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t , 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No laar g ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: March 23, 1993 SUBJECT: Commissioners ' 1993 Legislative Goals DEPARTMENT County Attorney PUBLIC HEARING YES NO X ATTACHMENT(S) INFORMATION CONTACT Letter from County Attorney to County Attorney, 732-2196 Legislative Delegation TELEPHONE NUMBER Resolution - Enabling Legislation Hillsborough 732-8181 Amendments Chapel Hill 968-4501 Mebane 227-2031 Durham 688-7331 PURPOSE: To adopt a resolution requesting the Orange County legislative delegation to introduce a local bill to the 1993 Session of the General Assembly that would clarify the County' s authority to adopt a local civil rights ordinance. BACKGROUND: The 1991 Session of the North Carolina General Assembly approved enabling legislation authorizing the Orange County Board of Commissioners to enact a local civil rights ordinance. Further investigation suggested a number of advantages to having all anti- discrimination laws - federal, state, and local - administered locally. The US government requires that a local unit of government be granted "substantial equivalency" in order to have authority to administer federal anti-discrimination laws. The County Attorney has prepared a resolution that would request the Orange County legislative delegation to introduce a local bill providing for amendments to the County' s enabling legislation for a local civil rights ordinance. These amendments, in Attachment A to the resolution, should permit the County to earn "substantial equivalency. " RECOMMENDATION: The Manager recommends that the Board adopt the proposed resolution and authorize the County Attorney to transmit the proposed local bill to the Orange County legislative delegation.