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DRAFT <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF CONA~IISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: <br />SUBJECT: Resolution Requesting Consideration of a Property Tax <br />Discount for the Elderly <br />-------------------------------- ------------------------------- <br />DEPARTMENT County Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING YES NO x <br />-------------------------------- ------------------------------- <br />ATTACHMENT (S) <br />Resolution <br />Tax Deferral Chart <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT: _YES X NO <br />INFORMATION CONTACT <br />Margaret W. Brown <br />TELEPHONE NCJI~ER <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Mebane 227-2031 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />----------------------------------------------------------------------- <br />PURPOSE: To present for Board consideration a resolution for property <br />tax discounts for the elderly. <br />BACKGROUND: Buncombe County considered and approved a resolution for <br />property tax discounts for the elderly. They distributed this <br />resolution to the other 99 counties and requested that they consider <br />supporting this request. This resolution would ask the North Carolina <br />Legislature to consider allowing .elderly homeowners to defer tax <br />payments until they sell their homes or die allowing back taxes to be <br />paid from home-sale profits or the estates. There are 20 states which <br />allow this deferment for senior citizens. This resolution would also <br />request the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners to work <br />with Orange and the other 99 counties and the Legislature to formulate <br />an acceptable solution to this growing problem. <br />13 <br />RECOI~IENDATION: To approve the resolution and authorize the .Chair, County <br />Attorney and the Clerk to sign. <br />