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From YouTube: Board of Commissioners' Meeting - May 19, 2015 (part 2)
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Regular Meeting of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners from May 19, 2015.
Agenda of New Business is below. To see future agendas, visit buncombecounty.org.
New Business
Presentation of County Schools Budget Request (Dr. Tony Baldwin, County School Superintendent)
Presentation of City Schools Budget Request (Dr. Pam Baldwin, City School Superintendent)
Presentation of Asheville Buncombe Technical Community College Budget Request (Dr. Dennis King, President)
Budget Request (Todd Williams, District Attorney)
County Budget Message FY16 (Dr. Wanda Greene, County Manager)
Community Development Funding Requests
Supporting the Hemlock Preservation Project
B
You
thank
you.
Mr.
chairman
and
commissioners.
I
do
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
present
the
fiscal
year.
2016
budget
I've
participated
in
22
budgets
in
Buncombe
County.
This
is
my
22nd
and
no
two
of
them
have
been
alike,
and
this
year
we've
lived
in
a
rapidly
changing
environment.
Some
of
our
changes
are
by
choice
because
we
can
do
better
service
delivery,
better,
better,
serve
the
citizens
needs
and
summer
because
of
the
decisions
that
are
made
at
other
levels
of
government.
Excuse
me,
as
you
lead,
and
we
manage
the
county.
B
We
tried
to
make
really
good
decisions
and
tie
these
decisions
to
performance
measures
and
to
results.
We
want
to
deliver
the
rights
of
results
in
the
right
way,
ensuring
that
our
outcomes
are
sustainable.
The
budget
Audra
addressed
tonight
does
not
include
the
request
you've
heard
over
the
last
couple
of
hours.
In
the
coming
weeks.
We
will
look
to
you
for
guidance
on
how
and
what
to
incorporate
from
the
presentations
you
have
and
will
hear
as
the
night
goes
on
so
I'd
like
to
just
go
over
the
key
components
of
our
budget.
B
The
budget
we
bring
you
tonight,
just
387
million
540
1381
dollars-
that's
made
up
of
both
the
general
fund
and
the
non
general
fund.
Non
general
fund
portion
of
the
budget
is
79
million
nine
hundred
77,000,
it's
paid
for
primarily
with
fees
and
special
revenue
and
includes
things
like
solid
waste,
air
quality,
fire
districts,
occupancy
tax,
911
and
insurance,
as
is
usually
the
case
because
the
general
fund
is
paid
for
with
property.
Tax
I
tend
to
focus
my
efforts
on
going
over
the
general
fund
budget.
B
The
2015
amended
budget
is
322
million.
The
three
of
the
2016
budget
that
we're
bringing
is
307
million.
That's
a
four
point:
six
percent
decrease
from
one
year
to
the
next.
We
have
prepared
this
budget
and,
what's
in
it
now
our
current
tax
rate
of
60
point
four
cents.
As
you
well
know,
you
don't
govern
alone,
north
carolina
counties,
our
arms
of
the
state,
we're
influenced
and
directed
by
state
agencies
through
regulations
by
General
Assembly,
but
laws
in
the
budget
with
by
the
federal
government
laws
regulations
in
the
budget.
B
We
are
told
what
you
have
to
do,
what
you
can
do
and
if
they
don't
say
that
you
can,
then
you
can't
do
it.
We
we're
told
not
only
what
we
have
to
do,
but
often
how
we
have
to
do
it.
I
think
this
is
a
good
graph
that
shows
you
kind
of
the
breakdown
between
the
state,
the
county
and
the
municipalities.
B
If
you
look
at
the
the
medium
green
between
county
and
state,
those
are
the
things
that
we
have
to
provide
countywide
and
they
include
things
like
public
safety
being
the
jail
tax
assessment,
Register
of
Deeds
courts,
elections,
social
services,
public
health
and
education
funding,
those
where
we
provide
countywide
and
we
do
not
get
a
choice
about
providing
those.
There
are
some
other
things
about
cities
and
counties
can
provide,
and
you
see
that
in
the
the
little
slots
between
the
county
and
the
municipalities-
and
they
include
things
like
ems,
Parks
and
Recreation
solid
waste
libraries.
B
All
three
units
of
government
provides
some
code
enforcement,
then,
in
the
lower
left
you
see
what
municipalities,
Cannon
and,
in
some
cases,
have
to
provide
well
I.
Look
at
our
government
I.
Think
our
role
is
to
provide
cork
county
services
to
keep
our
communities
strong
and
safe
during
hard
times,
and
the
demand
for
our
service
tends
to
increase
during
a
really
hard
economic
times
for
our
citizens.
B
I
think
we
have
consistently
for
a
number
of
years,
use
the
three
guiding
principles
and
when
they
have
served
us
very
well,
both
from
a
programmatic
and
facility
perspective,
we
focus
on
our
core
services
in
our
priorities.
We
realign
existing
resources
and
meet
priority
needs
and
we
maintain
our
long-term
planning
focus.
B
B
So
where
do
we
get
our
revenues,
our
major
revenue,
streams
or
property
tax,
the
large
yellow
piece
of
the
pie,
sales,
tax,
intergovernmental
revenue
and
user
fees?
The
total
of
those
for
revenue
stream
revenue
components
is
over.
Ninety
percent
of
our
revenue
budget,
some
people
like
to
see
a
picture
and
a
graph
and
some
like
to
see
a
chart.
B
These
are
the
same
things
when
you
look
at
your
PowerPoint
I
wanted
to
just
do
a
little
bit
of
breakdown
on
what
some
of
what
makes
up
some
of
these
taxes
thinking
it
might
be
helpful
to
some
of
our
users.
Taxes
are
primarily
property
on
sales
tax,
with
some
penalties
and
interest
other
taxes
that
we
collect
our
date
stamps
video
programming,
which
we
used
to
call
franchise
fees
and
rental
car
tax
general
governmental
revenues
is
broadest
base.
B
It's
a
lot
of
grants,
it's
reimbursement
for
administrative
expenses,
its
Medicaid
court
facility
fees
and
mixed
drink,
ABC
and
beer
and
wine
taxes
permit
fees.
We
have
building
permits
and
register
of
deep
fees,
and
then
sales
and
services
include
ambulances,
gel
fees,
rents,
recreation.
That
gives
you
an
idea
of
the
variety
that
we
have
in
there.
B
The
other
revenue
stream
that
we
use
is
fun
balance.
It's
it's
just
a
source
that
we
used
to
balance
our
budget,
because
we
know
that
there's
a
really
good
chance
that
we're
going
to
have
savings
every
year.
We
don't
know
whether,
where
we'll
find
those
savings,
but
we
do
know
going
into
the
year
that
if
we
can
find
savings,
we
can
keep
the
tax
rate
down
by
using
a
fund
balance
appropriation.
We've
budgeted
fund
balance
each
of
the
22
budgets.
B
I've
helped
develop
with
the
exception
of
one
year,
which
was
the
second
year
of
a
governor's
cut
in
the
2001-2002
recession.
We
saved
the
appropriated,
fun
balance
and
we
will
say
that
appropriation
for
2015
the
2016
budget
includes
the
fund
balance
appropriation
of
nine
million
four
hundred
and
three
dollars,
and
every
year
I
stand
here
and
I'll
tell
you
I'll
do
my
best
to
save
it.
I'm
telling
you
again,
I'll
do
my
best
to
save
it
and
I'll
start
those
savings
on
July
the
first.
B
Let's
talk
a
little
bit
about
our
expenditures.
We
have
over
250,000
citizens
and
we
serve
each
of
them
at
least
once
each
year,
a
lot
of
them.
We
see
many
more
times
than
that,
but
in
the
course
of
the
year
we
will
touch
a
million
citizens
and
with
the
services
that
we
provide
and
often
we're,
making
a
huge
difference
in
their
lives
because
they're
in
a
challenging
time
and
having
the
service
that
we
provide
really
does
touch
their
life
and
starts
to
move
it
in
a
different
direction.
B
If
we
look
at
the
breakdown
of
what's
in
those
components
in
public
safety,
we
have
patrol
and
investigation,
detention,
emergency
services
permits
and
inspections,
and
we
have
general
services.
We
have
1.8
million
square
feet
and
more
than
half
of
that's
dedicated
to
public
safety.
I
mean
human
service
perspective.
We
have
public
health,
clinical
services
in
Commandant's,
Dalton,
Child,
Protective,
Services
and
other
assistance
programs,
education,
we've
heard
from
my
units
of
Education
tonight.
B
The
three
these
are
ones
that
just
really
don't
fit
anywhere
else,
whether
its
tax,
it's
a
elections,
register
deeds
in
the
governing
body
county
manager.
So
we
just
call
those
general
government.
We
have
some
support
services
because
we
offer
centralized
services
for
all
of
our
departments
and
that's
Human,
Resources
finance,
budget
and
management
services
and
information
technology.
B
So,
as
you
hear
us
talk
about
our
departments,
those
are
the
key
departments
that
we
have.
If
you
look
at
our
general
fund,
expenditures
by
tap
salary
and
benefits
makes
up
thirty-nine
percent
of
our
budget
operating,
which
can
be
anything
from
supplies
to
telephones,
to
gel
medical,
cert
contracts.
Makeup,
fifteen
percent
of
our
budget
program
support
or
things
like
education,
anything
from
education
to
emergency
assistant,
to
foster
care.
These
are
monies
that
flow
out
of
the
county.
We
don't.
B
B
When
you
look
at
what
drives
our
budget
until
is
core
services,
those
are
the
mandated
services
and
that's
eighty
seven
and
a
half
percent
of
our
budget
general
government.
If
you
look
with
it
being
registered
deeds,
elections
and
taxes
also
fairly
much
a
mandated
certain
set
of
mandated
services
to.
We
do
have
some
new
costs
included
in
this
budget.
B
These
are
incorporated
into
the
budget
already
and
there's
11
of
these
new
costs
and
they
range
from
it's
time
to
pay
incentives
to
Linamar
to
new
investments
for
things
from
domestic
violence,
to
affordable
housing
to
a
part
of
grant
match.
Those
new
totals
that
we
have
included
in
total
7.9
million
dollars.
6.2
of
that
is
recurring
costs.
Those
are,
and
all
of
these
are
already
incorporated
into
our
budget.
B
If
we
look
at
education,
one
of
the
things
we've
heard
from
our
are
three
educational
units
this
afternoon
and
one
I
have
already
incorporated
into
education.
Expenditures
are
the
new
debt
service
amounts
and
middle
school
and
Isaac
Dixon,
or
both
funds
that
are
being
through
the
general
fund.
So
those
are
already
included
here.
I
would
like
to
point
out
to
you
that
while
it
doesn't
set
an
education
budget,
it
sets
in
public
safety
and
human
services.
We
also
invest
another
3.7
million
dollars
and
school
nurses,
SROs
and
school
social
workers.
B
So
there's
the
investment,
education
and
several
of
our
departments,
I
want
to
just
say
I'm,
sorry,
that
the
other
three
educators
are
gone
because
we've
had
it.
We
have
a
really
great
working
relationship.
We
always
make
sure
one
another's
not
caught
off
guard.
We
try
to
meet
on
a
regular
basis
so
that
we
know
what's
happening
and
one
of
the
things
you'll
find
in
the
coming
weeks
says
as
we
scrub
the
state
budget
and
we
begin
to
see
it.
B
B
Its
measured,
really
longitudinally,
and
so
all
of
these
services
have
a
big
impact
on
our
community.
You
just
can't
measure
today
the
service
provided
today
we
can
touch
on
our
debt
service
fact
by
by
function.
I
mentioned
that
in
the
general
fund,
our
budget,
seven
percent
of
that
of
the
general
fund,
but
I-
wanted
to
show
you
how
the
debt
service
has
changed
in
all
funds
out
between
the
two
years
in
1582
percent
of
our
budget
was
for
our
debt
service
budget
was
for
education
on
public
safety
and
in
16
it's
eighty-four
percent.
B
For
those
two
pieces.
We
will
see
that
change
a
little
in
a
couple
of
years
when
we
bring
Cox
on
board
on
board
for
debt,
sir,
we
are
doing
capitalized
interest
on
that.
If
you
take
a
look,
our
assets
between
education
and
Counting,
the
assets
just
the
ones
from
schools
that
we've
actually
financed,
have
grown
from
785
million
2
1,000,000,000
389
1
million
389
million
dollars.
But
if
you
look
at
our
ratio
and
I'm
having
to
use
the
this
year's
ratio,
that's
the
debt
to
asset
ratio
is
about
thirty-seven
point,
two
percent.
B
This
is
one
of
my
favorite
slides
and
probably
makes
very
little
sense
for
a
lot
of
people.
But
overall
last
year
stood
here-
and
I
said
to
you-
we
had
80
point
seven
percent
of
our
debt
at
under
four
percent
fixed
interest
rate.
Well,
I'm
really
happy
to
stand
here
today
and
tell
you
that,
with
what
we
borrowed
in
our
refinancing,
we're
now
at
90.1
percent
under
four
percent,
fixed
I-
think
that's
pretty
phenomenal.
We
do
have
some.
B
If
you
look
at
the
remaining
nine
percent,
we've
got
some
call
issues,
but
we
will
watch
those
and
try
to
bring
those
under
because
as
quickly
as
we
can,
but
you
can't
call
debt
except
for
certain
periods.
Here's
chairman
gentz
favorite
slide
on
a
two-hundred-thousand-dollar
house,
where
the
equivalent
of
a
74
thousand
five
hundred
dollar
mortgage.
That's.
B
Is
this
is
also
it's
a
simple
way
to
show
people
where
we
stand
and
the
bond
rating
agencies
actually
like
that,
like
this
very
well
as
always
the
budgets
of
plan,
and
we
make
the
best
assumptions
we
can
make
about
the
future.
Some
of
the
things
that
we're
watching
are
the
main
thing
is
the
state
budget.
We
did
hear
some
good
reports
today
that
maybe
the
drivers
ad
would
be
fun
well
will
be
funded.
B
We
also
hear
that
the
sales
tax
which
I've
worried
about
a
lot
for
several
weeks,
will
not
be
what
not
be
a
negative
impact
for
Buncombe
County.
That
will
continue
to
watch
the
progress
on
the
state
budget
and
see
see
where
we
end
up,
but
I'm
feeling
much
better
about
today
than
I
did
actually
even
yesterday,
so
that
that
part
is
very
positive
for
the
just
for
your
record
and
so
that
you
have
it.
I
do
want
in
case
once
they
start
bringing
up
a
topic
at
some
point
in
time.
B
You
may
see
that
topic
again.
I
do
want
you
to
have
this
chart,
so
you
can
see
the
different
articles
of
sales
tax,
how
much
they
are,
how
long
they've
been
around
and
how
they
have
to
be
shared
I.
Think
it's
just
a
good
reference
document
going
forward
the
one
sales
tax.
That's
on
there,
that
we
don't
have
its
article
43,
which
is
used
primarily
for
transit.
It
is
something
that
floated
in
some
of
the
initial
discussions
to
say
that
they
would
give
County
some
flexibility
with
that.
B
So
we
will
watch
that
as
we
go
through
the
budget
to
see
if
they're
going
to
add
that
it's
house
built
five
achtein.
It
doesn't
have
two
passes
that
bill,
but
it
can
just
be
changed
in
the
budget,
but
do
want
you
to
understand
that
that
is
there
and
a
possibility
before
the
session
is
over.
We
are
hearing
session
may
last
well
into
the
fall
few
people
I
do
want
to
thank
before
we
talk
about
the
public
hearing
Diane
prize
autumn
waters.
B
I
want
to
thank
Blair
to
Blair's,
not
here,
but
these
two,
ladies
and
if
they
just
stand
up,
they
do
a
phenomenal
job
with
the
budget.
It
gives
me
the
luxury
of
coming
in
at
the
end
of
februari.
First
March,
then
what
have
we
got
and
they've
already
got
it
mostly
together
and
they're
actually
doing
this,
the
betting
it
was
the
department's.
They
do.
A
wonderful
job
and
I
really
appreciate
it,
and
thank
you
buzz.
B
We
have
to
required
to
have
a
public
hearing
on
the
budget.
We
have
that
scheduled
for
June,
the
second
at
four-thirty
we
will
between
now
and
the
time
we
adopt
the
budget
on
the
sixteenth
of
june
I'll
look
forward
to
your
input
as
on
all
the
things
that
you've
heard
tonight,
so
that
we
can
actually
get
a
more
solid
budget
and
see
what
the
state
really
does.
It's
not
happy
to
answer
any
questions
you
have.
I
know
I
went
through
that
pretty
fast.
C
B
C
D
C
B
There
is
the
art
numbers,
yet
they've
only
been
open,
three
or
four
weeks
and
they'll
have
to
see
the
first
couple
of
reports
go
in
from
them
to
the
state
and
just
have
some
idea
based
on
having
been
there.
I
can
tell
you,
I
think,
they're
doing
pretty
well,
but
we'll
see
ya,
see
how
it
how
that
goes.
I
don't
know
if
anybody's
got
a
projection
on
that
right
now,
but.
C
B
Should
see
that
in
about
two
years
based
I
want
to
or
at
least
a
portion
of
it,
and
we
do
work
in
progress
so
once
you
start
pull
your
permit
and
start
building
a
one
in
January
of
every
year,
we'll
look
at
how
how
far
you've
completed
it
and
will
we
will
assess
based
on
the
level
of
the
percentage
of
completion.
What's.
A
B
A
Thank
you
anything
else.
Okay,
thank
you,
dr.
free,
our
remaining
issues.
I
want
to
thank
again,
diego
for
being
here
the
whole
time
he
SAT
through
the
whole
thing,
and
we
are
mighty
glad
to
have
you
in
our
community.
Thank
you
for
being
here.
Can
we
get
a
shot
of
him?
You
know
I,
think
that's
great.
Yes,
ma'am.
C
F
E
F
F
F
I'm
I'm,
the
kid
that's
true,
I'm
doing
my
best,
you
stand
stranger
I'm
they
can
in
sunday
school
class
and
the
one
in
charge
always
remember
that
was
emblem
was
hurt,
I'm
at
the
symphony,
the
circus
and
the
library
I'm,
even
on
the
track
and
field
getting
ready
to
run
the
race
as
I
grow
along
for
me,
I'm
the
latest
Intel.
Just
glad
to
be
me.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
A
F
A
A
E
A
A
This
will
be
prior
to
our
4
30
meeting,
which
is
our
next
regular
meeting
of
the
board
of
commissioners
at
room
326
at
200,
College
Street
in
downtown
Asheville,
and
that
will
include
the
public
hearing
on
the
2016
budget
and
we
will
also
be
holding
a
ribbon
cutting
for
the
charters
of
freedom,
Monument
that
was
graciously
donated
to
us
on
Monday
May
25
at
four-thirty
or
at
the
conclusion
of
the
city
pack
square
memorial
day
ceremony.
If
it's
at
4
30
at
the
latest,
it
could
be
before
that
depends
on.
A
When
the
brother
ceremony
gets
finished.
We
are
very
fortunate
to
have
that
totally
donated
and
we
were
mighty
appreciative
of
Vance
Patterson
for
doing
so,
and
he
will
be
here
and
was
we
officially
dedicate
the
US
Constitution,
the
Bill
of
Rights
US
Constitution,
the
Declaration
of
Independence
and
the
bill
rights
bill
o
rights
by
the
way
north
carolina
insisted
on
that
being
part
of
our
Constitution
little
history.
We
demanded
it
and
they
put
it
in
after
we
demanded
said
we
wouldn't
sign
the
constitution
of
the
Declaration.
Otherwise,
some.