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TO: BOARD '�L ,�� <br /> FROM: SHIRL AND MOSES iG' �"��'""' 4 <br /> RE: BUDGET REVIEW PROCESS <br /> DATE: 8 MAY 1987 <br /> Commissioners have expressed a wish that we review the budget more <br /> thoroughly this year; we spent our last planning session reviewing how <br /> that might be done. The suggestions derailed here are only suggestions; <br /> we ask your comments as soon as possible because we would like to share <br /> the Board 's plan with the Manager, Department Heads, the press, and the <br /> citizens already preparing their lobbying efforts as soon as possible. <br /> We suggest that we break our review process into two phases. <br /> Phase I: the MARK UP/MARK DOWN phase to be considered without regard <br /> to the passage of the state budget. <br /> Phase II: the decision-making phase that will follow legislative <br /> action on the budget. <br /> Phase I will begin with the receipt of the Manager's budget on 29 May and <br /> will include both work sessions with particular departments and two public <br /> hearings: the scheduled hearing in Hillsborough on 8 June and a public <br /> hearing to be set in Chapel Hill at the conclusion of the work sessions <br /> and in response to the MARK UP/MARK DOWN wish list. <br /> Phase II will begin as soon as possible after the adoption of the state <br /> budget at which time we must decide what we must fund as well as what we <br /> want to fund and can reconcile long term needs or citizen desire with <br /> affordability to the community. <br /> The Manager has not yet reached the stage of budget preparation delineated <br /> in the budget manual for the week of 4 May to 8 May -- meeting with <br /> Department Heads by appointment after each has received a formal budget <br /> package. <br /> We plan to set dates for work sessions at our 1 June meeting except for <br /> those with the School Boards which we will work out on 3 June with Sue and <br /> Lindsey. <br /> We have usually set budget work sessions for 7:30 pm; can some be set for <br /> 4 - 6 pm? <br /> We try to have about an equal number of sessions in southern and northern <br /> Orange. <br /> We suggest that the public, including advocates, speak to the budget at <br /> Public Hearing and that the public not be heard at the work sessions <br /> except for the Chair and/or Vice-Chair of an advisory board or commission <br /> to the department being discussed <br />