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Laura Blackmon said that the separate requests are listed on the back page. The request did not come in when the other requests were coming in. It came in outside of the process, so she did not recommend it. Chair Jacobs asked how many requests are received outside the process. Gwen Harvey said that this is the only one. Chair Jacobs made reference to the Orange County Partnership for Young Children and asked if this was a new request since it is all $0 on 8-7. Gwen Harvey said that it is not a brand new agency making a request. It might be a special initiative outside of State funding. Laura Blackmon said that if it is on this list, it came through the application process. Chair Jacobs said that it shows all zeroes in the past. He is puzzled about why it is listed in this manner. Chair Jacobs asked about the school nurse program and the increase of$160,000 from last year. He just heard from the two school systems that they are caught up. Health Director Rosie Summers said that this is for salary increase for the nine positions. Chair Jacobs and Commissioner Carey asked that someone check on this because $160,000 is a lot for 5% for only nine positions. Commissioner Gordon made reference to Piedmont Wildlife Center and HYAA. She remembers having a conversation about that, and asked for more information. Chair Jacobs said that these two were put on probation for now. For Piedmont Wildlife Center, it was a disproportionate amount of money going to them for the services rendered to Orange County, and HYAA had some diversity issues and it has offered to meet with the Human Rights and Relations Commission. The Board did not agree to any amounts going up. The Board asked staff to research this increase, because it did not recommend an increase for Piedmont Wildlife. Chair Jacobs said that he does not want to give more money to Research Triangle Regional Partnership. Chair Jacobs made reference to page 3 of Appendix D-2, and asked about the incentive program. Michael McGinnis said that the County funded this several years ago to encourage employees to conserve energy and resources. The $2,500 was budgeted for providing incentives for employees to come up with programs that would save money or provide better services. This has not been funded in the last several years. Chair Jacobs made reference to Lake Orange and said that he thought that Hillsborough paid $20,000 for half of modernizing the system. He asked about the $1,500 budgeted. Donna Coffey said that this is for upkeep of the property. She will make sure this is the case. Commissioner Nelson asked when the County Commissioners voted to drug test all employees and Laura Blackmon said that the Board did not vote to do this. Particular categories of employees are drug-tested. Commissioner Carey asked that something be brought in writing about positions that require drug testing and what the current policy is. Chair Jacobs made reference to the global question of outside agency funding. There were three agencies that have never been funded before, including one for$60,000. Commissioner Carey pointed out that there are 26 projected increases. He thought that the Board agreed to hold all outside agencies at last year's level.