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76 The Chapel Hill Town Council held a public hearing in March 2, 1994 and unanimously voted to support the ordinance. The Carrboro Board of Aldermen held a public hearing on May 10, 1994 and unanimously voted to support the ordinance. Both Bodies also voted to urge the Board of Commissioners to seek new enabling legislation which would include sexual orientation as a protected class. The Hillsborough Town Board has indicated that they plan to hold a public hearing sometime after June 1994. Staff developed a revised draft of the ordinance based on comments from the Chapel Hill and Carrboro Boards, and from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 's preliminary review of the ordinance. The BOCC adopted the civil rights ordinance on June 6, 1994, effective as of January 1, 1995 for housing, public accommodations and bias-related incidents. Employment enforcement will take effect as of January 1, 1996. The County Commissioners also approved the Human Relations recommendation, stating: The HRC recommends that the Orange County Board of Commissioners request that the County's legislative delegation introduce in the NC General Assembly new enabling legislation that would authorise 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 Relation 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.