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MEMORANDUM To: Orange County Board of Commissioners From: John Link, County Manager Date: June 18, 2002 Re: Board of Commissioners' Proposed 2002 Legislative Package and Public Hearing Please find attached to this memorandum information on the Board's proposed 2002 legislative package. I am providing it to you in preparation for the Board of Commissioners' public hearing on the package,which is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on June 20, 2002 at the Southern Human Services Center. (A copy of the public hearing notice is attached.) In past years,the BOCC has developed a package of legislative items to pursue during North Carolina General Assembly sessions. A list of potential legislative items for the 2002 Session has been developed by the Legislative Issues Task Force and is attached to this memorandum in the form of resolutions. As in past years,the Board needs to hold a public hearing on the potential legislative items in preparation for presenting its proposals to Orange County's legislative delegation for consideration during the 2002 General Assembly Session. After the public hearing,the Board will need to review and consider approval as necessary of the attached resolutions and associated materials as developed by staff and the County Attorney. Those materials consist of two resolutions with attachments. The first resolution,with an attached draft bill(Exhibit A),requests that Orange County's legislative delegation introduce one local legislative bill regarding bikeway funding authority. It should be noted that the deadline for submittal of local bills to the Legislative Bill Drafting Division was June 5,2002, and that the bill introduction deadline for the House and Senate was June 12, 2002. Since those dates have passed, staff will work with the legislative delegation to have the bikeway item added to an existing"blank"bill or possibly to another existing local bill that would allow its consideration during the 2002 session. The second resolution requests that Orange County's legislative delegation take certain positions on various legislative matters and includes Exhibits A and B,which are attached. The last attachment is a draft letter to Orange County's legislative delegation expressing the Board's appreciation for past efforts on legislative items and transmitting to them the Board's 2002 legislative package.