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Bonnie Hammersley said there was discussion on Tuesday night regarding the United Way funding and she asked staff for an inventory list of what the United Way is funding. She said it has been reported to her that the funding changes would not take effect until September. She said staff can work on it during the summer and can bring something back to the first Board of County Commissioners meeting in September, if necessary. Chair McKee asked if needs could be addressed with budget amendments in the fall. Bonnie Hammersley said yes. Commissioner Rich said if budget amendments were necessary, from where would the Board pull the funds. Bonnie Hammersley said the needs would be evaluated going forward and there are pockets of funding available. Commissioner Rich said to inform the outside agencies that requested additional funding, due to United Way cuts, that there may be amendments in the fall. Commissioner Jacobs agreed with Commissioner Rich. Commissioner Jacobs said many years the County ends up with a 20-22 percent fund balance after budgets are approved. He asked if it is a known certainty that the County is at 17 percent this year. Bonnie Hammersley said currently there is some uncertainty as to what the projections will be, since the County has used significant amounts of the fund balances in the past. She said this will be monitored closely going forward. Commissioner Burroughs said she supports a plan that allows the Board to address these cuts in September. She said the three agencies facing cuts are part of the Family Success Alliance (FSA) Consortium. Bonnie Hammersley said she would respond back to the affected outside agencies that have reached out to the County. Bonnie Hammersley referred to the gold paper at the Commissioners' places. She reminded the Board of a request by the Interim Superintendent of the Orange County Schools (OCS), asking that their Board of Education (BOE) have the same compensation as the BOE for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS). She said the front side of the gold sheet shows comparable counties within the State, and the reverse side shows the recommended budget ordinance language to fix the OCS compensation as the same for CHCCS. Commissioner Burroughs said CHCCS is paid twice a year. Commissioner Dorosin said he heartily supported this proposed change. Chair McKee said this compensation is paid out of OCS's monies. A motion was made by Commissioner Dorosin, seconded by Commissioner Burroughs for the Board of Board of County Commissioners to fix the compensation for members of the OCS Board of Education such as that it is the same for the members of the CHCCS Board of Education; resulting increase to be paid from the approved County appropriation for Orange County Schools. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Bonnie Hammersley referred to the green sheet that shows County Commissioner compensation and peer comparisons in the same counties as used for BOE comparisons. She said the towns and cities in Orange County are also included. She said options for consideration are located at the bottom of the page, should the Board choose to look at changes to the current compensation. Chair McKee said he and the Manager have discussed this topic at length. He said the Board of County Commissioners has only had increases with general cost of living allowances