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May 19, 2014 (Regular Meeting) Page 2014
<br />Achieve ($304,940.00). The $877,840.00 decrease will be made to regular
<br />instructional services budget.
<br />UPON MOTION of Vice Chairman Burrage, seconded by Commissioner Morris
<br />and unanimously carried, the Board adopted the following budget amendment:
<br />Date-4/22/2014 Amount :$877,840
<br />Dept. Head. Susan Fearringten, Asst. Finance Director Department: Finance - CCS
<br />© Internal Transfer Within Department ❑ Transfer Between Departments /Funds ❑ Supplemental Request
<br />Purpose: Cabarrus County Schools requested adjustments to their Current Expense Funding. This
<br />Budget Amendment reduces the Regular Instructional Services budget and increases funding for
<br />Charter Schools ($313,000), local match of School Resource Officers ($260,000), and funds to
<br />cover the unfunded portion of summer school camps /Read to Achieve (total of $304.840).
<br />Account
<br />Number
<br />Account
<br />Name
<br />Approved
<br />Budget
<br />Inc
<br />Amount
<br />Dec
<br />Amount
<br />Revised
<br />Budget
<br />00197110- 970111
<br />Regular Instruction
<br />$14,536,092.00
<br />$877,840.00
<br />$13,658,252.00
<br />00197110 - 970141
<br />Payments to other Govt
<br />$1,334,635.00
<br />$313,000.00
<br />$1,647,635.00
<br />00197110 - 970116
<br />Student Services -Cert
<br />$1,032,431.00
<br />$260,000.00
<br />$1,292,431.00;
<br />00197110- 970125
<br />10perational Sup sere
<br />1$10
<br />$83,950.00
<br />1 $10,873,296.00
<br />00197110 - 970113
<br />Alternative Frog & Ser
<br />$272,187.00
<br />$220,890.00
<br />$493,077.00
<br />(F-3) Finance - Update of Capital Projects and Special Revenue Fund Budgets
<br />and Related Project Ordinances
<br />Note: This item was moved to New Business for discussion. See G -6.
<br />(1 -4) Human Services - Categorical. Eligibility Resolution
<br />The proposed resolution requests the state to evaluate the decision to
<br />implement categorical eligibility for the Food and Nutrition Program due to
<br />the impact on both caseload size as well as work demand on local departments
<br />of Social Services.
<br />'[POP MOTION of Vice Chairman Burrage, seconded by Commissioner Morris
<br />and unanimously carried, the Board adapted the following resolution:
<br />Resolution No. 2014-°09
<br />RESOLUTION OF THE CABARRUS COUNTY BOARD OF
<br />COMMISSIONERS REGARDING THE IMPACT
<br />OF CATEGORICAL ELIGIBILITY
<br />WHEREAS, In July of 2010, the state of North Carolina elected the
<br />categorical eligibility option under the USDA policy for the Food and
<br />Nutrition Program
<br />WHEREAS, In selecting the categorical eligibility option, the state of
<br />North Carolina eliminated the assets test for eligibility for Food and
<br />Nutrition Program
<br />WHEREAS, In selecting the categorical eligibility option, the state of
<br />North Carolina increased the income limit to 200% of poverty
<br />WHEREAS, Forty three states have implemented the categorical
<br />eligibility option greatly expanding the number of recipients within the Food
<br />and Nutrition Program and increasing total spending on the program to over
<br />$84.6 billion in 2011
<br />WHEREAS, Cabarrus County experienced an 18% increase in caseloads the
<br />year Categorical Eligibility was implemented
<br />WHEREAS, The North Carolina FAST system has been a burden on counties
<br />in processing the applications and recertifications within the Food and
<br />Nutrition Program
<br />WHEREAS, Categorical eligibility is an imprudent policy that
<br />automatically adds persons to the food stamp rolls without determining
<br />whether they are economically needy. An analysis conducted for the USDA by
<br />Mathematica Policy Research estimated that eliminating the asset limits in
<br />the food stamp program would expand program caseload and costs by 22 percent
<br />in good economic times. In periods of very high unemployment, this number
<br />presumably would be quite a bit higher. Future food stamp expenditures could
<br />be substantially reduced if Congress eliminated categorical eligibility,
<br />restored normal asset limits on eligibility, and reestablished the gross
<br />income eligibility standard at 130 percent of the federal poverty level. (1)
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