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6 1 She said staff can work on it during the summer and can bring something back to the first 2 Board of County Commissioners meeting in September, if necessary. 3 Chair McKee asked if needs could be addressed with budget amendments in the fall. 4 Bonnie Hammersley said yes. 5 Commissioner Rich said if budget amendments were necessary, from where would the 6 Board pull the funds. 7 Bonnie Hammersley said the needs would be evaluated going forward and there are 8 pockets of funding available. 9 Commissioner Rich said to inform the outside agencies that requested additional 10 funding, due to United Way cuts, that there may be amendments in the fall. 11 Commissioner Jacobs agreed with Commissioner Rich. 12 Commissioner Jacobs said many years the County ends up with a 20-22 percent fund 13 balance after budgets are approved. He asked if it is a known certainty that the County is at 17 14 percent this year. 15 Bonnie Hammersley said currently there is some uncertainty as to what the projections 16 will be, since the County has used significant amounts of the fund balances in the past. She 17 said this will be monitored closely going forward. 18 Commissioner Burroughs said she supports a plan that allows the Board to address 19 these cuts in September. She said the three agencies facing cuts are part of the Family 20 Success Alliance (FSA) Consortium. 21 Bonnie Hammersley said she would respond back to the affected outside agencies that 22 have reached out to the County. 23 Bonnie Hammersley referred to the gold paper at the Commissioners' places. She 24 reminded the Board of a request by the Interim Superintendent of the Orange County Schools 25 (OCS), asking that their Board of Education (BOE) have the same compensation as the BOE 26 for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS). She said the front side of the gold sheet 27 shows comparable counties within the State, and the reverse side shows the recommended 28 budget ordinance language to fix the OCS compensation as the same for CHCCS. 29 Commissioner Burroughs said CHCCS is paid twice a year. 30 Commissioner Dorosin said he heartily supported this proposed change. 31 Chair McKee said this compensation is paid out of OCS's monies. 32 33 A motion was made by Commissioner Dorosin, seconded by Commissioner Burroughs 34 for the Board of Board of County Commissioners to fix the compensation for members of the 35 OCS Board of Education such as that it is the same for the members of the CHCCS Board of 36 Education; resulting increase to be paid from the approved County appropriation for Orange 37 County Schools. 38 39 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 40 41 Bonnie Hammersley referred to the green sheet that shows County Commissioner 42 compensation and peer comparisons in the same counties as used for BOE comparisons. She 43 said the towns and cities in Orange County are also included. She said options for 44 consideration are located at the bottom of the page, should the Board choose to look at 45 changes to the current compensation. 46 Chair McKee said he and the Manager have discussed this topic at length. He said the 47 Board of County Commissioners has only had increases with general cost of living allowances 48 and the topic of increases has not been discussed for at least 20 or 30 years. He said it is time 49 to have a discussion, and noted the options provided by the Manager. He said this topic should 50 be reviewed on an annual basis by the Board. He said option 2 suggests a per diem rate for