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ORANGE COUNTY 197879 U Budget Highlights June 13, 1978 t Budget for fiscal year 1978-79 recommended by the County Manager, A: She Orange County at existing service levels. The proposes a continuationlof current operations generally has made prior primary areas of expansion are, first, those areas for which the County communications articular y in tax collections, animal protection, emergency will re- commitments, p Social and agency support for uman services and, second, County ceive a major portion o the funding from while providing improved services Services and Child Supp rt Enforcement. The first group, also has a considerable impact on reducing costs for the County's municipalitie, County-wide, PERSONNEL O e is an equiv lent of six full- ed to the dget. These are Z l/Z 1 her ort Enforcement, 2 half-year positions in Emrngeenc in Social Services, any half in C i1d Supp funded through a Federal progra Communications and one clerical employee in the Recre rentlyepunded t. u addition, the original Budget re ommendatiAn, fig► as t as� ians. {C T have been reco ended for conversion to f - my --o--• For all County em loyees there is a proposed cost icefIndexr,gthecprimaryfindex used for less than the 19x7 increase (6.8%) in the Consumer true in Orange County, determining cost of living. The change in that indeionalcratesuholdl }true i has exceeded dete 9 This means that if these nat an annual rate of 10%. power of their salaries eves employees will actually have a decrease i e effective buying p with the 6% increase. PROGRAM EXPENDIIURES ro ram expenditures, the raCharty#1 The General Fund Budget includes 31 ,261 853 n p g $8,478,400) in the human services area, paicularly or schools x$4,617,540) • and Table # 1 show the categories of program CAPITAL EXPENDITURES �. _e. 950 000 or capital building and renavat�on of the Old ;ady The Budget inelu es , Brown School and the ail . 1 ,535,000 of the total is carried from debt�prev previously incurr� Additionally $775,00 is included for debt service that is to repay plus interest. These items are included in the transfers of Chart # l and fable # 1 since they will be transfe red to other funds for expenditure. (/ RESQ� f1R es. Fc The resources n�eessary to fund this BudiitemsetransferreditoitheaCountyngFrom Ott the first time, intergovernmental revenues, those These include Social Services revenues, governments, have de lined in actual dollars. Intangibles Tax, ABC revenues, and other Sand Federal Governmentscfor andatingeprograms ei clining while requirements from the State and increasing at the sa time dema ds from the citizens of Orange fo a�itianal ser continue to increase. �W ``�""' 'r°`p �"�` its The primary so rce of revenue that the CouyAtherta�reastcan only own maderup�from sth property tax. Consequently declining revenues source. The County is limited by State laws as to what kinds of revenue it has available fizp P-1 '4511-C A.41