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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 24, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. i <br />SUBJECT: Aareement with Robert Seaal CPA Firm for Countv Efficiencv Assessment <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Approved Letter of Agreement <br />Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />Mebane 336 - 227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To authorize the Chair, Manager, and staff to develop agreements, as needed, <br />with the Robert Segal CPA firm for assessment of efficiencies and operational comparisons <br />involving Orange County government and the two school systems. <br />BACKGROUND: As was discussed during the Board's of Commissioners annual planning <br />retreat on January 22, 2005, the County engaged the Robert Segal CPA firm in Fall 2004 to <br />examine County operations for possible revenue enhancements and expenditure reductions. <br />Both school systems have entered into similar agreements with the Segal firm. Segal is <br />reimbursed for their work by retaining a portion of the document savings they obtain on behalf <br />of their clients, as recognized and agreed to by the client. A copy of this signed agreement <br />between the County and Segal is attached. <br />The Board also has expressed interest in having the Segal firm identify other opportunities for <br />operational efficiencies and observations about resource deployment that it may identify during <br />the course of its assessment of County and school operations. This body of work is of interest <br />to the BOCC particularly in the context of the ongoing examination by a UNC School of <br />Education research team regarding the educational resources that are available to the County's <br />two school systems, Since this body of work does not lend itself to reimbursement of the Segal <br />firm through a portion of operational savings, staff proposes that the Board authorize the <br />Manager and staff to work with the Chair to develop and execute appropriate agreement(s) with <br />the Segal firm as the need arises. Such agreements would provide reimbursement to the Segal <br />firm at an appropriate market -based hourly rate to be negotiated between the County and Segal <br />as opportunities are noted. <br />