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NORTH CAROLINA
RESOLUTION REGARDING
ORANGE COUNTY LEGISLATIVE MATTERS
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of Orange County
that the Board hereby requests the Senators and Representatives
representing Orange County to -introduce and support the following
legislative matters:
1. AN ACT ADDING ALAMANCE, CASWELL AND PERSON COUNTIES TO
THOSE COUNTIES AUTHORIZED BY CHAPTER 357 OF THE 1985 SESSION LAWS
OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA TO ESTABLISH THE
BOUNDARIES BETWEEN AND AMONG THEM BY THE USE OF ORTHOPHOTOGRAPHY
(Exhibit A to this Resolution) .
2 . AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE ORANGE COUNTY TO PROVIDE NOTICE OF
ZONING REGULATION AND ZONING BOUNDARY CHANGES BY FIRST CLASS MAIL
(Exhibit B to this Resolution) .
3 . AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE ORANGE COUNTY TO ENFORCE ITS
ORDINANCES BY ALTERNATIVE REMEDIES AUTHORIZED BY LAW (Exhibit C to
this Resolution) .
4 . AN ACT ADDING SEXUAL ORIENTATION TO THOSE CLASSIFICATIONS
AUTHORIZED TO BE PROTECTED BY AN ORANGE COUNTY CIVIL RIGHTS
ORDINANCE (Exhibit D to this Resolution) .
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners of
Orange County requests its legislative delegation to support:
1. legislation which would authorize counties not to collect
tax bills for property valued under $300;
2 . legislation which would authorize municipalities,
• counties, or special entities to use special obligation bond
proceeds for landfill site acquisition,
3 . additional state funding for facilities and services to
• the developmentally disabled, severally mentally ill, children with
mental disabilities, and to those in need of alcohol and drug abuse
treatment in accordance with the State's long range plans and to
end reliance on county general fund sources for specialized and
individual treatment programs needed for treatment of persons in
the groups listed because of the lack of State funding and State
facilities needed to accomplish the State's long range plans;
4 . limiting county responsibility in the area of inmate
medical care in accordance with the initiative of the Association
of County Commissioners .
Upon motion of Commissioner Gordon , seconded by
Commissioner Halkiotis the foregoing resolution was
adopted this the 8th day of March , 1995 .
• I► Beverly Blythe,Bl Bl he Clerk to the Board of Commissioners for the
County of Orange, North Carolina,- DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the
foregoing is a true copy of so much of the proceedings of said
Board at a meeting held on March 8, 1995 as relates
in any way to the adoption of the foregoing and that said
proceedings are recorded in Minute Book No. of the minutes of
said Board.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said County, this 15th day of
March 1995 .
►
Clerk to the rd of Commis oners
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