HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 19970107APPROVED FEBRUARY 18, 1997
MINUTES
ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
AND
ORANGE COUNTY LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION
SPECIAL MEETING
JANUARY 7. 1997
The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in Special Session with the Orange County Legislative
Delegation at 7:30 a.m. at the Sienna Hotel, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair William L. Crowther and Commissioners Margaret W.
Brown, Alice M. Gordon, Stephen H. Halkiotis and Moses Carey, Jr.
COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill
COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Managers Rod Visser
and Albert Kittrell
LEGISLATORS PRESENT: North Carolina Senator Howard Lee, North Carolina Senator Eleanor Kinnaird,
North Carolina Representative Verla Insko and North Carolina Representative Joe Hackney
The meeting started with breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Chair Crowther made opening comments. The County
Commissioners and the Legislators discussed the following items:
1. Authorization to impose an impact tax, rather than the current impact fee, for educational facilities.
2. Authorization to levy a real estate transfer tax (Statewide goal of North Carolina County
Commissioners Association)
3. Inclusion of sexual preference as a protected class in the County's human rights ordinance enabling
legislation.
4. Support of Smart Start continuation and discussion of an initiative that may be pursued by the 1997
General Assembly regarding Smart Start
5. Possibility of a local county-wide entertainment tax (originally pursued by Town of Chapel Hill in 1993)
6. Support of a statewide change in the assessment of state excise tax on beer, wine and liquor as
requested by the ABC Board
7. Legislation on verification of age, residency and citizenship for voter registration.
Discussion ensued on the above items. No decisions were made.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 a.m. The next regular meeting of the County Commissioners will
be held on Thursday, January 16, 1997 at 7:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the Government Services
Building.
William L. Crowther, Chair
Beverly A. Blythe, Clerk