehas tried to push for doing this on contracts for years. He 15 said he has asked for follow up on how other jurisdictions deal with these issues. He noted that 16 no providers of homecare for the elderlycome close to payinga living wage for that service. 17 He questioned what the policy would be in a case like this, and he said it is important to 18 anticipate the difficulties of a potential policy. He said other jurisdictions have already dealt with 19 these issues and could provide advice. 20 Chair McKee said he is hearing that the Board would like to see answers for the 21 questions on page twoof their abstract. He said he will follow up with the chair of the Chapel 22 Hill Board of Education regarding the living wage question. He said his understanding is that 23 Orange County Schools’ movement on the living wage is for its employees, but he is not sure if 24 this applies to their contract providers. 25 Chair McKee suggested this item should be scheduled for another work session to 26 provide time for the answers to be provided. 27 Greg Wilder said thiscould possibly be added to the April 9thwork session. 28 Commissioner Pelissier asked if there have been any conversations with the Sheriff’s 29 department. 30 Bonnie Hammersley said she will follow up on this. 31 Commissioner Dorosin asked if this item can be discussed at a regular meeting, as soon 32 as it can be added. 33 Bonnie Hammersley said staff will bring it backas soon as possible. 34 Commissioner McKee said this can come back to a regular meeting, and the Board can 35 decide to vote or not vote at that time. 36 37 38 2.Discussion of Process for the Public to Place an Item on a Regular Board Meeting 39 Agenda 40 Chair McKee said that the Board did not get to this item at the recent retreat, although 41 there was a discussion of bringing petitions from the Board. He said he heard that if the petition 42 was an item that had a quick answer, then the manager or staff member could address it on the 43 same night. He said if it was a regular petition item or decision item that would require study, 44 the item would go through standard Chair/Vice-Chairagenda review and then brought back at a 45 later date. 46 Commissioner Price clarified that this is not regarding public petitions. 47 Chair McKee saidno. He is just trying to tie up the discussion that was started regarding 48 petitions by Board members.