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12 <br /> 1 Slide #6 <br /> Operating Budget Amendments <br /> Guncrat <br /> Page Tot'd <br /> educe trutsfer to Count} <br /> spiral for Climate <br /> Range Grata Fttndutg. <br /> tion A!Reduee the <br /> pool portion of Climate <br /> as$262,500.Option B: <br /> OP-004 Portie-Ascott 84 Capital duce school portion of ($2g2 500) {$808,704} <br /> zid Bedford Investment Plot innate tax 5131,250 and <br /> duce commtutity <br /> rolects portion$131,250. <br /> e poky will be <br /> ranged and will.need to <br /> e brought back to the <br /> oard in the fall. <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> 5 NORTH CAROLINA <br /> 2 <br /> 3 Chair Bedford reviewed budget amendment OPER-009, which she jointly sponsored with <br /> 4 Commissioner Portie-Ascott. She said the schools will hopefully be getting hundreds of millions. <br /> 5 She said that they had used up all ARPA dollars for Emergency Housing Assistance and they <br /> 6 went through the stages as a group. <br /> 7 <br /> 8 A motion was made by Chair Bedford, seconded by Vice-Chair Greene, to approve budget <br /> 9 amendment OPER-009 option A, as described on slide #6. <br /> 10 <br /> 11 Commissioner Fowler said she is on the climate committee and is for everything they can <br /> 12 do, and the beauty is they have made a heavy investment into schools and climate, and she can <br /> 13 agree with diminishing the school side and maintaining the community side. <br /> 14 Commissioner Hamilton said she agrees that the core things are food, housing, and <br /> 15 education. She said that given the budget situation they are in it is hard to fund those. She said <br /> 16 that she was a little concerned about taking money from the schools because there is not a bond <br /> 17 yet. She said she would rather have option B because they do not know what is going to happen, <br /> 18 but they know there are huge needs. <br /> 19 Commissioner Richards said she is supportive of this amendment. She said the Climate <br /> 20 Action Plan and climate tax, as they recognized, is not something the Board can implement. She <br /> 21 said that the community has to be engaged. She said that even though the projects can be small, <br /> 22 they make a big deal to families. She said that the school districts were slow to spend the money <br /> 23 they had and any changes they make for capital should take climate into account. She said she <br /> 24 is supportive of leaving the funding for the community intact. <br /> 25 Vice-Chair Greene said she agrees with Commissioner Richards. She said that four of <br /> 26 them saw the sustainability model at Weaver Community and they learned that there are ripple <br /> 27 effects, and the beauty is that maybe they do not know how far they ripple out, but they are all in <br /> 28 agreement they need to support the environment. <br /> 29 <br /> 30 VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> 31 <br />