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MEMORANDUM TO: Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) and Manager FROM: Alice Gordon 4~~ G RE: Data Related to County Policy on Equitable Allocation of Funds for County Projects DATE: May 28, 2001 On May 23 I wrote a memorandum on "County Policy on Equitable Allocation of Funds for County Projects" suggesting that we should reconsider the County's recently adopted "Policy Statement Regarding the Expenditure of County Bond Funds for Parks and Open Space" at the regular BQCC meeting on June 5. It is my understanding that the item is on the Action Agenda for June S . I. Background A. Current bond lic 's roblematic In that memorandum, I suggested that this bond policy was flawed for several reasons that I outlined. I further suggested that the County should adopt more general language to reaffirm its long-standing commitment to serve all Orange County's citizens by striving to ensure an equitable distribution of resources throughout Orange County, and then discuss the question. of what further policy statements were desirable. The purpose of this memorandum is to illustrate some of the points made in the May 23 memorandum by presenting data related to the County's allocation of resources. B. Equitable allocation., of resources. is complex Before I do that, let me reiterate that the question of the equitable allocation of resources is complex. One of those complexities involves the County's statutory responsibilities, especially concerning those Categories of responsibility within and outside its planning. and zoning jurisdiction (i.e. municipal jurisdictions). On the one hand, the County is responsible for school facilities all over Orange County. On the other hand, the county is not now responsible for functions within municipalities that relate to or are affected by town plarming and zoning policies. Examples are recreation and parks, libraries, and affordable housing. They could become solely county responsibilities (even within the towns) via a memorandum of agreement, but presently they are not just the responsibility of Orange County. The three scenarios given below start with the ~urrentiy adopted policy for the allocation of bond funds for parks and open space, along with associated information being distributed to the Capital Needs Advisory Task Force (CNATF). The second and third scenarios vary the assumptions given in the first scenario. However, all three scenarios use the premise that the allocation is between the percent of resources going to Chapel Hill Township on the one hand, and the other six townships on the other hand, as stated in our currently adopted policy. All three scenarios also use the premise that the percent for all categories will be grouped into one final total percent, since that was done for the current policy. The underlying data for the percentages for scenarios two and three were provided by Orange County staff.