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Approve the Miscellaneous Budget Ordinance Amendment to Adjust Various Fund Budgets for FY 2020-21.
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Staff:
Department:
Amy Oland, Director
Business Management
Matt Brinkley, Assistant Director
Overview: After the Council adopts the annual budget, periodic changes require the Town to amend the current budget.
Recommendation(s):
That the Council:
* Enact the attached budget ordinance amendment to adjust the General Fund, Library Gift Fund, and the Capital Improvements Fund; and
* Enact the attached project ordinance amendment to adjust the Affordable Housing Fund.
Key Issues:
* General Fund
Hargraves Donation - Hargraves Community Center has received a donation of $6,000 from a local church who does not wish to receive any recognition for the donation. The funding is intended to be used for programs and activities supporting youth at the Hargraves Center. Staff proposes the funds be used toward equipment and supplies for STEM (robotics), life skills, entrepreneurship, and college prep classes as well as two water fountain bottle fillers needed at the facility. Enactment of the attached budget ordinance amendment would recognize and appropriate the $6,000 for support of Parks and Recreation programs.
* Library Gift Fund
Chapel Hill Library Foundation - The Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation would like to make a restricted gift of $25,000 to the Town. The gift is designated to fund redesign and update the furnishings and fixtures on the lower level of Chapel Hill Public Library and better support users' public computing needs. This gift will allow staff to contract with a designer to draft plans for a subsequent lower-level facelift.
Citizen Science Award - Chapel Hill Public Library has received a $5,000 Citizen Science Month Mini Award from the Network of the National Library of Medicine to increase awareness of and engagement in Citizen Science Month events and supplemental programs. Library will host a virtual/hybrid City Nature Challe...
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