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6 <br />NORTH CAROLINA <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />RESOLUTION REGARDING <br />LEGISLATIVE MATTERS <br />BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of Orange <br />County that the Board hereby requests the Senators and <br />Representatives representing Orange County to support the North <br />Carolina Association of County Commissioners in its opposition to <br />the following legislative matters: <br />1. House Bill 499. This bill would make Orange County's <br />land records data base available for reuse and for profit, at <br />practically no cost, to real estate trade associations and their <br />members. Orange County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the Orange <br />Water and Sewer Authority have spent a considerable amount of <br />public money developing a land records system for public <br />purposes. The public should be paid for the sale of this <br />information to persons or organizations who or which would use it <br />for private purposes and resell it for profit. <br />2. Senate Bill 799. This bill would make public "serious <br />disciplinary actions" now maintained confidentially in the <br />personnel files of local government employees. It also would <br />make public the entirety of a local government employee's <br />personnel file "once two serious disciplinary actions have been <br />imposed." This bill provides no opportunity for the balancing of <br />the public interest with the employee privacy interest before the <br />release of the personnel file information. This balancing <br />process is required under present law. <br />1 <br />