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ORANGE COUNTY Action Agenda BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Item No. -/Y ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: January 4, 1993 SUBJECT: BUDGET ORDINANCE AMENDMENT #5 DEPARTMENT Budget PUBLIC HEARING: YES NO_X_ ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Proposed Budget Amendments Proposed Capital Project Budget Office, Extension 2150 Ordinances TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Letter of Request from Hillsborough 732-8181 New Hope Fire Department Proposed Grant Project Chapel Hill 968-4501 Ordinances Mebane 227-2031 Durham 688-7331 PURPOSE: To approve proposed budget ordinance amendments, capital project ordinances and grant project ordinances. BACKGROUND: 1. The Orange County Health Department has received additional State funds for its Health Promotion efforts. The attached budget amendment(block#1, page 2)will appropriate these funds, totalling $3,914, to the Health Department's Promotion program budget. No County match is required. 2. A claim has been settled in the Department of Social Services. The attached budget amendment(block#2, page 2) transfers $5,000 from Contingency to the Department of Social Services for this purpose. 3. The Board of Directors of the New Hope Fire Department has requested that the Board of County Commissioners appropriate-a portion of their fund balance. These funds will be used to construct a training room at its #2 station. This amendment will appropriate $26,500 of this department's $48,695 total fund balance(as of June 30, 1992), leaving a balance of$22,195. The attached budget amendment(block#3, page 2) appropriates $26,500 fund balance to the New Hope Fire Department. 4. The Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools have requested to transfer$375,000 from their future projects reserve account into the Chapel Hill High School Phase II project. These funds were "borrowed" from the high school project to continue planning for the new middle school. With the passage of the bond referendum, these funds can now be reallocated to the appropriate capital project. The attached capital project ordinances (pages 4 through 6) transfers $375,000 from the Future Project Reserve Project to the Chapel Hill High School (Phase II) capital project. 5. The Orange County Community Development program has received a $250,000 block grant from the North Carolina Department of Economic and Community Development(ECD) to assist the Hillsborough Affordable Housing Corporation (HAHC)with the construction of a 35 rental unit development known as Whitted Forest. The attached grant project ordinance on page 7 will appropriate these funds. No County match is required. 6. Orange County Housing and Community Development has received notification that Section 8 funds for the i. Existing Certificate Program have been renewed. These funds total$142,618 and no County match is required. The attached grant project ordinance on page 8 will appropriate these funds to the Section 8 program. RECOMMENDATION The Manager recommends that the Board of Commissioners adopt the proposed Budget Ordinance Amendments and Capital Project Ordinances.