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_ <br /> ORANGE COUNTY 209 <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Item No. 6:/? <br /> Meeting Date: JANUARY 6, 1986 <br /> SUBJECT: SPECIAL ASSESSMENT TO SAVE GENERAL REVENUE SHARING <br /> DEPARTMENT: COUNTY MANAGER PUBLIC HEARING: Yes &No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: MANAGER'S <br /> OFFICE? X501 <br /> NONE TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider a request from NACo for a $692 special assessment <br /> to be used in the effort to save the federal General Revenue <br /> Sharing program. <br /> NEED: Since enacted in 1972, General Revenue Sharing has enabled <br /> counties and other local governments to assume an increasing <br /> share of responsibilities for the federal government. General <br /> Revenue Sharing has virtually no strings attached and gives <br /> local governments the flexibility to spend the allocation in <br /> response to local needs. This flexibility is important because <br /> so much money in county budgets is restricted for services <br /> counties are required to provide in response to federal and <br /> state mandates. <br /> Many, of these services were created in response to national <br /> objectives as defined by the federal government. Now? however? <br /> as Congress and the administration respond to pressure to elimi- <br /> nate the federal deficit? General Revenue Sharing has been <br /> targeted to be abolished after the close of the 1986 federal <br /> fiscal year. This will mean a loss of nearly $4.6 billion to <br /> local governments. <br /> IMPACT: Orange County's General Revenue Sharing allocation in 1984-85 <br /> was nearly $700,000. Although the allocation for 1985-86 is not <br /> yet clear? we have budgeted $643,551 for this fiscal year. The <br /> elimination of the General Revenue Sharing program would mean a <br /> loss', of revenue equivalent to more than .03 on the property tax <br /> rate based on our 1985-85 allocation. <br /> This', special assessment of $692 would require a budget amend- <br /> ment. This could come out of the Commissioner's Contingency <br /> account, which has a balance of $32?039 before this amendment. <br /> RECOMMENDATION(S) : <br /> As the Board decides. <br />