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• . . 1.---i'l <br /> , <br /> . . <br /> ... , <br /> CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT . . <br /> ORANGE'COUNTY <br /> 103 EAST KING STREET—ROOM 201 <br /> • HILLSSOROUGH. NORTH CAROLINA 27276 <br /> CHAPEL HILL 957.9251 (919) 732-9181. EXT. 485 <br /> sse-4501 • (919) 732-9361. ExT. 495 <br /> BURLINGTON/MEBANE 227-2031 <br /> 227.2032 <br /> DURHAM 6E4E4.7331 • <br /> 688.7333 . <br /> • The Orange County Child Support Enforcement Office attempts to establish <br /> paternity and support payments for any Orange County child whose parents <br /> request our services. , <br /> . . <br /> 0 sts of one Secretary, a Child Support Officer who conducts <br /> the initial in - iews to establish paternity and support and the Director <br /> who initiates con - t of court actions as needed for enforcement of support <br /> payments. • <br /> , <br /> Our caseload has grown from 11 . to 1000 since 1980 due to the increased <br /> numbers of illegitimate births and divorces, the recent national publicity <br /> and Federal Legislation concerning child support. We have met this in- <br /> , creased workload without staff increases due to professional case manage- <br /> ment and our accounting automation. <br /> • <br /> We are well on our .way to meeting our 1984-85 objective of collecting . <br /> • $220.000.00 in child support. 'Through December, 1984, we had-collected <br /> , . over $150.000.00. We also are rapidly closing in on total automation of our i <br /> ' accounting and we hope to have the clerk of court automated by the end of <br /> this budget year. - <br /> ! <br /> We anticipate further reduction of Federal Financial Participation (FFP) in , <br /> 1985-86 and continuing growth of the number of non-welfare cases. Since <br /> 1980 the child support program has operated from 100% Federal funds; i.e. <br /> not one penny of the Orange County tax dollar has been expended on this <br /> program. Our financial performance in 1985-86 depends a great deal on how ' <br /> , <br /> ,-' the State of North Carolina chooses to pass on to the counties the incentive <br /> we receive from collections. If they base the pass-through on individual. <br /> county performance we are in great shape, as we rank in the top 10 counties <br /> in the State in 4 of 8 measures of cost effectiveness and in the top 20 <br /> I : in 6 of these 8 measures. <br /> ,.•' • <br />