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county line and the disruption that such a change would bring to the lives of its residents. This issue should be of concern for all Orange County residents. During the last county line negotiation, Session Law 2010-61, the law that opened the review of the county line between Alamance and Orange counties, the stated reason for opening the county line for discussion was to define the line and settle disputes over the location of the line. Later, Session laws 2011-88 and 2012-108 settled the 91% and 9% of the line, respectively. In all these cases, the idea was to find the true line as it was defined in the original 1849 law and allow residents to move to the county that they believed they lived in prior to the USGS line definition. This was a good faith effort to keep people in their existing communities and their county. The proposal to move the county line solely around Mill Creek doesn't fit with the earlier charter to find the line and solve disputes. In this case, there is no dispute as to the actual location of the land; it's all within Orange County. Hunter's Run, Collington Farms, and Ashbury neighborhoods all lie in the City of Mebane and in Orange County. However, they are not included in this proposal. My question becomes one of two choices. Is this someone's pet project, or is this a test case? If it is a pet project, it is my opinion that we should not be changing the county line based on the desire of a few well connected individuals. Alternately, if it is a test case, all of the parts of the City of Mebane that lie within Orange County could be up for grabs if this goes through. In either case, I would ask the Board of Orange County Commissioners to deny any further changes to the county line, seeing as how it is now settled law that has passed the legislature and stood for several years. Thank you for your time. Carter Vaughn read from the following printed comments: Good evening. I am Carter Vaughn. I am a sophomore at Orange High, and I'm here to talk about Mebane's wanting to change the Orange/Alamance County line by moving my neighborhood from Orange to Alamance County. I took civics class this year. In that class, we learned how a government functions and how laws are made. The primary purpose of laws is to promote the common good and protect the rights of minority groups and individuals within the community. A couple of years ago, the county line was up for debate, but the legislature worked out this dispute by passing a law solidifying the location of the county line. This is the third time someone has tried to move the county line around us and put us in Alamance County, even though the USGS survey proved we were in Orange County. We are now and always have been in Orange County. I should be considered as much a part of Orange County as my classmates that come from Efland, Hillsborough or Rougemont. If there are emergency service problems, please work them out. This is not a reason to allow the state law to be changed. I like my county and my school and all the things I get to do here that are not available in Alamance County. Please do not let Mebane take our county from us or me from my school.