Orange County’s Proposed $3.9B Budget Would Pay For More Deputies, Firefighters
• Commissioners will work through a $3.96 billion budget proposal for Orange County for the 2017-2018 fiscal year.
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• Commissioners will work through a $3.96 billion budget proposal for Orange County for the 2017-2018 fiscal year.
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• A new ordinance will change how and where public and charter schools are built in fast growing Orange County. The rules were approved Tuesday by the County Board of Commissioners.
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• Betsy VanderLey and Emily Bonilla will have a say in what happens at the county level for four years for Districts 1 and 5 respectively. Both women took oath at the Orange County Board of County Commissioners’ swearing in ceremony Tuesday morning at the Orange County Convention Center.
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• Orange County commissioners will have an extra $21.7 million to spend this fiscal year thanks to excess revenue, $3.2 million more than last year. Tax Collector Scott Randolph attributes the cash hike to higher property values during the 2015-2016 fiscal year. He is asking commissioners to put some of the money toward getting air conditioning at the county’s animal shelter.
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• A renaissance of urban egg farming across the country has Orange County leaders considering whether to allow residents to raise backyard chickens. The board of commissioners will talk about it at their meeting Tuesday.
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• Orange County commissioners will hear from residents this afternoon before voting on a proposal aimed at protecting children in and around day care centers. The proposed ordinance is in response to a car collision in 2014 that left a four-year-old dead and others injured.
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• Orange County commissioners will hear an appeal today from school district officials and residents to deny a developer’s proposal to build two charter schools in the Avalon Park planned community.
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