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4 <br /> Commissioner Willhoit to approve the resolution of support for the <br /> community colleges that serve Orange County as stated below: <br /> WHEREAS, community colleges in North Carolina should continue to <br /> provide the adult basic education and literacy training <br /> needed to ensure that North Carolina adults gain the skills, <br /> beyond reading and writing, which will qualify them to enter <br /> technical, vocational, or college transfer programs or <br /> succeed in the labor market; and <br /> WHEREAS, the community college system should expand its capacity for <br /> providing customized skills and supervisory training for <br /> businesses; <br /> NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Orange County Board of <br /> Commissioners, in support of Durham Technical Community <br /> College, Alamance Community College and Piedmont Technical <br /> Community College endorses their efforts to provide the <br /> training resources most appropriate in meeting the needs of <br /> our citizens. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> B. RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE STATE'S LAND RECORDS MANAGEMENT <br /> PROGRAM <br /> Motion was made by Commissioner Halkiotis, seconded by <br /> Commissioner Gordon to approve the Resolution in Support of the State's <br /> Land Records Management Program as stated below: <br /> RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF STATE'S LAND RECORDS <br /> MANAGEMENT PROGRAM <br /> WHEREAS, the State's Land Records Management Program (LRMP) was <br /> founded by the General Assembly in 1978, to provide technical <br /> assistance and matching grant funds to counties so that they <br /> could modernize their land records; and <br /> WHEREAS, for thirteen years the LRMP, now located in the State <br /> Department of Environment Health & Natural Resources (EHNR) , <br /> has provided vital and necessary technical assistance to the <br /> counties, including Orange, such as the establishment of <br /> standards for maps provided by private vendors; and, <br /> WHEREAS, the matching grant funds have provided Orange with an on- <br /> going important supplement to its own resources in obtaining <br /> new base and digital maps for our citizens; and, <br /> WHEREAS, EHNR and the Governor have proposed that this needed program <br /> not be included in the State Budget for 1991-92, thus <br /> terminating the program; and, <br /> WHEREAS, it is recognized by Orange County and the North Carolina <br /> Association of County Commissioners that this program is <br /> still needed to protect the counties' investments in maps and <br /> geographic information systems; <br /> THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />