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3 <br /> development fees and taxes, and the issue of alternate revenue sources for <br /> public improvements necessitated by development as worthy of immediate <br /> discussion; and <br /> WHEREAS: the Mayors of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and the Chair of the Orange <br /> County Board of Commissioners have requested each governing body to appoint <br /> two representatives to an initial working group focused on these revenue <br /> matters; <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Orange County does hereby agree to <br /> appoint two elected officials to represent the county on this <br /> Intergovernmental Board. <br /> Adopted this 15th day of March, 1988. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS. <br /> County Attorney Geoffrey Gledhill asked that he be allowed to serve <br /> on this Board at the time some type of plan for impact and development fees <br /> and taxes is developed. <br /> E. REPORTS <br /> 1. Consolidation of Health and Environmental Function <br /> Health Director Dan Reimer briefly described the situation with <br /> environmental services at the state level. He stated that even though there <br /> has been a promise of improved coordination and collaboration among the <br /> state agencies involved in providing a range of environmental services that <br /> fragmentation has continued with continued complaints from the public. As a <br /> result a legislative study commission co-chaired by Senator Russell Walker <br /> and Representative Joe Hackney has been established to recommend to the <br /> legislature how these various services can be consolidated in a meaningful <br /> form. Several of the proposals have been reviewed by the Health Board who <br /> have supported two guiding principals in arriving at a solution for this <br /> problem: <br /> (1) Because of the scientific and objective nature of the Commission of <br /> Health for the State of North Carolina through the Division of Health <br /> Services that that body remain responsible for guiding environmental health <br /> policy in the State. <br /> (2) The personal health services and the environmental health services <br /> not be disassociated from one another -- that the environmental health <br /> services not be taken out from under the jurisdictions of local health <br /> departments and placed under the responsibility of another govering body. <br /> The Health Board did endorse the concept as contained in the <br /> proposal to consolidate health, environmental protection, and natural <br /> resources functions of state agencies into a department of health and <br /> environment. <br /> Chair Marshall stated that in discussing the reorganization the <br /> steering committee of the Human Services Committee of the County <br /> Commissioners Association did not accept this as a new department. They <br /> endorsed two of the four subheadings under the Secretary and Deputy <br /> Secretary -- the Assistant Secretary for Health Services and the Assistant <br /> Secretary for Environmental Protection. They questioned why some of the <br /> things listed under the Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and the <br /> Assistant Secretary for Administration were there. They expressed that who <br /> is in the regional offices and who is in control of these offices is of <br /> importance to the local governments that work with the environmental <br /> protection people. <br />