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from payment of state and local sales taxes on purchases within <br />North Carolina); and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County believes there are other issues of importance to all <br />North Carolina counties that should be included as goals in NCACC's 2011-2012 <br />Legislative Goals Package; <br />NOW THEREFORE we the Orange County Board of Commissioners do hereby <br />recommend that NCACC also include the following goals in the NCACC 2011- <br />2012 Legislative Goals Package: <br />1) Bio-solids Disposal -Support legislation which provides county <br />governments some opportunity to regulate and/or have input into, but <br />not prohibit, bio-solids application activities, including the acceptable <br />"classes" of bio-solids for application and the prohibition of bio-solids <br />application in certain environmentally sensitive areas such as critical <br />watersheds. The appropriate application of bio-solids for agricultural <br />use should be allowed with counties playing a role in the process; <br />2) Energy Efficiency Standards in Local Building Codes -Support <br />changes in State law to allow local governments to include standards <br />for energy efficiency in local building codes that are higher than those <br />contained in the State Building Code; <br />3) Fire Protection -Additional State Funding for State-Owned <br />Buildings - Support legislation to provide additional State <br />compensation to municipalities and local fire districts providing fire <br />protection to state-owned buildings; <br />4) Entertainment and Sports Event Fee to Support Transportation <br />Needs -Support legislation to permit a fee to be charged on tickets <br />purchased for large entertainment and sports events, with the <br />revenue shared by the respective government jurisdictions and <br />dedicated to the support of public transit and transportation <br />programs; <br />5) Wastewater System Classifications for Volunteer Fire <br />Departments -Support actions to change North Carolina Division of <br />Water Quality (DWQ) wastewater system classification rules which <br />currently classify a spray irrigation system such as one utilized by <br />volunteer fire departments as "commercial". When the flow <br />generated by the system is domestic quality/non-industrial process <br />wastewater, the system should be held to the same monitoring and <br />testing standards as a residential wastewater system under DWQ <br />jurisdiction. In the alternative, volunteer fire departments should be <br />excluded entirely from the "commercial" classification. The annual <br />inspections and testing costs associated with a "commercial° <br />designation for a spray irrigation system serving a volunteer fire <br />department can be several thousands of dollars. .Accounting for the <br />type of flow actually treated by a system rather than assigning a <br />blanket "commercial" designation would significantly reduce volunteer <br />fire departments' annual costs across the state; and <br />