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5 1 Paul Laughton said the County has not changed the cap of how many charter school 2 students have been funded since 2000 or 2001. He said this part of the budget is a way of 3 raising the cap and looking at funding the entire Charter School enrollment, over the next two 4 years. 5 Commissioner Price asked if the State required the County to fund all the students. 6 Paul Laughton said the school systems are required to pay for the operational costs for 7 the charter school students although capital costs do not have to be covered. 8 Commissioner Burroughs said the money follows the students through the per-pupil 9 amounts and the money in question makes whole the fixed costs. 10 Bonnie Hammersley said the recommendation recognizes there is a cap and making the 11 cap reflect the actual number of students over a two year period. She said the projected DPI 12 for 2015-2016 is a reduction and the County funds based on projections. 13 Commissioner Dorosin asked if there was a reason for the existence of the cap given 14 that every student must still be paid for. 15 Commissioner Jacobs said he does not remember the reasoning for the cap. 16 Paul Laughton said he does not remember either. 17 Bonnie Hammersley said her staff would do some research. 18 Commissioner Jacobs said this money supplants what the schools systems would have 19 to pay for these charter school students. 20 Commissioner Rich said she would like to know the history and asked what is the 21 current cap for Orange County Schools (OCS). 22 Paul Laughton said the cap for OCS is 254 students. 23 Commissioner Rich said she finds the cap to be ridiculous and it should be eliminated. 24 Commissioner Pelissier said even when there is not a cap there may still be a shortfall 25 due to not knowing in May how many students there may be in the fall. 26 Commissioner Rich asked if all the students in Orange County are accounted for, 27 whether in public or charter schools. 28 Bonnie Hammersley said the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) does include 29 charter school students. 30 Commissioner Jacobs said this is a boon to both school systems because they are 31 getting money from the County over and beyond the per pupil amount. He said Orange County 32 is being more generous to the school systems to cover these students that would require 33 funding anyway. 34 Commissioner Burroughs said she is looking forward to hearing from the schools on this 35 proposed funding as the process moves forward. 36 Commissioner Dorosin said there was a request made previously by OCS to raise the 37 school board salaries making them comparable to CHCCS. He asked if this request is in the 38 budget. 39 Bonnie Hammersley said no. 40 Commissioner Dorosin said he is going to suggest this request going forward. 41 Chair McKee asked John Roberts if the setting of the school board's salaries is a 42 prerogative of the BOCC. 43 John Roberts said the BOCC can set the salaries of school boards but does not have to. 44 He said if the Board chooses not to, then the schools boards can set the salaries themselves. 45 Commissioner Jacobs suggested getting a salary study of all elected officials across 46 Orange County. 47 Bonnie Hammersley continued with her PowerPoint presentation: 48 49 Recommended School funding 50 • Durham Technical College