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20 <br /> Slide#8 <br /> COUNTY COST TO CONTINUE ESTIMATES <br /> • Known Personnel Cost Drivers <br /> Cost Driver Estimated Amount <br /> Annualized Salary Changes $4,115,000 <br /> Merit Performance Awards $440,000 <br /> Health Insurance (5.5% increase) $470,000 <br /> Retirement Contributions $1,600,000 <br /> TOTAL KNOWN COSTS $6,625,000 <br /> • Other Personnel Considerations <br /> — Across the Board Wage Adjustment- Every 1%=$800,000 <br /> — Living Wage-$17.65 <br /> — Public Safety Overtime-$1.8 million to right size <br /> �1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> NORTH CAROLINA <br /> Travis Myren said the health insurance costs were increasing in part due to the cost of <br /> prescriptions. <br /> Slide #9 <br /> COUNTY COST TO CONTINUE ESTIMATES <br /> • Operating and Contractual Services Considerations <br /> — Opening Southern Branch Library-$800k <br /> • Planned open date in October,hire staff in July for hiring and training lead time. <br /> • Also includes costs for AMS(utilities,maintenance and custodial) <br /> — Exhausting American Rescue Plan Act Funding <br /> • Emergency Housing Assistance Program-$2 million rental assistance+$100k staff costs <br /> • Long Time Homeowner's Assistance-$250,000 <br /> • GARE Youth Program-$45,000 <br /> • ARPA Grant Coordinator -$67,000(will evaluate need for closing out ARPA projects) <br /> — Annualizing New Programs <br /> Mobile Crisis Response-Included in Annualized Salary Changes <br /> • Bridge Housing-—64,000 County Cost in PEH <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> NORTH CAROLINA <br /> Bonnie Hammersley said the emergency housing assistance program will not have any <br /> funding in future fiscal years. <br />