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38 <br /> Housing <br /> Safe and decent housing <br /> D The League will support legislation which will <br /> facilitate access to safe and decent housing for all North Wafer and Wastewater Funding <br /> Carolina citizens, including appropriations for the <br /> Housing Trust Fund and other housing programs and gf <br /> transitional housing for homeless persons, and Seeking fu ndin or critical,water and <br /> legislation to authorize incentives to developers for wastewater needs <br /> providing low and moderate income housing. O The League will seek increased adequate funding <br /> from state appropriations and other revenues, to assist <br /> Improve or demolish dilapidated buildings with critical municipal water and wastewater capital <br /> D The League will seek statewide legislation to <br /> facilities, through the Clean Water Loan and Grant <br /> Fund. Additional attention should be devoted to water <br /> require improvement or demolition of buildings and supply funding, and the League will seek legislation to <br /> structures closed on order of a building inspector, provide for paints in the priority ranking system for <br /> instead of boarding up and abandoning. funding for facilities to treat contaminants in water <br /> supplies, if required by federal law.The 20%state <br /> Technical Assistance match to draw down the available federal funds is the <br /> minimum that must be provided. <br /> Technical assistance for planning Maintain priority system for Clean Water <br /> rJ The League will support enlarged state Loans and Grants <br /> appropriations for technical assistance to local <br /> governments in community and economic development D The League will oppose efforts to distort the <br /> activities,water quality efforts,capital improvements historical system for setting priority for the awards of <br /> planning and mass transit planning. grants and loans under the Clean Water Loan and <br /> Grant Fund. <br /> Municipal.Elections Reasonable permitting and compliance fees <br /> Q The League will not oppose reasonable and <br /> Only municipal residents voting in municipal justifiable increases in water quality permitting and <br /> elections compliance fees, if the increases are fairly applied to all <br /> O The Le ague will oppose legislation that authorizes regulated point and non-point sources. The League non-municipal residents to vote in municipal elections. will support additional funding from state <br /> appropriations to support water quality regulatory <br /> programs. <br /> Wetlands Protection <br /> Establishing buffers and protecting wetlands <br /> ❑The League will support reasonable legislation and <br /> regulations to establish effective riparian buffers and to <br /> 12 13 <br />