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43 Orange County Board of Commissioners Page 2 December 2, 2003 the same or different authorized amounts less than the maximum permitted for each of the districts) or county -wide. If an election calling for a county -wide supplemental tax passes, the taxes collected are apportioned among the local school administrative units in the county pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C -430. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C -430 requires a current expense county appropriation in a multi - school administrative unit to be apportioned according to the membership of each unit. The total money collected from a county -wide supplemental tax would therefore be divided by the total school membership in the entire county for each budget year, as determined by and certified to the board of county commissioners by the State Board of Education, and then appropriated, per pupil, to each of the administrative units according to their membership. P_ county -wide supplemental tax in Orange County could not exceed sixty cents on each one hundred dollars of property valuation (tax district equalling or exceeding 100,000 population). A supplemental tax for one or each of the administrative units in Orange County could not exceed fifty cents on one hundred dollars of property valuation (each tax district would have less than 100,000 population). N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C -502.1 One of the ways the law provides for the election to be called is as the result of a petition. Local boards of education may petition the board of commissioners for an election in their respective school administrative units. There is also a provision for twenty -five percent (25 °s) of the qualified voters who reside in a local school administrative unit to petition the local board of education for an election. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C -503. In the event there is a successful voter petition, that is, one where 250 or more of the qualified voters who reside in a local administrative unit signing the petition, the board of education of the administrative unit receiving the petition must give "due consideration to [the] voter petition...." N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C -505. That means, a qualifying voter petition does not require the board of education receiving it to petition the board of commissioners for an election. 'The special district tax in effect in the Chapel Hill - Carrboro City special tax district has an authorized maximum of thirty -five cents on one hundred dollars valuation of property.