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<br />The Board of Commissioners for the County of Cabarrus met in called
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<br />session at the Courthouse in Concord, North Carolina on Tuesday, May 31,
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<br />1977 at 9:30 a.m.
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<br />Present-Chairman: S. Glenn Hawfield, Jr.
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<br />Commissioners:
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<br />Robert A. McClary
<br />John A. Hammett
<br />Marcelle Milloway
<br />Troy R. Cook
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<br />Chairman Hawfield announced that the meeting was called to receive the
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<br />proposed budget for fiscal year 1977-78.
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<br />County Manager Charles McGinnis presented the budget and read the
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<br />following budget message~
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<br />The recommended budget presented to you reflects primarily the completion
<br />or continuation of projects and/or programs previously established. Only
<br />one new program activity is proposed in this budget. This program is
<br />needed to establish a county service garage to provide maintenance for
<br />the fleet of vehicles (54), landfill heavy equipment, and the county's
<br />maintenance department equipment.
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<br />Due to the requirement of the Fiscal Control Act (G. S. 159-11), many
<br />aspects of the budget have been changed and a comparison to previous years
<br />is difficult. All sources of revenue and expenditures are required to be
<br />reflected in the budget. The budget as amended to date for 1976-77 is
<br />$10,566,678.00. The Cabarrus County General Fund budget for fiscal year
<br />1977-78, as requested by all deparhnents, is $13,866,094.59. The tax
<br />rate required if the budget is adopted as requested by the departments
<br />would be 94¢ compared to 61¢ for 1976-77. I have recommended a reduction
<br />of requests by $1,116,485.76. To maintain the same tax rate as last year,
<br />it would still require an additional reduction of $997,329.83. A contrib-
<br />ution of $653,290.00 to the Capital Projects Fund could be eliminated if
<br />the construction of Building "B" is deferred. This would leave the need
<br />to reduce the remaining general fund requests by $344,039.00 in order to
<br />maintain the same tax rate. The county could support a budget of
<br />$11,752,279.00 with the revenue as follows:
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<br />Ad Valorem Tax 61¢
<br />Prior Years Tax
<br />Intragovernmental Revenue
<br />State & Federal Grants
<br />Social Service Revenue
<br />Health ]{evenues
<br />Other Revenues
<br />Fund Balance Appro.
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<br />5,370,000
<br />125,000
<br />1,915,000
<br />1,434,786
<br />884,526
<br />393,342
<br />829,625
<br />800,000
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<br />$11,752,279
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<br />The property tax value for 1976-77 is $911,000,000.00. The property tax
<br />value projected in 1977-78 is $935,000,000.00.
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<br />Shown in this year's budget is the Data Processing Department, which had
<br />been previously shown as a one-line item appropriation. There are some
<br />eleven positions that appear as new positions. However, most positions are
<br />ones that were in existence prior to the county budgetary inclusions of
<br />these agencies. Specifically, I have reference to the CETA Youthwork Program,
<br />the Cabarrus Senior Services, Inc., the Home Health Care Program, and a
<br />federally supported program in Social Services. There are some additional
<br />county positions, however, two in the Sheriff's Department, two in Data
<br />Processing, one position in the County Service Garage, three in Social
<br />Services, and one position in Recreation. The position in Social Services
<br />is 80% State and Federal money, the position in the Health Department is 23%
<br />State money, the position established in Recreation is supported by additional
<br />revenue from their program. The rest are all county funded positions:
<br />Sheriff (2), Data Processing (2), and County Garage (1). The budget has a
<br />recommended increase of 7~% in salaries for adjustments to the county pay
<br />plan.
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