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I. were being funded less recently in proportion to previous years. <br /> • Ms. Insko agreed with that statement but added that the County had had population <br /> . growth and bond funds coming in while it was completing some of its own capital <br /> . projects; that is no longer the case: Ms. Insko asked, rather, "at what point do <br /> . we return" to the previous funding level? <br /> • Commissioner Whitted said that some of the County's projects, the jail for example, <br /> . had taken considerably longer to complete than anticipated while the schools' projected <br /> .five year capital projects had taken only two years to finish. The County is still <br /> completing projects identified several years earlier. Commissioner Whitted cited <br /> • three ways to get increased funds: 1) increase property tax; 2) ask fora bond issue; <br /> . 3) support Senator Royall 's bill. He reminded the Boards that the voters had soundly <br /> ,defeated the 1979 bond issue. <br /> ,. Ms, Insko said the Boards of Education needed to pressure the State to increase <br /> ;. its current expense funding so that counties could increase capital funding. Ms. Carolyn <br /> , Freeman, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools Finance Officer, said there were items in their <br /> ▪ capital projects that didn't appear ten years ago; she cited,examples such as roof <br /> , replacement (the schools were new ten years ago) and site development. <br /> Commissioner Whitted said the schools were experiencing what the County had <br /> . experienced prior to 1976; that is, delaying capital projects in order to fund other <br /> needs. The County did not have an on-going capital projects fund prior to 1976. <br /> ..He continued saying that some assumptions and known quantities for next year were: <br /> . 1) assume no tax increase; 2) debt service $900,000. Commissioner Whitted agreed v <br /> ,with Mr. Caldwell 's suggestion of a small committee to work up school 's funding for <br /> ,this next fiscal year. Responding to Mr. Faribault's concern regarding long term <br /> . capital funding, Mr. Whitted said the suggested committee could work on that issue <br /> also; new school construction, he said, would necessitate a bond issue. Mr. <br /> . Caldwell said that knowing a realistic amount that the schools could expect frown the <br /> L. County would facilitate the Ards wnricinp ,n a rP. crtnah;i' hitria , <br /> ,-. Mr. Kennedy said the Orange County Board of Education was going to continue to <br /> 3. identify needs and ask for funding of those needs. The needs of the Orange County <br /> .schools are greater, he said. Mr. Haithcock said due to growth expanded facilities <br /> 5.would be needed. <br /> 6. Mr. Caldwell moved, seconded by Ms. Thornton, that the administrative heads of <br /> 7.both Boards of Education, with their Finance Officers and the County Manager with his <br /> 9.7. <br /> 0. <br />