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_ <br /> • <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACT ION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date May 1; 1989 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # 35.q <br /> SUBJECT: Agricultural Extension Service 75th Anniversary <br /> DEPARTMENT: Agricultural Extension Service PUBL IC HEARING Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> County Resolution Fletcher Barber, Jr. - Ext. 447 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 • <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To adopt Resolution observing May 8, 1989 as Agricultural <br /> Extension Service 75th Anniversary. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> The Smith-Lever Act of 1914 fostered the development of State Agricultural or Cooperative- <br /> - Extension Services nationwide. The system of informal education is a cooperative arrange- <br /> ment involving Federal, State and County governments and the land-grant universities. In <br /> this state, they are North Carolina State University and North Carolina AU State University. <br /> The fundamental mission of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service is to extend <br /> the campuses of the universities, and their research technology and educational resources, <br /> to all people--rural and urban, farm and non-farm, adult and youth. <br /> Orange County is joining its 99 sister counties and the nation in the observance of <br /> May 8th as the 75th birthday of agricultural extension education. <br /> RECOMMENDATION: Adopt Resolution observing May 8, 1989 as Agricultural <br /> Extension Service 75th Anniversary and authorizing Chair <br /> to sign. <br /> • <br />