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MINCTl'ES ORANGE COU'!~'X B~ OF COMMISSIONERS SPEC2AL i+IEE.TING $LIDGE'I' NlAY 29, 1985 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in special session on May 29, 1985 at 7:30 in the Courtroom of the Old Past Office in Chapel Hill, North Carolina for the purpose of hearing a presentation by the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Schools on operating and capital requirements for 1985-86 and a presentation from County P4anager Kenneth R. Ttxx~pson on the major cost elements of a 1D~ personnel increase proposed by the state. ~S~(~T RS~$~SENT~ Chair willhoit arr-J Commissioners Shirley t+]arshall, Moses Carey. Ben L1_oyd and Norman 4~alker. County t4anager Kenneth R. Thompson, Dire.^tor of Finance Gordon Baker, Assistant County triar~ager Albert Iiittrell, Financial Analyst Donna Clayton and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe. Dr. Parrish, Chair of the Chapel Fiill/Carrbora Schools, noted the budget is nonexpansionary and the recommer~ation from the County tanager is greatly inadequate to fully fund the budget. Sue Baker, School Board Member, stressed that full funding of the budget in just a continuation of their present programs and services with no increase in staff. She requested that this continuation be funded. She gave a brief sur[¢nary of the achievements by Chapel Ha11-Carrboro students. Dr. Mayer, Superintendent of Schools, made the following conanents: 1. Student population continues to climb with an expected enroll- ment for 1985-86 of 5,334 students. 2. The 1984-85 budget was supplemented with approximately 5800,000 from the furu3 balance which is a nonrecurring source of revenu- e. 3. The budget request represents a status quo budget for program expenditures with a 5~ inflationary factor built into non- .: program expenditures with exceptions in several areas. Dr. Mayer gave an overview of the preliminary budget and su~rized certain key items: 1. Revenue projections are based on a per pupil allocation of $782 for 5,334 projected students which equals 5946,439. 2. A district tax increase of 3.7 cents to 19.3 cents will yield 5602,494. 3. The appropriation from the County represents 87.ag of all local funds. a. Eighty-five percent (8S~) of the request will go for employees, Harvey Gay, Finance Officer, described the process by which the budget was Put together and detailed information about changes in the actual amounts of money being spent: 1. Ten percer~ (IO$) salary increase is in the budget for all employees. i. Five percent (5~) inflation increase for all nonsalaried cost except for utility cast, telephone cost, insurance cost, etc. 3. Referring to Category 1, current capital is a reflection of the five-year, lorxl-range capital plan. 0~J:a~04