Agenda - 02-02-1987 - Special Mtg.

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C 412 WOsl Franklin Street 9 %Jra--nge,,C ount . . es Chapel Hill,N.C.27514 Wednesday,,June 10.1987 Telephone 967-8581 118 South Churton Street Hillsborough,N.C.27278 0 Comicsl2 ❑Obituarles74 Classified/5 Telephone 732-5325 )h4414 niff 't AiD Thompson Respo- Cri nds' To . ■ mnmmmw� f Budget P tc! Herald sms MIKE aWcQUEEN equalize ize funding of thettwo s hoot sys- school district,the Chapel Hitl Carr. rO P o s a l He Chapel Hilt bureau a ro ager's budget came out May 29 art a fill-terns. ystem gets in excess of$3 mil- ure needed to maintain Programa at make o itical It about Thompson meanwhile,said in an in Corny schoolsystem Butta the askrforee -asked orent level.The coon Thompson said it fs not his job to CHAPEL HILL—prangs Count teh- that equal funding is difficult to studying merger of the two systems ttyy 1 equitable County achieve and is an issue that the commis- recommended last year that the systems city schools asked for$92,842 o schoala fundl g of the two school systems,or bo- Manager Ken Thompson has responded sinners,not the count mono er,should an the ausesand in a private,five page memo to criticism $4,361,122 offered by the manager• The Pay supplements of his$30.9 million budget proposal by decide. . y g get equal amonts of money, "Those are political decisions,"he Shirley Marshall, chairman of the Ms.Marshall said the memo she sent .five-yeaaracapital plan,which came out a day k�hatlhe agrfeed with Ms. yI �than r Orange County commissioners. public Frida She week after the budget did not include Is t ..The board has a out would be made P Thompson said in an interview is the time for them to assume that Toes- role in this.This declined to comment Tuesday on specific fundin regomnnendatt`onsfnr w incipl ,but t e reality arshaIl in role.,, The memo,obtained through Commis- Thampson's response,Saying, g principle,bu#the reality of the situation in sinner Don WJllhoit,was sent to the really interested o getting into a t t for $3 Right now we don't e all khe big Thompson said of Thompson said he had tried and failed commissioners as Thompson's reply to tat with the press and the manager "Ideally that wool^d be the case," to get the two school staffs together to to nine points Ms.Marshall made in an g poky issues together,' she said."We . ing agreement on ragroam fundin discuss equal funding, p p discuss about the funding 'n She said that thrd w school systems' budget process is p toff reach- g,support staffs, article published in the Chapel Hilt ahead of time."The fact is,however,the pay supplements as well as sharing ac- NervsPoPer last week, issues and what she sees as the man- requests for increased supplemental a e cess to their courses. It responds to three paints Ms. agMsMarshalt said Thompson s budget very a competitive one. All effort to get the..,staffs to- cyguidance. bonuses for experienced employees"is a others." take more time than gether was undo Marshall made in a memo she wrote to g ry good issue over whip.to move to Thompson said the difference in the unsuccessful the commissioners,the city and county pF ns ort how the fundin a of tthe two was.Marshall also said she had hoped schools expecting Thompson said the It can't be done gg p '�� continuation budgets stems from the issue is a complex one."It can't be Bane school boards and Thompson. school systems could be made a ual. hurriedly,in an Ms.Marshall has taken Thompson to Because of a special tax fo 4 he ekt the two school staffs and the county schools expec while the coon ner'�,he said. ",� kind of cursory man- g e th or increases is that can be easily answered They Library staff would have agreed before the man- decreases. q They are ty expects not uestions that can be wholly an, Set swered by a manager•" Ta Leo I p��o�� _ pen m � Ian a Am n August Totals $5005. MIKE NlcOItEE ects concerns possible arrin..ti,.