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Department of Commerce developed the Job Links Career system. The Orange County Skills Development Center located on Franklin Street is a chartered Job Link Career Center offering employment training and employer services under one roof. She said that the report on pages 15-18 highlights the services and collaboration that exist at this center. In closing, the Regional Partnership Workforce Development Board would like to thank the Board of County Commissioners far their support and their proactive efforts in the development of the Skills Development Center in Orange County. Commissioner Brown said that the management and care of the center has made it the success that it is. Chair Jacobs asked if they perceived that having an Orange County site for Durham Tech would affect the workforce development efforts in Orange County. Gwen Price said that they see this as a good opportunity to expand training efforts in Orange County. 7. Public Hearings a. Orange County's 2004 Legislative Agenda Geof Gledhill said that every year the Board of County Commissioners considers resolutions to pass on to the legislative delegation. He said that in the last year and again this year, the Board is pursuing lobbying the federal representative for projects in Orange County where funding may be available. The first resolution {green) relates to a tax on the impact of land development in Orange County. A bill was created in the 198Q's and it ran into opposition from the Home Builder's Association. Orange County has not given up an the notion of getting authority from the General Assembly to levy an impact tax on land development for the purpose of generating money for school capital needs. This resolution would have the County do this again. There continues to be resistance from the Home Builder's Association with respect to the impact tax. The impact tax would be more flexible than the impact fee. The second resolution relates to mental health reform. There is an effort to come up with a Local Management Entity (LME} for Orange, Person, and Chatham Counties. The LME will operate the mental health system in Orange County. Orange County is a member of the OPC Mental Health Authority and this legislation will provide the opportunity for the OPC Authority and the joint undertaking of the three governments to operate simultaneously for same period of time during the transition period. He said that there is a black line that is drawn between the end of the old way of doing things and the new way of doing things. This will be a statewide bill, but it will only directly impact few counties in the state that are moving from an area of authority into some other mental health arrangement under the reform legislation. The third resolution {pink} is in reference to the dispute of the Orange County and Chatham County boundary. At the request of the State office that has monumented the boundary that was agreed upon by the two counties in the late 80's, the manumenting organization in the State government has asked Orange and Chatham Counties to get the General Assembly to bless the monumented line. It is overlaid by an unresolved issue having to do with the resolution that was adopted by the two counties in the late 8Q's that dealt with properties that were located in one county, but wanted to continue to be treated as though they were in another county. There is a disagreement between Orange County and Chatham County as to what the intent of the agreement was. There has been some discussion at the staff level and it is now at the Board level about how to resolve the difference of opinion. Exhibit A is a bill to permanently record the monumenting of the line. In bold print, there are bubbles for the areas where people live in Chatham County but would like to live in Orange County. The fourth resolution (orange} is Orange County initiatives, which are similar to the ones that were sent last year. He reviewed these items. The next grouping is the solid waste and reducing the amount of solid waste and asking the legislators to support legislation that would make the State play a greater role in the recycling efforts {i.e., bottle deposit legislation, advanced recycling fees, and support recycling and disposal of white goods}. There are new initiatives in the "other" category, one of which is to support the Mental Health Treatment Court Pilot Bill. This is a good way of diverting people from the court system and treating them with mental health help and not as criminals.