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VOTE: Ayes, 3 (Commissioner Dorosin, Commissioner Burroughs, and Commissioner Rich); Nays, 4 (Commissioner Jacobs, Commissioner Price, Chair McKee, and Commissioner Pelissier) Motion fails Commissioner Price said the Center for Home Ownership asked for $45,000 and she suggested $22,000. A motion was made by Commissioner Price, seconded by Commissioner Burroughs to enter into a contract with the Center for Home Ownership for $22,000. VOTE: Ayes, 5 (Chair McKee, Commissioner Price, Commissioner Burroughs, Commissioner Pelissier, Commissioner Jacobs); Nayes, 2 (Commissioner Rich and Commissioner Dorosin) Commissioner Price/Chair McKee Voices Together $3000 Commissioner Price OCIM Samaritan Relief $7585 Commissioner Burroughs Communities in Schools (CIS) $12,000 Commissioner Rich Art Therapy Institute $1000 A motion was made by Commissioner Price, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to extend capacity to serve .5 FTE, in the amount of$39,575, for a practitioner for the Health Department to address men 18 and over, beyond the issue of communicable diseases. Commissioner Burroughs said this is a conversation that the Board of Health should have first. Bonnie Hammersley said there was a request from the Board of Health to add a position and a half, and the need was for the entire request, not just the half time position. Commissioner Pelissier said the Board really does need to understand the implication of this issue. She said there needs to be a conversation about people just coming into the health department for physicals before she is willing to support the motion. Chair McKee said he would have been more comfortable if this conversation had taken place with the Director of the Health Department, Dr. Colleen Bridger. VOTE: Ayes, 3 (Commissioner Jacobs, Commissioner Dorosin, Commissioner Price); Nayes, 4 (Commissioner Burroughs, Commissioner Pelissier, Chair McKee, and Commissioner Rich) Motion failed. • Funding for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools Commissioner Burroughs said she was not just elected to support the schools or just one school system but rather she is focused on the children the schools serve. She said that one district states a need of$800,000, in order to not cut positions. She said the other district may need to cut positions due to State mandates regarding salary and benefits. She said if the Board is unable to provide the schools the necessary $1.4 million, students will be impacted. She said there have been cuts over the past 6 years that total $10 million. Commissioner Burroughs said the schools in Orange County are working very hard to support their students and there is still great need. She said concerns have been raised that the schools are receiving close to 50 percent of the County's budget. She said 50 percent is a round number but it is arbitrary and does not address need which should be the focus. She thinks that meeting the needs is important and takes money and she would support a tax