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2 phase (employment) become effective as of January 1 , 1996 . b) The HRC recommends that the Orange County Board of Commissioners request that the County' s legislative delegation introduce in the N.C. General Assembly new enabling legislation that would authorize the Orange County Civil Rights Ordinance to allow affectional preference/sexual orientation as a protected class. The Commission further recommends that this request be made in a timely manner in order to allow the enabling legislation to be introduced during the next long session of the General Assembly and that it be contingent upon: • the formation of a coalition of other North Carolina human relations commissions and community groups that have an interest in seeing such legislation enacted, and • the development of a multi-county collaborative effort to garner support for local enabling legislation that would include affectional preference/sexual orientation as a protected class. c) The HRC recommends that the necessary level of staff support be provided to effectively implement the civil rights ordinance, specifically one full-time civil rights investigator position and one full-time human relations specialist position to provide community education and support to the Human Relations Commission. The manager and the BOCC will discussing staffing and recommendation (c) from the HRC during the FY94-95 budget deliberations. RECOMMENDATION W : The Manager recommends that the Board: 1) Adopt the revised ordinance effective as of January 1 , 1995 , per recommendation (a) of the Human Relations Commission, 2 ) Convey the Board's action to the other jurisdictions and ask them to adopt resolutions permitting the ordinance to be applicable to their corporate boundaries; 3) Approve recommendation (b) from the Human Relations Commission.