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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No ViDC--G <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 29, 1993 <br /> SUBJECT: Contingency Appropriation for Tornado Expenses <br /> DEPARTMENT Budget PUBLIC HEARING YES NO x <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) INFORMATION CONTACT <br /> Budget Amendment Sally Kost, ext 2151 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBER <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Mebane 227-2031 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider an appropriation from the contingency account to <br /> cover expenses incurred during response to the November 1992 tornado. <br /> BACKGROUND: A number of County departments incurred unusual and <br /> unanticipated expenses during response to and clean up after the <br /> November 1992 tornado in Hillsborough. At that time, staff indicated <br /> that they would attempt to absorb these expenses within the existing <br /> 1992-93 departmental budgets, but that it might be necessary to seek an <br /> end-of-the-year budget amendment to provide additional funds for some <br /> departments. While most departments have been able to absorb the <br /> unexpected costs in their budgets, the two departments with the largest <br /> tornado expenses, the Sheriff' s Department and Emergency Management, do <br /> not have sufficient flexibility in their 1992-93 budgets to do so. <br /> Staff recommends that the Board consider appropriating $51,000 from <br /> contingency - $41,000 for the Sheriff ' s Department and $10, 000 for <br /> Emergency Management - to cover tornado related expenses. <br /> RECOMMENDATION: The Manager recommends that the Board approve the <br /> attached budget ordinance amendment approving $51,000 in contingency <br /> funds for tornado expenses. <br />