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dd. County Campus Approval of Purchase Agreement and Construction Manager at Risk Contract This item was removed and placed at the end of the consent agenda for separate consideration. ee. Authorization for Manger to Contract with a Personnel Search Firmfs) During BOCC This item was removed and placed at the end of the consent agenda for separate consideration. ff. Resolution in Opposition of House Bill 1587 -The Local Government Fair Competition Act The Board approved a resolution opposing House Bill 1587 -The Local Government Fair Competition Act and authorized the Chair to sign. RESOLUTION AGAINST HOUSE BILL 1587 `°THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT FAIR COMPETITION ACT" WHEREAS, House Bill 1587, "The Local Government Fair Competition Act," has been entered into the 2007 of the General Assembly of North Carolina, and has passed from the House Public Utilities Committee to the House Finance Committee for consideration; WHEREAS, the purpose of House Bill 1587 is to greatly hinder local governments from providing needed communications services, in particular advanced high-speed broadband services, where such services are non-existent; WHEREAS, private companies, despite having received favorable regulatory and tax treatment to enable broadband investment, have chosen not to make the investment necessary to provide such top quality services but rather to offer lesser quality slow non-state-of-the-art infrastructure technologies and to make even such lesser quality service available to less than all municipal residents; WHEREAS, while private companies declare top quality service is cost prohibitive in our country and spare no expense in legislative lobbying campaigns against private-public partnerships, the United States continues to fall in world-wide standings of broadband capability; WHEREAS, U.S. broadband capability has fallen behind the United Kingdom, Korea, France, Japan and Canada to name a few, and Japan has internet access that is at least 500 times faster than what is considered high-speed in the United States; WHEREAS, broadband internet is a new public utility necessary to compete in the global economy of the 21St century, the deployment of true high-speed broadband systems in all our local communities is of vital importance to future economic development and community growth in North Carolina to replace lost textile, tobacco, furniture and manufacturing jobs; WHEREAS, the General Assembly has already established the 1} rules for Public Enterprise {NCGS ~ 160A Article 16}, 2} regulations through the Budget and Fiscal Control Act {NCGS §159 Article 3}, and oversight by the Local Government Commission (NCGS §Article 2) in which a local government must abide in order to undertake providing an enterprise service to its community;