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AREAS OF .SUPPORT
E-911 Funds - Orange County appreciate s past efforts and
supports future initiatives to expand the uses for these funds
within the public safety disciplines related to emergency
communications and Emergency Medical Services.
* Mental
Health - Orange County supports stable and secure
funding for mental illness, development disabilities, and.
substance abuse treatment systems Statewide, and especially
supports efforts and funds to enhance community-based
initiatives.
Land, Water and Agricultural Preservation Funding - Orange
County supports the safeguarding of Park, Agricultural
Preservation, Clean Water and other existing trust funds
established for the protection of the State's land, water,
agriculture,. and special places before they are irreversibly
lost.
* Agriculture - Support Conservation of Working Lands and
Farmland Preservation - Orange County supports a conservation
option under the Use Value Program and a revision to the revenue
and acreage requirements of the Use Value Program to address
operations that meet the revenue requirements, but do not meet
the minimum ten acres threshold for agricultural operations.
Sustainable Communities - Orange County appreciates efforts
during the 2010 General Assembly Session to establish the North
Carolina Sustainable Communities-Task Force and associated Grant
Fund and supports future efforts to move these initiatives
forward.
* This item generally coincides with a similar North Carolina Association of
County Commissioners (NCACC) 2011-12 Legislative Goal.
Approved unanimously at February 1, 2011 Board of Commissioners
Meeting