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I CABARRUS COUNTY Department o[ Social SerVices P.O. Box 668 Concord, North Carolina 28026-0668 Jarn~ F. Cook, Diderot 0ctohar 3, 198~ ~[EHORA~U)I TO: Charles HcOinnis, County Manage~..~ FROH: Ji~ Cook, Social Service Direct~r~ t~ SUBJECT: Attached Bu~ge~ ~end~en~ Attached is a budget amendment request in connection with the ~eatharization Assistance Program which we would like to ask that the hoard of Commissioners consider at its first October meeting. We had planned to subcontract the purchase of labor and materials for this program. No bids, however, were received at the bid opening September 2Sth. (Newspaper advertisements bad been run and over 50 letters had been sent to the area contractors.) Ne have concluded that our only practical alternative for implementing the program at this time will be to usa in-house staff to perform the work. About 80 percent of ~eatherization Programs do this. This budget amendment provides for the following: 1) The creation of two carpenter positions at Grade 58. Ne are asking that these be established ss full-time positions to include benefits. 2) Rent of a small warehouse. 3) Purchase of an insulation blowing machine and power tools. 4. Funding for training and technical assistance. ~hen our State contract arrived, we found that we had been allocated an additional $10,000 in regular program funds. Also, wa have been provided an agditional $2,~00 in Training and Technical Assistance Funding for travel and other staff development costs as well as for brochures and other forms of publicity. Ye have added this funding to the budget. Totsl revenues available for the program through the end of Hatch are now $52,500. l~e have been promised an additional $30,000 for April through June. This program has been in existeoce since the mid-19?0~s and we feel confidant that we will receive funding on an ongoing basis.