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~ — `��n��'� i ' Commissioner Whitted told the School Board that the Commissioners have a number of mandated services to provide, not just education; that schools are only one of the County's many responsibilities and that the Countys abilities to meet increasing needs was "going to decrease as time goes on." Commissioner Whitted continued: The point that I'm trying to make here is that we did very carefully consider and we had a good deal of discussion with members of the Orange County school unit to try to under- stand what the needs were; to try to look at our resources and to try to provide reasonable appropriations to address those needs. Now admittedly we did not fund completely your request. I think that given the size of that request, given the kinds of restraints that we have on our revenue, I don't think that there were very many people who felt that that was a real possibility from day one that we would be able to meet the total needs. We do, on an on-going basis, try to understand the needs of all the agencies and departments that we fund. We do not just do it on a one time basis. There were two very J that were presented to us by the Orange County Schools. We dealt with at considerable length to try to understand. The one was renovation of A.L. Stanback School and I believe, that there is, as we discussed it, we give you a lump sum figure and you, your Board deades which facilities get funded. But as we tried to understand it we considered very carefully the request from A.L. Stanback and tried to provide adequate funding to do those things that were requested this year. As far as the roof is concerned, I don't think there's any question in anybody's mind on this Board that there is a real need to go in and do something to that facility. Now, whether you do it all in one year or whether you do it, in stages, again is going to be up to your Board. Again, in trying to understand, in trying to allocate the resources that we had available to us, I feel that we did a good faith effort, and a reasonable effort in trying to address that need. You presented us with a total figure of 00,000 to do the complete job of building up that roof and replacement. The one building that, as I understand it, as I remember it from our discussions, that is in considerable distress, is the gymnasium or the 200 building. You had an estimate of $165°000, is that correct, to do that building. Now, I believe that out of the $476,250 that this, that if your Board chooses to do that 200 building, as was ) recommended by your consultant, of $165,000, that there is adequate funding to do that. Now, admittedly, I thing, it would be difficult to go in and do the whole $300^000 job; but again, we've provided the funding that we felt we could from our resources, to begin that project. Now, as I understand what the provisions of the Statute that we are meeting today is, if there has been adequate money provided to support a system of free education. Now, are youY It's the School Board's position that you do not have adequate funding to support a system of free educat'nn in Orange County? Mr. Compton: "No, we do not." He continued by saying the need for capital funding had increased over the years and were accumulating each year that the Commissioners underfunded capital appropriations. Mr. Compton cited the example of the Orange County Baseball team which won its conference