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PERFORMANCE RESULTS: FY 2011 -12 <br />Goal 1. Preserve and enhance the quality of life by addressing growth with sound public policies that sustain resources, <br />provide high quality services, and fund infrastructure needs. <br />OBJECTIVES <br />RESULTS <br />PROGESS <br />1 <br />Approve a financing plan to fund the school systems' five -year <br />Some capital needs of the school systems are being <br />critical needs. <br />financed through qualified school construction bonds <br />PROGRESS <br />(QSCBS). However both school systems have <br />additional critical needs that are not addressed in the <br />county's 5 year plan due to financial constraints. <br />2 <br />Develop a long -term financial model for providing for the capital <br />Significantly more than 10% has been pay as you go. <br />needs of schools with a minimum of 10% to be "pay as you go" <br />Funding of recent projects has been accomplished <br />SUCCESS <br />(meaning 10% of the cost will not be financed). This will work <br />primarily through capital reserve, lottery proceeds, <br />toward a long -term goal of paying for new schools with 20% of <br />ADM and APFO funds. <br />construction funds designated as "pay as you go ". <br />3 <br />Set the tax rate at a level that raises sufficient revenue to meet <br />The County's tax rate has remained relatively flat since <br />County needs and goals. <br />FY 2006. More recently the county has been providing <br />PROGRESS <br />the services to meet the basic needs of the public and <br />has made service reductions in many areas to meet <br />available funding. <br />4 <br />Begin a comprehensive, sustainable community initiative, with <br />Several initiatives have been implemented to meet this <br />the N.C. Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation <br />objective, to include: Construction of the Cruse Meats <br />SUCCESS <br />Trust Fund grant proposal as the centerpiece. This initiative <br />Harvest Facility (planned completion April 2012); and <br />will include a plan to "green" County government operations <br />development of the Elma C. Lomax Incubator Farm. <br />and regulations by employing environmentally friendly <br />practices. <br />In efforts to green County operations 37% of all office <br />supplies contained recycled content, and there was a <br />5% reduction in the amount of copy paper used from <br />CY2010 to CY2011. As of September 2011, the county <br />has reduced electricity usage by 801,644 kWh as <br />21 <br />Page 138 <br />