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~`~ Orange County, in toll-free calling plans for the Triangle area, and ~ 1 d 1 t WHEREAS, a substantial portion of Orange County s industria eve opmen land in our economic development plan is served entirely by Mebane Home Telephone, and our recruitment efforts quite _ naturally focus on development complimentary with that ~~~~ occurring throughout Orange, Durham and Wake, the Research Triangle counties, and WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners addresses regional issues through strong involvement with the Triangle J Council of Governments, NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board expresses most strongly to the North Carolina Utilities Commission its full support of the positions posed by the Triangle J Council of Governments in this matter, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board asks the North Carolina Utilities Commission to maintain its position as to the inclusion of part r or all of the Mebane exchange in this matter, including parti- cipation in the experimental plans the Commission has ordered, and further, urges the Commission to consider favorably Triangle J's Third Motion to Amend which would add service between Mebane and RTP-RDU and between Hillsborough and RDU to the Commission's experimental service plan, BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Board conveys to the North Carolina Utili- ties Commission its sense of urgency in this matter and requests that the Commission proceed with all due speed toward the goal of toll-free calling throughout the Triangle area. VOTE: UNANIMOUS. E. REPORTS 1. MASTER RECREATION AND PARK PLAN Recreation and Parks Advisory Council member Richard Ward presented: on behalf of the Council three recommendations: (1) the Plan be adopted as presented at the last public hearing on May 2, 1988 (with the greenways element deleted) as a planning tool for the Recreation and Parks Department, (2) Chapters 1 - 6 of the Plan which contain the basic planning elements be adopted as the Recreation and Parks Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan, and _ (3) Chapter 7 of the. Plan be utilized in formulating funding requests for five-year capital improvement planning periods, beginning FY 88-89. Revisions to the funding request for the first five-year period were also recommended. He stated that the Council supports all efforts for the educational needs of the County but asked that no one lose site of the fact that the children in the County spend the majority of their time outside of the classroom. Opportunities that are healthy, safe and wholesome need to be provided to the children of Orange County. Implementation of the Plan beyond the first five-year planning period is to be based on annual review of the Plan's recommendations and reexamination of population demand and changing demographics. The report as presented in the agenda is stated below: The Orange County Recreation and parks Master Plan is a document which can "stand alone" as a planning tool far the Recreation and Parks Department. The Plan is composed of two components: planning principles (Chapter 1-5) financial/funding data (Chapter 7)