Agenda - 09-06-2016 - 6-a - Minutes

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5 1 - Lilac: amendments that came in for additional revenue 2 - Blue: amendments that came in throughout the County, since the last work session. The 3 Manager was able to find funding to fund all of these sets of amendments, and thus do 4 not affect the proposed budget. 5 - Yellow: outside agency amendments 6 - Green: education budget amendments 7 - Salmon: Capital Investment Plan (CIP) amendments 8 - Pink: other funds budget amendment list 9 10 A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Dorosin to 11 fully fund outside agencies recommended for funding in part 1 — (previously funded agencies) 12 with the exception of CIS; if the requested increase is greater than a 50% increase then they 13 will receive 50% increase; (included funds for Food Council - $16,030) and eliminated funds for 14 Housing for New Hope (-$22,500); that they increase funding for the schools by $1.7 million 15 (utilize the available fund balance in excess of the 17% fund policy) with $1 million to come for 16 the plus $700,000 of the $900,000 dollars was above the fund balance (line 1 - $800,000 and 17 line 3- $1 million). 18 19 Amended to $1.8 million - use $800,000 plus $1 million the staff identified from the impact fees. 20 21 Commissioner Burroughs said this motion is a step in the right direction and the school 22 districts asked for over$8 million combined. She said the Manager recommended $2.6 million 23 and this motion still leaves the schools short by about $3.6 million. She said this means that 24 Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) teachers will get their raises, since the School 25 Board has already approved the raises. She said if CHCCS comes up short it will have to cut 26 positions. She said the Orange County Schools (OCS) have not locked in raises and this 27 amount that is short of the request, would have gone to teacher raises, and OCS will probably 28 have to cut positions. She said teachers matter. 29 Chair McKee said as of now it does leave the BOCC $3.6 million short for the schools 30 but the discussion has just begun and there may be options as the process continues tonight. 31 Commissioner Dorosin said he does not think anyone here sees the schools as a 32 bloated bureaucracy. He said he has been talking a lot about changing the County fund 33 balance policy, and he thinks the 17% is too conservative. He suggested taking $1 million out 34 of the fund balance without changing the fund policy at this time and putting it towards schools 35 as well. He said to put the fund balance policy discussion on the fall agenda as early as 36 possible. He proposed this as a friendly amendment. 37 Commissioner Jacobs said to put a motion on the June 21st agenda to make sure this 38 fund balance policy comes back for discussion in the fall. 39 Chair McKee asked if Commissioner Jacobs is asking the motion amendment maker to 40 drop the policy portion of the amendment, with the understanding it will come back on June 21st 41 Commissioner Jacobs said yes. 42 Commissioner Dorosin said that would be acceptable. 43 Commissioner Jacobs said the fund balance policy change in 2011 was part of a 44 strategy to shrink the government. He said this was an internal game played by staff with the 45 Board. He said he is very conservative about spending money but he says there is merit to the 46 point that the BOCC is meant to be doing something with the money contributed by the public's 47 taxes, etc. He said it is good to review the policy especially with what the legislature is doing. 48 Commissioner Jacobs said the Board is now talking about $2.8 million to the schools, 49 which will be the second highest per pupil amount in that last 30 years. He said it is wrong to 50 say that Orange County does not support schools. He said all involved need to do a better job