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Section 1. There is hereby imposed and levied within Orange County the one-half per cent (1/2%) supplemental local government sales and use tax authorized by Ratified Chapter 906 of the 1985 Session Laws (Regular Session, 1986) , and codified as Article 42 of Chapter 105 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, effective July 7, 1986. The tax hereby imposed and levied shall apply to the same extent and be subject to the same limitations as are set forth in said Chapter 906. Section 2. Collection of the tax by the North Carolina Secretary of Revenue, and liability therefore, shall begin and continue on and after the first day of September, 1986. Section 3 . The net proceeds of the tax levied herein shall be distributed by the Secretary of Revenue as provided by law. Section 4. This Resolution shall become effective upon its adoption and a certified copy hereof shall be delivered to the North Carolina Secretary of Revenue. Adopted this 23rd day of July, 1986. VOTE: UNANIMOUS. 2. WATER CONSERVATION ORDINANCE (SECOND READING) (The Drought Management Plan is on page of these minutes) Motion was made by Commissioner Carey, seconded by Commissioner Marshall to amend the existing Water Conservation Ordinance with the addition of paragraph 2 under Article 2 (as stated below) and the adoption of the drought management plan as presented by the County Manager. ARTICLE 2 PARAGRAPH 2 "With wri ten approval by the Orange County Manager transfer s limitations may be waived on a temporary basis in order to comply with physical system limitations which require the transfer of larger quantities, when an exception is granted the water transferred in any one transfer shall not exceed the sum of seven times the daily transfer limitations for the user. The water transferred weekly to the user requesting an exception shall not exceed the water usage/allocation limit for the user established in Table II. The user requesting the transfer exception shall give written substantiation of the need for the exception with its request. " VOTE: UNANIMOUS, Chair Don Willhoit stated that Mayor Sheffield expressed concern that the Ordinance does not permit the Town of Hillsborough to transfer water to OWASA when the Alert Stage is reached. Willhoit requested that the County Attorney draft an amendment to the Ordinance that would allow for the transfer of water under certain conditions. Geoffrey Gledhill explained that the amendment would permit the 1 transfer of water to OWASA up to 1/2 million gallons a day during ACTION " STAGES II-VI when the number of usable days of water remaining from all other water sources available to OWASA is less than the number of days remaining in the water supply of Lake Ben Johnston, Corporation Lake and Lake Orange and the number of usable days would be computed on the basis of the allocations that are in the table including instream flow. Commissioner Marshall expressed concern that OWASA has not provided the figures requested by NRCD last March and if the amendment is