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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May 16, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. S-1C <br />SUBJECT: Budget Amendment #11 <br />DEPARTMENT: Budget Office <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Budget As Amended Spreadsheet <br />2. Orange County Schools Capital Project <br />Ordinances <br />3. Status of Commissioners' Contingency <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Donna Dean, 245-2151 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968501 <br />- - Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To approve budget amendments and Orange County Schools Capital Project <br />Ordinances. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Amendments for Items Approved by Prior Board Action <br />1. Shearon' Harris Spent Fuel Storage Project Financial Update <br />Through April 30, 2000, the BOCC has authorized the expenditure of up to $211,300 for investigation <br />and intervention in the Shearon Harris Spent Fuel Storage Project. A grant obtained by NCWARN <br />will offset $15,000 of this expense. Approximately $48,000 of the authorized- expenditures were <br />actually paid in FY 1998-99. The County has received pledges and/or actual contributions totaling <br />$20,000 from Durham County and the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill to defray some of the <br />expenses involved in this legal challenge. <br />A balance of $128,300 in County funds will be required to cover work on the Shearon Harris project <br />authorized by the BOCC through April 30, 2000. The BOCC included a larger than normal <br />Contingency appropriation of $175,000 in the adopted FY 1999-00 budget in anticipation that there <br />would be significant expenses required to pursue this legal process. The BOCC has appropriated <br />$37,900 from Contingency thus far in 1999-00, leaving a total of $137,900 uncommitted. This <br />amendment appropriates Commissioner Contingency of $128,300 and budgets $20,000 from the <br />local governments to cover the project-to-date expenditure authorizations. <br />