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Commissioner Burroughs said in order for CHCCS to do this, it would have to come through the budget process. Commissioner Rich said the CHCCS are an extension of the County, since both school systems receive almost half of the tax dollars. She said it is a problem to create a policy that is not being followed by the inside circle. Commissioner Burroughs said the CHCCS have been contracting out more over the past several years. She said, in order to deal with the remaining employees and look at all of the contracting that they do, it would be a multi-million dollar budget question. She said it could be the right thing to ask them to think about this, but it is a large scale discussion. Commissioner Rich said the schools were asked to provide this information during the collaboration meeting, and Orange County provided this, but no letter or statement has been received from CHCCS. Chair McKee said he will follow up on this. Commissioner Jacobs said he has tried to push for doing this on contracts for years. He said he has asked for follow up on how other jurisdictions deal with these issues. He noted that no providers of home care for the elderly come close to paying a living wage for that service. He questioned what the policy would be in a case like this, and he said it is important to anticipate the difficulties of a potential policy. He said other jurisdictions have already dealt with these issues and could provide advice. Chair McKee said he is hearing that the Board would like to see answers for the questions on page two of their abstract. He said he will follow up with the chair of the Chapel Hill Board of Education regarding the living wage question. He said his understanding is that Orange County Schools' movement on the living wage is for its employees, but he is not sure if this applies to their contract providers. Chair McKee suggested this item should be scheduled for another work session to provide time for the answers to be provided. Greg Wilder said this could possibly be added to the April 9th work session. Commissioner Pelissier asked if there have been any conversations with the Sheriff's department. Bonnie Hammersley said she will follow up on this. Commissioner porosin asked if this item can be discussed at a regular meeting, as soon as it can be added. Bonnie Hammersley said staff will bring it back as soon as possible. Commissioner McKee said this can come back to a regular meeting, and the Board can decide to vote or not vote at that time. 2. Discussion of Process for the Public to Place an Item on a Reqular Board Meetinq Aqenda Chair McKee said that the Board did not get to this item at the recent retreat, although there was a discussion of bringing petitions from the Board. He said he heard that if the petition was an item that had a quick answer, then the manager or staff inember could address it on the same night. He said if it was a regular petition item or decision item that would require study, the item would go through standard Chair/Vice-Chair agenda review and then brought back at a later date. Commissioner Price clarified that this is not regarding public petitions. Chair McKee said no. He is just trying to tie up the discussion that was started regarding petitions by Board members.