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NORTH CAROLINA AGREEMENT BETWEEN <br /> ORANGE COUNTY AND <br /> ORANGE COUNTY FREEDOM HOUSE <br /> THIS AGREEMENT made and entered into this the f i r c t day of July 1996 by and <br /> between Orange County, North Carolina, hereinafter referred to as "County", on behalf of the Orange- <br /> Chatham Criminal Justice Partnership Program,hereinafter referred to as the"Partnership"and Freedom <br /> House, Inc., hereinafter referred to as "Freedom House'; <br /> WITNESSETH <br /> WHEREAS, County acting as fiscal agent for the Partnership has received a discretionary grant <br /> from the North Carolina Department of Correction Criminal Justice Partnership Program for fiscal year <br /> 1995-1996 to establish and maintain a mess halfway house in Orange County to provide substance abuse <br /> services for individuals sentenced to intermediate sanctions in the criminal justice systems of Orange and <br /> Chatham Counties and which provides that these grant monies may be spent through contracting with <br /> private for-profit, private non-profit, and public agencies to assist in this; and <br /> WHEREAS, Freedom House is a local, non-profit corporation which currently provides halfway <br /> house services for women substance abusers; and <br /> WHEREAS, County desired to contract with Freedom House during the 1995-1996 fiscal year to <br /> assist in the development of a mens halfway house in Orange County which would provide services for <br /> chemically dependent individuals in the criminal justice system of Orange and Chatham counties as part <br /> of the Orange-Chatham community-based corrections plan substance abusers program; and <br /> WHEREAS, Freedom House desired to provide these services for County; and <br /> WHEREAS,because of problems in the interpretation of the grant contract between County and <br /> the North Carolina Department of Correction Criminal Justice Partnership Program, the County was <br /> unable to enter into any contract with Freedom house until this time; and <br /> WHEREAS, in the belief that the grant would be received and a contract entered into with the <br /> County,Freedom House provided valuable services to County in furtherance of the development of a mens <br /> halfway house; and <br /> 1 <br />