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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 16, 2010 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 3 " <br />_ SUBJECT: Resolution Regarding Afghanistan War and Warfare Funding <br />DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1) Draft "Resolution To End the Frank Clifton, 245-2300 <br />Expenditure of the Public's Tax Dollars <br />by the U.S. Congress for Excessive and <br />Unaffordable Warfare Funding" as <br />Considered at the October 19, 2010 <br />Regular Board Meeting <br />2) Draft " A Resolution To End The War in <br />Afghanistan and Stop The Expenditure <br />of the Public's Tax Dollars For Warfare <br />Funding" -Proposed By Commissioner <br />Alice Gordon <br />PURPOSE: To consider adopting a resolution regarding the Afghanistan War and warfare <br />funding. <br />BACKGROUND: Orange County resident Mark Marcoplos asked the Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners at its September 21, 2010 regular meeting to consider the adoption of the <br />resolution to end the expenditure of tax dollars for excessive and unaffordable warfare funding <br />because the financial resources available for use by governments at the local, county, state and <br />federal levels in the United States are limited; and while these funds are limited, an inordinate <br />level of military expenditure is being made by the U.S. federal government for warfare in <br />Afghanistan. <br />Mr. Marcoplos stated that the people of Orange County are collectively paying or becoming <br />indebted for approximately 351 million dollars per year (with the national average of <br />approximately $2,600/per person) of their limited financial resources for such warfare which <br />supplied no identified public benefits. Mr. Marcoplos continued that this warfare created great <br />and unnecessary harm to the people of the nation of Afghanistan and to U.S. military personnel <br />and their families. The warfare had also significantly reduced educational services, <br />infrastructure repairs, other essential public services, and family and private-sector financing in <br />Orange County and throughout the State of North Carolina. <br />At the Board's October 19, 2010 regular meeting, the Board discussed the resolution provided <br />at Attachment 1. Based on that discussion, the Board voted to delay consideration of the <br />resolution to allow for additional consideration, any possible public input, and for possible <br />