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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 12, 2007 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~ ~ ~~ <br />SUBJECT: Budget Amendment #13 <br />DEPARTMENT: Budget <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT (S): <br />Attachment 1. Budget as Amended <br />Spreadsheet <br />Attachment 2. Year-To-Date Budget <br />Summary <br />Attachment 3. Information Technology <br />Capital Project Ordinance <br />Attachment 4. Chapel Hill Carrboro City <br />Schools Capital Project <br />Ordinances <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Donna Coffey, (919) 245-2151 <br />PURPOSE: To approve budget, school and county capital project ordinance amendments for <br />fiscal year 2006-07. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Department of Social Services <br />1. The Department of Social Services has received notification from the State of additional <br />funds for the current fiscal year for Child Day Care Subsidies. The department plans to use <br />the additional $150,000 to continue to provide childcare subsidies to low-income families. <br />Currently, there are 810 children and their families who benefit from this program. An <br />additional 137 are on the waiting list. The additional funds will go towards moving children off <br />the waiting list. This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these funds, and brings <br />the budget for this program to $4,436,864 for fiscal year 2006-07. (See Attachment 1, <br />column #1) <br />Governing and Management Non-Departmental <br />2. The 2006-07 approved budget includes $375,000 in anon-departmental health insurance <br />account, which provides for up to a 16.0 percent health insurance rate increase. Effective <br />January 1, 2007, the NCACC Trust renewal rate increase was 1.9 percent. This budget <br />amendment provides for the transfer of $90,648 from the health insurance increase account <br />to individual departments in the General Fund to cover the additional health insurance costs <br />leaving a balance of $284,352. Staff plans to carry these unexpended funds forward into <br />