Orange County NC Website
<br />Although the individual county allocations have not been released, it is anticipated that <br />this will result in Orange County having a total budget of approximately $380,000. Many <br />states including North Carolina have requested that the federal govenunent release <br />emergency energy funds but no action has yet been taken by either the administration or <br />Congress. <br />Previous Year Expenditures <br />All of last year's federal CII' funds and about 60% of the Work First and county <br />emergency funds were expended for electricity, natural gas, fuel oil and wood. <br />July 2004-June 2005 <br />Crisis Intervention Program <br />Work First EA <br />County General Assistance <br />Total <br />Clients Exp <br />1052 $195,498 <br />1112 $115,521 <br />1208 $115,947 <br />3.372* $426,966 <br />Comparison of First Quarter Spending of Current Year to Last Year <br />Social Services has spent 29% in the first quazter of this year compazed to the spending <br />for this time last year. <br />FY 2004 (Jul-Oct) <br />Clients Exp <br />Crisis Intervention Program <br />Work First EA <br />County General Assistance <br />Total <br />19 $ 2,952 <br />.379 $36,286 <br />38G $.34,902 <br />784* $74,140 <br />FY 2005 (Jul-Oct) <br />Clients Exp <br />32 $5,616 <br />422 $47,518 <br />394 $42,731 <br />848 $95,865 <br />`These numbers represents incidents and is not an unduplicated count of clients. IIowever, so far ibis year, <br />90% of the families have received assistance one time only. <br />