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h 539 r� north carolina botanical garden chapel hill, 27514 June le, 1979 kir. Sam Gattis, County Manager 106 Bast Margaret Sane Orange County Courthouse Hillsborough, NC 27278 Fear Mr. Gattis, Due to an unanticipated cut in available funds, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen last week deleted the North Carolina Botanical Garden's tenta- tively approved 1979-80 funding for local area public programs from the Chapel Hill budget. Thus, at this late date the North Carolina Botanical Garden must request from Orange County the funding necessary to continue its current level of botanical/horticultural activities available to area citizens through fiscal year 1979-80. The N.C. Botanical Garden requests 0,000 for r't 1979-80 in order to provide the following: 1. Botanical/horticultural educational and recreational activities for Orange County residents as listed specifically on the attached sheet; 2. Continued training and coordination of 112 Orange County Botanical Garden volunteers which requires a minimum of 646 Garden Staff hours per year. An example of the fine volunteer activity which results was seen as the Volunteer Herb Gardeners brought national recognition to the area in the May issue of Southern Li. ving magazine; 3. Assistance with the maintenance of the nature trail and other public facilities utilized by more than 10,000 people yearly, 75% of whom are from Orange County. Because, 1. The University of North Carolina does not provide any funding for the many varied local, public programs which the Garden has developed, and 2. The Garden facilities and programs provide unique, non-competitive, outdoor educational and recreational programs and activities not otherwise available to the adults and family groups of the area,