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ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: February 5, 2002 <br /> Action Age a <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: Budget Amendment#3 <br /> DEPARTMENT: Budget PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) rN I <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Attachment 1. Budget as Amended Donna Dean, 2452151 <br /> Spreadsheet <br /> Attachment 2. Smart Start Grant Project TELEPHONE-NUMBERS: <br /> Ordinance Hillsborough 132.8181 <br /> Attachment 3. Medicaid Maximization Chapel Hill 96BS501 <br /> Capital Project Ordinance Durham 6881331 <br /> Mebane 336-2212031 <br /> PURPOSE: To approve budget otinance amendments and grant and capital project <br /> ordinances for fiscal year 2001-02. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> Orange County Public Library <br /> 1. The Orange County Ads Commission recently awated the Orange County Library a $150 <br /> grassroots grant This grerd, made possible by North Carolina Ads Council, provides funds <br /> for the library to purchase supplies far its Come, Hobbies, Arts, Kits' Activi es (CHAKA) <br /> Pmgiam. No additional County funds are required for the receipt of these funds. (see <br /> column 1.attachment l) <br /> 2. On September 16, 2001, the Boat of Commissioners approved an Interim Smart SSart <br /> appropriation from the Orange County Partnership for Young Children (OOPYC) for the <br /> Library's Traveling Treasures program in the amount of $2,557. Recently, the Library <br /> recall notification that the OCPYC approved additional Smart Start trios totaling $2,556 <br /> for the program. The additions[funds bring the current budget for this program to 55,113. <br /> The Traveling Treasures program offers bilingual library materials to day core centers <br /> throughout the County, particuiady in northern Orange County,to help Hispanic <br /> preschoolers and their families develop and Improve their reading skills. The attached <br /> Smart Start Grant Project Ordinance(Attachment 2) provides for the receipt of these <br /> additional grentfunds. There is no County match for the receipt of these funds. <br /> Department of Social Services <br /> 3. During the first half of this fiscal year the Department of Social Services received higher <br /> than normal requests to assist clients with utility costs. On December 3, 2001, The Load of <br />