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RECEIVED PROM LIZ BROWN ~p <br />OG/17/05 <br />Questions regarding Orange County Schools and proposed district tax .June 2005 <br />Tax income <br />1. How much money would a 1-cent district tax bring in for OCS? <br />2. How notch would a 1-cent countywide tax bring in for OCS (asswning that <br />roughly 63 percent must go to CHCCS, and remaitring 37 percent to OCS)? <br />3. To raise the unfunded $2.1 million requested by OCS this year; (to fully fund our <br />budget), what would an OCS district tax have to be set at? <br />4. What would the countywide tax have to be? (4 cents?) <br />General questions: Land values <br />1. What is total land mass of county? What percentage is in OCS district? How <br />many total acres is that? <br />2. What is the average home value (single-family residential) in the OCS district? <br />How about in the CHCCS district? <br />3. What's the total value of the property-tax base in OCS district? <br />4. Haw about in the CHCCS district? <br />5. What is total value of other (non-real) property (cars, boats, other taxables) in <br />OCS? In CHCCS? <br />6. Haw many dwellings valued at $100,000 or less exist in the OCS district? <br />7. How many such dwellings exist in the CHCCS district? <br />Tax Bases: Commercial <br />1. To compare homeowners' tax burdens in OCS and CHCCS districts: What <br />peroentage of CHCCS district isnon-residential/commercial? <br />2. What percentage of OCS district isnon-residential/commercial? (Not <br />Hillsborough alone, but all of the OCS district, including Hillsborough) <br />3. What percentage of the whole county is non-residential/commercial? <br />4. What would it take to pool all commercial tax money (in both OCS and CHCCS <br />district) and disburse it equally per-pupil across both districts? <br />Tax Bases: Farm-use (exemption) Program <br />1, What percentage of the whale county is in the farm-use program? <br />2. What percentage of the OCS district? <br />3. What percentage of the CHCCS district? <br />4, What does this mean? Is it accurate to describe this as, for example, farmland that <br />would have a market assessment of $1 million is taxed instead at 6 percent of that, <br />and pays taxes as if it's worth only $60,000? <br />5, How significant is this for the OCS district? Are there any figures that show tax <br />dollars lost because land is entered into this program? (I understand the value of <br />this program; however, I am aware of the costs to the tax base.) <br />Tax Bases: Conservation and Watershed protection <br />1. What percentage of OCS dishict is in conservation programs, or otherwise non- <br />developable due to legal restraints? (including Duke forest, parks, conservatiot <br />easements, watershed protection, etc; but excluding OWASA) <br />