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<br />s <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No q..e <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT ~ <br />Meeting Date: March 17, 1998 <br />SUBJECT: Farmland Preservation Goals <br />-------------------------------- ------------------------------- <br />DEPARTMENT County Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING YES NO x <br />-------------------------------- ------------------------------- <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT: _YES NO <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT <br />Commissioner Bill Crowther <br />Memo dated February 10, 1998 TELEPHONE NUMBER <br />Re: Goals for 1998-99 Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Mebane 227-2031 <br />Durham .688-7331 <br />----------------------------------------------------------------------- <br />PURPOSE: To consider the Farmland Preservation Program goals and to <br />provide staff with direction on any of the five recommendations. <br />BACKGROUND: Dolly Hunter, Chair of the Agricultural Districts Advisory <br />Board gave a report to the Board of County Commissioners on February <br />10. She listed five recommendations which they feel will help to <br />preserve Orange County farms. Recommendation #~3 "Additional tax relief <br />measures should be adopted that can help improve the financial position <br />of farmers" would require a letter to our Legislative Delegation asking <br />them to consider legislation which would eliminate payment of deferred <br />taxes when farmland is sold for continued agricultural use. <br />1 <br />RECOMMENDATION: Review and discuss all five reconanendations and give <br />specific direction to staff. <br />