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55 <br /> Vice-Chair McKee asked if the allocation adjustments that were projected at that time are <br /> still in effect. <br /> Susan Brown said that the MOU, which sunseted in 2017, was structured to go from <br /> $250,000 to 30% of what the county funds libraries at and this was a 3% increase over 3 years. <br /> She said since that time, the same amount has been the funding amount since then. <br /> Vice-Chair McKee said that's why it is critical for him to understand the number of out of <br /> town users of the Chapel Hill Public Library. <br /> Commissioner Richards asked, given the Southern branch coming online, how that <br /> factored into the task force's discussion. <br /> Susan Brown said that the Southern branch was the topic of many meetings, but because <br /> there were so many unknowns, the task force did not recommend that be considered in the <br /> recommendations. <br /> Commissioner Fowler said they looked at two different ways of funding; one was access, <br /> and one was usage. She said that one came out at $900,000 and one was at $1.2 million based <br /> on the Orange County library budget. <br /> Commissioner Richards had questions about the word "use." <br /> Commissioner Fowler she said it is tricky because it could explain a lot of things. <br /> Commissioner Richards asked if instead of looking at Chapel Hill residents, what if they <br /> looked at non-Chapel Hill residents' usage. <br /> Susan Brown said another way of looking at it would be seeing the usage of Chapel Hill <br /> residents. <br /> Commissioner Richards asked if the recommendation was the most expensive, the least <br /> expensive or somewhere in the middle. <br /> Susan Brown said she would work with Erin Sapienza to get that information to the Board <br /> but that this was the smallest increase in the funding models. <br /> Chair Bedford read the following statistics from the report, which was linked in the agenda <br /> abstract: <br /> CHPL OCPL <br /> #of Patrons #of Patrons <br /> Orange County. Unincorporated 7,747 9,063 <br /> Remote. Outside of OC 3,365 1,940 <br /> Town of Carrboro 10,783 2,410 <br /> Town of Chapel Hill 26,165 2,981 <br /> Town of Hillsborough 836 4,275 <br /> Total 48,896 20,669 <br /> USER RESIDENCE <br /> Chair Bedford said that the report showed that creating a formula based on usage was <br /> not going to give the best representation, but the stats are not there to show duplicative. <br />