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DRAFT <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLE <br />FOR THE <br />2006 NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION <br />4 <br />Orange County respectfully requests the North Carolina General Assembly to conduct the <br />2006 legislative session with goals of: <br />• Helping those residents of the state who are less fortunate; <br />• Rejecting the influence and strong-arming tactics offor-profit special interests <br />over the interests of the people of North Carolina; <br />• Taking responsibility, both financial and otherwise, for the initiatives enacted by <br />the General Assembly and ceasing reliance on local governments and property <br />taxes to implement unfunded mandates; <br />• Considering ethics and ethical behavior as standard guiding principles of all <br />activities, legislative and otherwise; <br />• Leading the state in addressing areas such as school capital funding, solid waste <br />planning, recycling, alternative transportation, and land, water and energy <br />conservation; and <br />• Providing to all local governments revenue options that are currently only <br />available to some specific local governments, <br />Orange County is confident that the North Carolina General Assembly can meet these <br />goals, but only if its will matches its rhetoric, <br />