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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
RESOLUTION ACKNOWLEDGING THE RESULTS FROM THE 2010 CENSUS
INDICATING ORANGE COUNTY REMAINS IN LAWFUL COMPLIANCE WITH
APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS FOR BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS'
NOMINATING DISTRICTS
WHEREAS, in 2005 and 2006 following a petition by Orange County residents to change the manner
of nominating Orange County Commissioners, Orange County began the process of creating nominating
districts for Orange County Commissioner elections; and
WHEREAS, in 2008 the first election was held in which the nominating districts were utilized; and
WHEREAS, North Carolina General Statute 153A-22 states in pertinent part that in a county where
commissioners are nominated or elected by district, the Board of Commissioners "may find as a fact
whether there is substantial inequality"; and
WHEREAS, State and Federal law require redistricting after each census when there is a finding of
such substantial inequality; and
WHEREAS, subsequent to the 2010 census Orange County staff examined the results of the census for
Orange County in its entirety and also for both nominating districts; and
WHEREAS, case law has established that where there is a ten percent (10%) discrepancy between the
smallest (by population) and largest districts that there then as a matter of law exists substantial
inequality and there must be a redistricting; and
WHEREAS, Orange County staff has determined the discrepancy between and among the
commissioner nominating districts of Orange County is within the ten percent (10%) legal threshold and
that as a matter of law there is no substantial inequality;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Orange County Board of County Commissioners,
pursuant to North Carolina General Statute 153A-22, finds as a fact that there is no substantial inequality
between or among the commissioner nominating districts of Orange County.
This the 7~' day of June, 2011.
Bernadette Pelissier, Chair
Orange County Board of Commissioners
Attest:
Donna Baker
Clerk to the Board of Commissioners