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In the realm of education, the recommended budget eliminates the fair funding program, which split funding <br />equally among school districts, in favor of health and safety service contracts that will provide school resource <br />officers to middle and high schools and a public health nurse to every school facility. <br /> <br />This change requires an addition of $1.4 million in funding on top of the $1.9 million already allocated for the <br />fair funding program. <br /> <br />Other aspects of the new budget include enhancements to OC Alerts, the current public emergency notification <br />system for Orange County. <br /> <br />Read more: http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2016/05/county-budget-in-progress <br />Quoted from The Daily Tar Heel <br /> <br /> <br />