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64 <br /> 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) Blo-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 "commercialn. 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 />