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12 <br /> Slide #6 <br /> Operating Budget Amendments <br /> Budget <br /> Amendment Sponsor Page Dept Amendment RevenueExpense Fund <br /> Total <br /> duce transfer to County <br /> apital for Climate <br /> Mange Grant Funding. <br /> ption A:Reduce the <br /> drool portion of Climate <br /> ax$262,500.Option B: <br /> OP-009 Portie-Ascott S4 Capital teduce school portion of ($262,500) ($808,706) <br /> and Bedford Investment Plan limate tax$131,250 and <br /> educe community <br /> rojects portion$131,250. <br /> e policy will be <br /> hanged and will need to <br /> e brought back to the <br /> oard in the fall <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> 6 NORTH CAROLINA <br /> Chair Bedford reviewed budget amendment OPER-009, which she jointly sponsored with <br /> Commissioner Portie-Ascott. She said the schools will hopefully be getting hundreds of millions. <br /> She said that they had used up all ARPA dollars for Emergency Housing Assistance and they <br /> went through the stages as a group. <br /> A motion was made by Chair Bedford, seconded by Vice-Chair Greene, to approve budget <br /> amendment OPER-009 option A, as described on slide #6. <br /> Commissioner Fowler said she is on the climate committee and is for everything they can <br /> do, and the beauty is they have made a heavy investment into schools and climate, and she can <br /> agree with diminishing the school side and maintaining the community side. <br /> Commissioner Hamilton said she agrees that the core things are food, housing, and <br /> education. She said that given the budget situation they are in it is hard to fund those. She said <br /> that she was a little concerned about taking money from the schools because there is not a bond <br /> yet. She said she would rather have option B because they do not know what is going to happen, <br /> but they know there are huge needs. <br /> Commissioner Richards said she is supportive of this amendment. She said the Climate <br /> Action Plan and climate tax, as they recognized, is not something the Board can implement. She <br /> said that the community has to be engaged. She said that even though the projects can be small, <br /> they make a big deal to families. She said that the school districts were slow to spend the money <br /> they had and any changes they make for capital should take climate into account. She said she <br /> is supportive of leaving the funding for the community intact. <br /> Vice-Chair Greene said she agrees with Commissioner Richards. She said that four of <br /> them saw the sustainability model at Weaver Community and they learned that there are ripple <br /> effects, and the beauty is that maybe they do not know how far they ripple out, but they are all in <br /> agreement they need to support the environment. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />