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2 <br />Taxation and Finance <br />1. Motor Vehicle Property Taxes — Support continued appropriations from the Combined <br />Motor Vehicle and Registration Account to ensure that the previously ratified motor <br />vehicle taxation legislation is implemented according to the existing timetable and <br />without any additional delay. <br />2. Impact Analysis — Support efforts to analyze the fiscal impacts of tax relief programs <br />and exemptions enacted by the General Assembly to provide transparency on a county - <br />by- county basis with respect to the local effects of such tax breaks. <br />3. Definition of Charity — Support legislation to clarify the definition of "charity" for <br />hospitals, including facilities financed through bonds issued by the Medical Care <br />Commission, and continuing care facilities, and require that any property valuation <br />exclusion formula provide for a higher test of "charity," to include a calculation of the <br />cost of non - reimbursed care delivered. <br />4. Manufactured Home Taxes — Support legislation to require all taxes levied on a <br />manufactured home to be paid before the home may be moved, repossessed or sold on- <br />site. <br />5. Central Listing and Assessing of Cellular and Cable Companies — Support legislation <br />to centrally list and assess cellular companies and cable companies as public service <br />companies. <br />6. Reimbursement, In Rem Foreclosures — Support an increase in the reimbursement rate <br />for local government collection efforts related to in rem foreclosures. <br />Environment <br />1. Water and Sewer Infrastructure — (a) Support legislation providing the necessary <br />capital for the maintenance, upgrade, installation and expansion of public water, sewer <br />and stormwater infrastructure, with encouragement for water reclamation facilities; and <br />(b) seek legislation to create a study of the rules and procedures for evaluating the <br />available capacity of pump stations. <br />2. Funds for Regional Water Resource Management — Support funding for regional <br />councils to develop and implement multi jurisdictional water resource management <br />planning and programs in every region through the cooperation of local governments, <br />water users, and other stakeholders. <br />3. Private Well Testing — Seek legislation limiting state mandated contaminant testing of <br />private wells to naturally occurring chemicals, and authorizing local control over well <br />testing for named petroleum -based pollutants. <br />4. Water Capacity/Reservoirs — Seek legislation to streamline the permitting of local <br />water supply reservoirs without sacrificing the scientific rigor of Environmental Impact <br />Assessment and the opportunity for public comment. <br />5. Yard Waste Facilities — Seek legislation clarifying that runoff from yard waste staging <br />areas at county landfills does not require wastewater treatment. <br />6. Watershed Pollution Rules — Seek legislation eliminating required retrofitting by <br />counties of existing development under rules impacting nutrient levels in existing <br />watersheds. <br />(See also Item #18 of Orange County's Legislative Matters <br />Resolution) — As Stage I Adaptive Management begins in 2010, <br />and the stakeholders await the 2014 technical report on water <br />quality that may trigger additional nutrient reduction steps, <br />Orange County continues to note its longstanding watershed <br />protection efforts in this watershed prior to the 2001 baseline. <br />The County requests that members of the North Carolina <br />