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97 <br /> So.. <br /> NORTH CAROLINA <br /> RESOLUTION REGARDING <br /> ORANGE COUNTY LEGISLATIVE MATTERS <br /> BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of Orange <br /> County that the Board hereby requests the Senators and <br /> Representatives representing Orange County to support the North <br /> Carolina Association of County Commissioners in its opposition to <br /> the following legislative matters : <br /> 1 . House Bill 499 . This bill would make Orange County ' s <br /> land records data base available for reuse and for profit, at <br /> practically no cost, to real estate trade associations and their <br /> members . Orange County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the Orange <br /> Water and Sewer Authority have spent a considerable amount of <br /> public money developing a land records system for public <br /> purposes . The public should be paid for the sale of this <br /> information to persons or organizations who or which would use it <br /> for private purposes and resell it for profit . <br /> 2 . Senate Bill 799 . This bill would make public "serious <br /> disciplinary actions" now maintained confidentially in the <br /> personnel files of local government employees . It also would <br /> make public the entirety of a local government employee ' s <br /> personnel file "once two serious disciplinary actions have been <br /> imposed. " This bill provides no opportunity for the balancing of <br /> the public interest with the employee privacy interest before the <br /> release of the personnel file information. This balancing <br /> process is required under present law. <br /> 1 <br />