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MEMORANDLJM To: County Manager and Orange County Board of Commissioners From: Alice Gordon Subject: Orange County Board of Commissioners 1991 Goals Date: January 7, 1991 At the Annual Board of Commissioners' Goal Planning Retreat on December 8 1 presented several goals which I believe were adopted by consensus. BUDGET Increase efforts to 2romote efficiency-and sayinffl in OraqM County vernmental erations A. Identify ositive incentives for saving§ in gning prgKams funded in the continuation b -is of county departments and also outside units receivina county fundi . All units should be encouraged to phase out older, less productive programs and to identify more effective methods of delivering services_ Mote: My second suggestion, that the county consider the use of zero based buduating in some or all departments during the next fiscal year, was not adopted. Adopting the suggestion requires more effort because it involves starting each unit's budget at zero and evaluating all the programs to see if they should receive funding. GROWTH MANAGEMENT Promote effective long range olanning com ilin information which gives an overall r tine on armth and develooment. A. Provide an Infrastructure Im act Statement for each new develolifflent in the county's 'urisdiction Each subdivision or other development utilizes some of the capacity of the infrastructure, e.g. roads, parks and recreation, and schools. For each development, the staff would produce an Infrastructure Impact Statement which would specify the extent to which a given development utilizes some of this infrastructure capacity. B. W-06-with Ch —Hill . Carrb and-the Chapel HilL-Q@rrboro school V—Stomiurovido School Capacity I oact Statement for the Chapel Hill- Carrboro schools. The staff would work with these jurisdictions to obtain relevant information for new developments in the city school district so that the county can track the capacity utilization in that district. C. Provide a Fiscal impact Statement for each development in the caun 's Jurisdiction. For each new development, the staff would produce a Fiscal Impact Statement which specifies the anticipated tax revenues projected for a development as well as the projected cost of services and capital improvements to be required by the development.