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11 1 e. Orange County's Proposed 2014 Legislative Agenda 2 The Board conducted a public hearing on Orange County's potential legislative items for 3 the 2014 North Carolina General Assembly Session; closed the public hearing and reviewed 4 and discussed the Legislative Issues Work Group's (LIWG) proposed 2014 legislative package 5 and any other potential items for inclusion in Orange County's legislative agenda package for 6 the 2014 North Carolina General Assembly Session; considered approval of one proposed 7 legislative matters resolution on Statewide Issues; and considered identifying three to five 8 specific items from the entire package to highlight for priority discussion at the April 28, 2014 9 meeting with Orange County's legislative delegation. 10 11 Greg Wilder said the purpose of tonight is to conduct a public hearing and to consider 12 items developed by the work group and highlight 3 to 5 items from the Board of County 13 Commissioners' resolution or the NCACC resolution. 14 He noted that Commissioner McKee and Commissioner Price served on the Legislative 15 Issues Work Group. 16 Commissioner McKee said this is not meant to be all inclusive, and this is a short 17 session this year. He noted that there are other issues, but the focus is on issues that have 18 repeatedly been on past agendas. He said some of these were winnowed down and removed 19 from the list to create a manageable number. 20 Commissioner Price said effort was made to stay with the NCACC agenda, since they 21 will be strongly working on those issues. 22 Chair Jacobs said there are two items at the Commissioner's places. He asked 23 Commissioner Rich to review the first item. 24 Commissioner Rich referred the proposed resolution on coal ash at their places - 25 "RESOLUTION REQUESTING LEGISLATIVE ACTION ON COAL ASH IN N.C." She said the 26 County is not threatened directly, but this is a resolution of solidarity with those counties that are 27 affected by coal ash. She requested that this be added to the legislative agenda. 28 29 Chair Jacobs said the other item, noted on the yellow sheet, is proposed legislation 30 authorizing counties to require residents to participate in solid waste collection programs 31 conducted by counties and impose a fee for the solid waste collection services in a manner 32 similar to the authority granted to cities. He said the fee may not exceed the costs of 33 collection. 34 He said this was introduced last year, and there is some concern as to whether or not this can 35 be introduced as local legislation, but it was a priority. 36 Commissioner McKee requested the Board pull item 1, "Revenue Options for Local 37 Government," from the legislative agenda so it could be considered separately. 38 39 NO PUBLIC COMMENT 40 41 A motion was made by Commissioner McKee, seconded by Commissioner Gordon to 42 add the following items to their legislative agenda: RESOLUTION REQUESTING 43 LEGISLATIVE ACTION ON COAL ASH IN N.C. 44 45 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 46 47 A motion was made by Commissioner McKee, seconded by Commissioner Gordon to 48 add the following item to the legislative agenda: proposed legislation authorizing counties to 49 require county residents to participate in solid waste collection programs conducted by 50 counties.