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<br />44 <br />property to be treated with pesticides and in a manner reasonably <br />calculated to give notice to landowners adjoining the property to <br />be treated with pesticides. <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners of <br />Orange County supports: <br />1. The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners <br />in its support of the passage of a Statewide local option to <br />sales tax, (which would exempt sales of food), the proceeds of <br />~~ <br />which would be shared by counties and municipalities, be used <br />only for capital projects, be distributed on the basis of point <br />of sale, be levied only upon a local referendum which approves <br />the levy of the tax. <br />2. The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners <br />in its support of Statewide legislation to increase the <br />facilities fee and the offices fee under N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 7A- <br />304, 305 to help offset the cost to counties of providing court <br />rooms, judicial offices, facilities for the clerks of court, <br />additional court bailiffs, court facility security systems and <br />providing for probation officers in or near other court <br />facilities, the need for which has risen dramatically and will <br />_ G continue to rise dramatically. <br />3. The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners <br />~~~in its support of Statewide legislation to increase to $25,000 <br />',,_L <br />1~0'~~ both the exclusion and the income threshold to the property tax <br />Homestead Exemption; provided that the State reimburses local <br />~1' <br />`~ governments 1000 of the $8 million Statewide loss to local <br />~l governments as the result of the increase in the Homestead <br />~/"1 <br />