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15 <br />Representatives Hackney and Insko <br />Senators Kinnaird and Lee <br />Page 3 <br />March 18, 1997 <br />ABC Board for a more equitable funding of the State Alcoholic <br />Beverage Control Commission. The vast majority of the State <br />Commission's work load relates to beer and wine oversight. The <br />vast majority of the revenue used to operate the State ABC <br />Commission comes from excise taxes on spirituous liquor. The <br />redistribution of the revenue for this purpose will be a direct <br />benefit to Orange County. The net proceeds of the ABC operation <br />come to the County's general fund. <br />Orange County received information from the Conservation <br />Trust for North Carolina in support of bills which will increase <br />the State income tax credit available to property owners donating <br />land or donating conservation easements in land for conservation <br />purposes. Senator Kinnaird is one of the Senate sponsors of this <br />legislation. Orange County supports this legislation. <br />Conserving farmland and other open space is an important goal of <br />Orange County. County policies and land use ordinances encourage <br />the conservation of open space and offer development <br />opportunities for land owners that build open space conservation <br />into their development plans. Increasing the State income tax <br />credit for land donated for conservation purposes will help <br />Orange County achieve its open space and farmland preservation <br />goals. <br />Thank you for your help in introducing the local legislation <br />requested in this letter and your support of it as it moves <br />through the legislative process. Thank you also for your support <br />of the Statewide legislative initiatives which are included in <br />one of the enclosed Resolutions. I am ready and willing to help <br />in any way that I can in the legislative process. Please call on <br />me if I can help. <br />Very truly yours, <br />COLEMAN, <br />ILL & HARGRAVE, P.C. <br />11 <br />GEG/lsg ~ ~~ <br />Enclosures <br />xc: Bill Crowther, Chair <br />Margaret Brown <br />Moses Carey, Jr. <br />Alice Gordon <br />Stephen Halkiotis <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />John M. Link, Jr., Orange County Manager <br />Michael B. Brough, Carrboro and Hillsborough <br />Ralph D. Karpinos, Chapel Hill Attorney <br />Attorney <br />