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06168606/16/1986 Non Department NO/AC 1 Budget requests from School, and Mental Health NO/AC 2 Budget Amendments for Health Dept. and volunteer fire depts. Health appr 3 Budget Amendment for Merit program Non Department appr 4 Proposed budget public hearing Non Department NO/AC RANDOLPH QOUNi'Y BOARD OF 00MMISSIONERS MINUTES June 16, 1986 The Randolph County Board of Commissioners met in special session at 3:00 p.m. on June 16, 1986 for the purpose of hearing budget requests from the Randolph County Schools, Asheboro City Schools, and Mental Health Center. Commissioners Frye, Langley, Davidson, and Comer were present. Commissioner Petty was absent. Don Osborne, Chairman of the Randolph County Board of Education, presented the County Schools' most urgent needs, which include classroom space at Trinity High to replace 7 trailers presently housing the overflow. Dr. George Fleetwood, Superintendent of Randolph County Schools, discussed other needs of the schools and asked that the Archdale -Trinity supplemental school tax be set at 10�. Bob McRae, Assistant Superintendent, discussed the Basic Education Program as it impacts Randolph County Schools. Under this plan, 400 positions (including 174 classroom teachers) will be added to the County schools by 1993. Bob Trogdon, Assistant Superintendent, reported on a long-range study of facility needs which the County schools have undertaken. Eleven of the twenty-one campuses have already been studied. Mr. Trogdon indicated it would take $20 million to replace outdated buildings and to renovate other buildings. This in in addition to new buildings needed to replace trailers ($7.7 million) and roof replacements ($1.2 million). Chairman Darrell Frye discussed the possibility of funding additional school needs with the additional i% local sales tax under consideration in the General Assembly now. The outcome of that, however, will not be known until after this budget is adopted. Board of Education Keith Crisco, Vice -Chairman of the Asheboro City Schools,/ spoke on behalf of the City schools' needs and told Commissioners how last year's funding had been spent. Three guidance counselors were added at the elementary level; a computer science course was added to the high school; a Writing to Read program was begun in one elementary school; a computer lab was added in the junior high schools; an Open Court reading program was added at the elementary level; an in -school suspension program was added. Capital funds were spent on a boiler, roof, guttering, carpet. Duane Mattheis, Superintendent of the Asheboro City Schools, requested the Board to reinstate to the budget the original amounts requested by the City schools. He suggested they consider raising taxes beyond what has been recommended by the County Manager in able to accommodate their funding requests or to consider raising the Asheboro City Schools supplemental tax rate. Rick Moll, Finance Officer for Randolph County Mental Health Center, requested that the Commissioners fund their budget at $68,000, same as last year. He said this amount would be 2.3% of their total budget of $2,985,606. On motion of Langley, seconded by Comer, the Board approved budget amendments for the Health Departmnet and several of the volunteer fire departments. Copies included by reference. County Manager Frank Willis discussed the current merit program and our personnel system and told the Board how much he appreciates what they have done for the County in the area of personnel. On motion of Davidson, seconded by Comer, the Board approved a budget amendment on the merit program. Copy included by reference. RANDOLPH COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MINUTES PUBLIC HEARING June 16, 1986 The Randolph County Board of Commissioners met for an advertised public hearing at 7:00 P.M. on June 16, 1986 in Courtroom B, County Courthouse, Asheboro, NC. The purpose of the public hearing was to receive comments from the public concerning the proposed 1986-87 budget. Commissioners Frye, Langley, Davidson and Comer were present. Commissioner Petty was absent. George Elliott, Health Director, and MiMi Cooper, Health Educator, presented a 14 -minute video of the Sophia and Melancton dumpster sites. The video was recorded during the preceding week and revealed such items as a dead cow thrown out on the ground, a truck bed, brush, lights shot out, signs vandalized and torn down, 3 fires in the dumpsters, and a kitchen stove thrown in the creek behind the dumpster. Also shown were scavangers in and around the dumpsters, TV's thrown in the dumpster, and roofing and building materials thrown out. At the Melancton site there was a woods fire surrounding the site. Mr. Elliott told Commissioners that the County has a serious problem with the dumpster sites, especially the Sophia and Melancton sites. He said these sites are beyond management and should be closed down. The contract with Burgess -Maness, who hauls the solid waste to the landfill, could be terminated immediately if the Board does not allocate funds for the dumpster sites. All dumpster site leases could be paid off for $1380. If the Board does not intend to close the Sophia and Melancton sites, Mr. Elliott urged them to have Sheriff's deputies to patrol them much more closely and to issue citations for violations of the solid waste ordinance. Mr. Elliott said that, in his opinion, other public health concerns which can not now be fully addressed because of lack of funding should take priority over funding of dumpster sites which are so abused. He said work with high risk infants, medically indigent senior citizens, deaths among babies being born, and hundreds of identified target children who are not being served by the Health Department are all problems which need to be addressed by the Health Department. This work could be done with funds from the dumpster program. Chairman Frye invited comments from the audience, which included 19 people. W. S. Beeson (Rt. 1, Sophia), owner of the dumpster site in Sophia, stated that he is very unhappy with the situation there and would not renew the County's lease to use it as a dumpster site again. The lease terminates in one year. Mr. Beeson said that he hopes the County will provide a sturdy fence, a sizeable ditch, and patroling of the area once the site is closed, to discourage people from continuing to dump garbage there. Al Wall (Rt. 5, Box 200, Farmer) said that his neighborhood is happy with their dumpster site and hope they do not lose this service. He spoke on behalf of the Farmer Grange. Malcolm Humble (Rt. 2, Box 418, Randleman) Senior Citizen, told Commissioners that the retired people do not want a tax increase. Glenda Loomis (Rt. 10, Box 412-0 asked a question concerning the loss of a teacher for the Academically Gifted program in the City schools because the Com- missioners did not fully fund the City schools' request. Chairman Frye explained that Commissioners do not dictate funding priorities for the schools; they only allocate dollars. The school board determines how the money is spent. Hearing no further comments, Chairman Frye declared the public hearing closed.