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APPROVED RECOMIMED <br /> BUDGET BUDGET PERCENT <br /> x982-83 1983-84 CHANGE <br /> JOCCA 35,903 37;124 +3.4% <br /> Museum - 4,000 +100.0% <br /> Shelter Home 82,729 79,404 -4.0% <br /> Phillips Project 7,854 5,618 --28.5% <br /> Janus House 5,000 6,500 +30.0% <br /> Tree House 3,140 6,000 +91.1% <br /> Rape Crisis 10,500 10,500 -- <br /> Battered Women 5,500 5,500 - <br /> Woments Health 14,000 14,000 - <br /> Forest Service 22,500 23,400 +4.0% <br /> Medical Examiner 1(),000 10,000_ - <br /> Schools. 668,408 70Z L0 0 +4.9% <br /> Current Exp.-Chapel. Hill 2,900,109 3,004,749 +3.6% <br /> Current Exp.-Orange 2,857,855 2,971,584 +4.0% <br /> A summary of the recommended budget according to organizational groupings would show County operating <br /> departments increased 2.8%; school current expense funds increased 4.0% and other agencies increased 4.9%. <br /> Also in summary, total requested funds from all departments and agencies was $21,340,458 which would take a <br /> 71#,, tax rate per $100 of value (16q increase) to support versus the present rate of 55'. <br /> Several overall issues have been taken into account in developing the recommended budget. <br /> 1. Personnel. Pay Plan <br /> After a year of holding the line on employee salaries, consideration was given to what increase should <br /> be proposed for cast-of--living stability. Recent months have shown lowered inflation, even brief deflation. <br /> However, when wage and prices -are tracked over a longer span one sees the shifts that have been taking place. <br /> Since 1978 there has been a 57.1% increase in the consumer price index. During the same period the cost--of- <br /> living adjustment for County employees has been 23.5%, or less than half of the CPI. <br /> This budget includes a 5% cost-of--living adjustment to salaries for County employees and all locally <br /> paid personnel of the two school systems. It is my feeling the County should do this even if the State cannot <br /> match the increase for State-funded positions clue to State fiscal problems. There have been years where the <br /> State has made across-the-board increases and used automatic step advancements for its employees, which could <br /> not be followed by Orange County. This can be a catch year. <br /> -3- <br />