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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. V-jB <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 5, 1995 <br /> SUBJECT: Resolution - Granting Permission to OPC Mental Health <br /> Agency to be Exempted From Provisions of the State <br /> Personnel Act <br /> -------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: X <br /> -------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Albert Kittrell <br /> Resolution <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBER- <br /> Hillsborough -732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill . -968-4501 <br /> Mebane -227-2031 <br /> Durham -688-7331 <br /> -------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> PURPOSE: To adopt a resolution granting permission to the Orange- <br /> Person-Chatham Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and <br /> Substance Abuse Authority to seek exemption from certain <br /> provisions of the State Personnel Act. <br /> BACKGROUND: The North Carolina Legislature changed the state <br /> personnel law a few years ago to permit area mental <br /> health agencies serving multiple counties to apply for <br /> substantial equivalency under the State Personnel Act. <br /> OPC Board of Directors approved the attached resolution <br /> on April 25, 1995 seeking substantial equivalency. The <br /> Board of Directors are requesting that the Board of <br /> Commissioners approve the same resolution. <br /> The State will not entertain this request without the <br /> specific approval of all three Boards of Commissioners <br /> from the three county programs. The Person and Chatham <br /> Boards of Commissioners have adopted the resolution. <br /> Tom Maynard, Are Director, OPC Mental Health, will <br /> present the resolution and discuss the issues <br /> regarding substantial equivalency. <br />