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4 <br />applied by the iJepartment of Health and Human Services to determine the sufficiency, <br />equity and efficiency of each formula, assuring that formulas fairly respond to the needs <br />of all counties. <br />~. Smoking Regulations Support legislation to allow Boards of Public Health, upon <br />request of Boards of County Commissioners, to adapt a rule or regulation regulating <br />smoking in places of public accommodation., <br />~~See also Item #.~~' of grange County's Legislative .Matters <br />Resolutions <br />In~er~ovenmental Re(a~~ons <br />1. ~`ranspor~ation Funding appose legislation shifting the state's existing responsibility <br />for funding transportation construction and maintenance projects to county governments. <br />See also Item #.~7 of Change County's Legislative Matters <br />~esolutian~ <br />~, Modernize Annexation Laws ~ Support legislation modernizing the annexation laws as <br />follows: <br />~ Requiring the development of joint utility service plans for urbanizing areas; <br />~ R.equiring cities to reimburse counties for the loss of sales tax due to an <br />annexation <br />d increasing the degree of urbanization required to annex property; <br />~ Requiring a referendum on proposed involuntary annexations in areas where <br />public services ~-water and sewer and solid waste ~-are already in place; and <br />~ Requiring the direct provision of municipal .water and sewer services to <br />customers within three years of an annexation. <br />~ Providing that counties have the option of continuing to provide utilities to <br />annexed areas. <br />~ Setting the effective date for involuntary annexations to be June 34 following the <br />date of adoption or final resolution of an appeal. <br />[Iran a Coun believes many of the issues that arise during the <br />g ~ <br />annexation process Gourd be reduced or eliminated if state law <br />encouraged or rewired the implementation of long-range <br />tannin a regiments between towns and counties. <br />p gg <br />3. Collective Bargaining for Public Employees -Oppose legislation authorizing local <br />governments to enter into collective bargaining agreements with public employees, or <br />mandating dues check-off programs. <br />Oran a Coup neither su parts nor opposes this position, <br />g ~' p <br />4. Workers' Compensation Reform Support legislation to reform forth Carolina's <br />workers' Compensation system to reduce disability findings and open-ended streams of <br />payment, to address the trend in favor of lang~term disability Endings, to diminish <br />. control over these findings on the part of claimants and their legal representatives, and to <br />curtail adoption of rules that limit return-to~work efforts. <br />~lrange County neither supports nor apposes this position. <br />