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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
RESOLUTION CALLING FOR NEW FEDERAL PRIORITIES
WHEREAS, federal administration priorities and policies have led to de facto unfunded
mandates on local governments, such as:
• Demands for increased testing without sufficient funding for public education, and
• Failed energy policies that increase dependence on costly non-renewable fuels, and
• Health care policy that favors pharmaceutical and insurance industries at the expense
of employers and citizens, and
• Environmental policies that worsen air pollution and drive up health care costs, and
• Lax enforcement of job safety regulations resulting in productivity losses and
increasing health costs, and
• Mismanagement of homeland security that places increased burdens on local
governments for disaster planning and relief, and
• Failure to enforce worker rights laws and establish a meaningful minimum wage,
resulting in increased poverty and demand for increased access to local health and
human services, and
• Gutting of federal programs for low-income families that has created increased local
burdens for housing and other services, and
• The promotion and subsidy of large-scale agribusiness corporations which contribute
to the crippling of local farm economies which have traditionally been the foundation
of healthy rural live, the source for local food, and are minimally oil-dependent; and
WHEREAS, the war in Iraq is siphoning billions of dollars from the US economy and straining
the fiscal health of our federal, state, and local governments; and
WHEREAS, no-bid contracts to major corporations for reconstruction in the southeast United
States and Iraq undermine the trust of citizens in the integrity of government; and
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that the Orange County Board of Commissioners hereby
petition the Bush Administration and Congress to end the war in Iraq, re-establish a
progressive tax code, end favoritism toward corporate interests, develop responsible
policies focused on renewable energy, and commit to priorities that reflect the
common good.
This the 15`h day of November 2005
~ Moses Carey, Jr. -
Orange County Board of Commis