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9 <br /> The Board of Commissioners adopted the Orange County <br /> Civil Rights Ordinance in 1994 with the purpose and <br /> policy to promote the equal treatment of all <br /> individuals . In subsequent years, the County has <br /> requested, to no avail, additional legislative <br /> authority to amend the Ordinance to include additional <br /> protected classes . The Orange County Human Relations <br /> Commission formally acted in October 2011 requesting <br /> that the Board of Commissioners take the appropriate <br /> steps to amend the Orange County Civil Rights Ordinance <br /> to include sexual orientation and sexual identity as <br /> protected classes . Approximately 890 of Fortune 500 <br /> companies prohibit discrimination based on sexual <br /> orientation, including Bank of America, Lowe' s, Duke <br /> Energy, Branch Banking and Trust (BB&T) , and Reynolds <br /> American (the five largest North Carolina-based public <br /> companies in that order) ; <br /> 9) * E-911 Funds - Orange County supports permanently <br /> extending the authorization to use E911 funds for all <br /> public safety disciplines . Orange County appreciates <br /> past efforts and supports future initiatives to expand <br /> the uses for these funds within the public safety <br /> disciplines related to emergency communications and <br /> Emergency Medical Services . North Carolina General <br />