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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 28, 2015 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 1 and 2 <br />SUBJECT: Presentation of Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools <br />Boards of Education Approved FY 2015 -16 Operating and Capital Budgets <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager and Finance PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />and Administrative Services <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />A. Orange County Schools Board of <br />Education FY2015 -16 Budget <br />Request <br />B. Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools <br />Board of Education FY2015 -16 <br />Budget Request <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Bonnie Hammersley, (919) 245 -2300 <br />Paul Laughton, (919) 245 -2152 <br />Del Burns, (919) 732 -8126 <br />Tom Forcella, (919) 967 -8211 <br />PURPOSE: To receive the Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools <br />Boards of Education approved FY2015 -16 operating and capital budget requests. <br />BACKGROUND: The Board of County Commissioners established a funding target for schools <br />in previous years of 48.1% of County General Fund revenues. The target is exclusive of the <br />County's share of Durham Technical Community College funding and is consistent with the <br />school funding target endorsed by Commissioners in May 2000. The following school related <br />components are included in calculation of the target percentage: <br />Local Current Expense - supplements State and Federal funds received by each district for <br />the day -to -day operation of schools. Examples of expenses paid from these funds include <br />salaries and benefits for locally paid teachers and utilities. Counties having more than one <br />school administrative unit, as is the case in Orange County, are required to provide equal per <br />pupil appropriations to each system. The funding level, however, is discretionary and varies <br />from county to county. Current Expense funding of $72,147,134 was approved in FY 2014 -15. <br />Recurring Capital - pays for facility improvements, equipment, furnishings, and vehicle and bus <br />purchases. State statutes mandate counties to fund recurring capital; however, the amount of <br />money counties allocate to this function is discretionary and varies from county to county. Equal <br />per pupil allocations required by law for current expense appropriations are not applicable to <br />this category of local school funding. <br />