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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 5, 2010 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 3 - b <br />SUBJECT: Resolution Supporting the November 2, 2010 Quarter Cent Sales Tax <br />Referendum <br />DEPARTMENT: Board of County PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Commissioners <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Proposed Resolution <br />2. Resolution Calling for Referendum <br />Adopted June 15, 2010 <br />3. Resolution Regarding Planned Uses <br />of Revenues Adopted September 2, <br />2010 <br />4. Sample Ballot -November 2, 2010 <br />Election <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Valerie Foushee, Chair, 245-2130 <br />Bernadette Pelissier, Vice-Chair, 245-2130 <br />Board of County Commissioners, 245-2130 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a proposed resolution supporting the November 2, 2010 quarter cent <br />sales tax referendum and encouraging Orange County voters to utilize the referendum as an <br />opportunity to broaden and diversify the County tax base. <br />BACKGROUND: During the 2007 legislative session, the North Carolina General Assembly <br />granted county boards of commissioners the authority to levy, subject to voter approval, an <br />additional one-quarter (1/4) cent county sales and use tax, referred to as the Article 46 sales <br />and use tax. <br />The BOCC held a public hearing on June 1, 2010 to solicit comments from the public on a <br />possible November 2, 2010 Special Advisory Referendum concerning the levy of cone-quarter <br />cent county sales and use tax in Orange County. At the June 15, 2010 meeting, the BOCC <br />approved a resolution calling for a November 2, 2010 Special Advisory Referendum concerning <br />the levy of aone-quarter cent county sales and use tax. The approved resolution included the <br />ballot language as prescribed by state law. <br />On August 17, 2010 the BOCC held a public hearing to further solicit comments from the public <br />on the possible uses for the one-quarter cent sales tax revenues, and at its work session on <br />August 19, 2010, the Board considered the comments received and formulated a draft <br />resolution addressing potential uses. The BOCC approved a resolution documenting the <br />intended uses of the revenues from a prospective one-quarter cent sales tax referendum on <br />September 2, 2010. The BOCC established a 5-year commitment to the following use of the <br />