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BOOK iU( [,,GE shared services grant, which she thought was $40,000 and did not know if we had gotten another. Joyce Johnston -Carlson, Director, Human Services, confirmed that there is another $40,000 grant which is already budgeted and there will be another $40,000 grant next year. Out of that comes the salary of a staffperson who works with the School Board as mediator. It also pays for printing costs of the 3 year report. She believed that could not be changed. Commissioner Ginn thought the revenue-sharing may be down and this will be a very tight budget year. She felt the asset mapping was the key to accountability and needed to come out of the $500,000 budget. Commissioner Adams thought it was still possible to do that since no matter what the amount would be, there will be more requests than there is money, which is normal. She thought there was still plenty of time. Commissioner Ginn thought it needed to be clear so a certain amount could be held back for the study. It was difficult for them to proceed without the asset mapping and she thought it very important the Board send the signal that if they are going to require studies, now or in the future, that the funding must come out of their budget. Commissioner Adams pointed out that this request was to release the RFP. Chairman Macht believed that it was not necessarily true they would be overwhelmed with requests. The Commission's directive to the committee was to work first on prevention and un -met needs. Un -met needs indicates that there is probably not an organization established or sufficiently funded to take care of the un -met or under -met needs. The grants committee will work very carefully in allocating money and he suspected that in the final analysis there would have to be some outreach to develop a server. So the normal weeding - out process would take care of keeping the dollars within the budgeted amount. Commissioner Ginn thought she was looking for a policy decision that any studies needed to come out of the millage allocated to the CSAC. Chairman Macht felt that might be referred back to the committee for the Board's ultimate decision. Commissioner Ginn MOVED that any request for studies will come out of the millage allocated to the Children's Services Advisory Committee budget. Chairman Macht ruled the motion DIED for lack of a second and called for another motion. _ APRIL 139 1999 26