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a dedication ceremony for the home. There has been a lot of creative fundraising throughout the community. He said that classrooms across the County used the Habitat curriculum to make students aware of the important issue of affordable housing. Caroline Compton is a fourth grader from Hillsborough Elementary and she read an essay about her work with this project. She said that Habitat helps people that are living in unsafe or unaffordable housing that may have no water or heat. She spoke about the seriousness of poverty. She said that the whole fourth grade at Hillsborough Elementary raised money for Habitat for Humanity. There was a basketball game with moms playing and dads cheerleading for the school. There will also be a movie night for fourth and fifth graders to watch the Pursuit of Happiness. The goal is for each classroom to raise $100, totaling $2,000. The school has raised over$3,000 with all of the events. They will still work to encourage the community to participate in Hands for Habitat. Brian Voyce said that during the last municipal election in Carrboro he supported Carrboro ETJ efforts to the release from the interference of urban planning of rural land uses. He said that this was labeled as a publicity stunt. He said that it is not a publicity stunt and it is a real issue. The underlying issue is important. He said that seeking fairness in government is never a publicity stunt. He said that he had nothing to gain from supporting the ETJ landowners and farmers in this County. For financial transparency purposes, he stated that he does not make any money off real estate development and his only real estate interest in this County is his home. He said that the County has developed a problem in that excess nutrients flow off the southern urban County land into the Jordan Lake watershed. He said that Carrboro has elected to handle this issue by trading off undeveloped ETJ land and the uses of ETJ land for land within its OWASA service urban boundary. He asked about social justice and said that there is no social justice in having rural land use by farmers governed by an urban authority and not a rural authority. Also, the farmers and landowners in this area cannot vote for those controlling their rural land use rights. He said that rural land use in a municipal ETJ should be governed by the County and urban land use in a municipal ETJ should be governed by the Town. He asked the County Commissioners to please listen to the farmers that follow him in speaking. Steven Crabtree presented a petition to remand Carrboro's ETJ Over Rural Properties to Orange County. He read the petition: Petition to Remand Carrboro's Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction Over Rural Properties to Orange County To: The Town of Carrboro, North Carolina Att: Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton and Board of Aldermen Carrboro Town Manager Steve Stewart Chairperson Valerie Foushee and Orange County Board of Commissioners From: The undersigned farm and land owners of Carrboro's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) Date: October 27, 2009 Dear Sirs and Madams, We, the undersigned rural farm and landowners who reside within and about Carrboro's ETJ, and particularly those of us who reside within Carrboro's ETJ and its Watershed Residential zone, hereby require and respectfully request that the Town of Carrboro relinquish control over ETJ and land and return development jurisdiction for it to Orange County government as soon