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DRAFT <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Resolution Requesting Restoration of the Ability For Public School <br />Systems To Request And Receive Refunds of State and t_ocal Sales and <br />Use Taxes Paid For Goods and Services <br />WHEREAS, In the 2005 Legislative Session, the General Assembly repealed <br />previous action and repealed the authority of local school boards to receive <br />refunds of North Carolina state and local sales taxes, effective with the fiscal year <br />beginning July 1, 2005, and without meaningful opportunity for local government <br />participation in the debate; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County and its local school systems had come to rely <br />heavily on these refunds in their budgetary practices far both operating and <br />capital flmding appropriation decisions; and <br />WHEREAS, Repeal of the ability for schcal systems to request sales tax refunds <br />presents a substantial financial burden and will have significant budgetary <br />impacts on the Orange County Schools and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City <br />Schools; and <br />WHEREAS, The repeal of this authority has been an unfair financial and <br />administrative burden for the County and its school boards and for school boards <br />across North Carolina, and forces school boards to make inter-governmental <br />payments in the form of sales taxes that are not required of other local <br />governmental entities; <br />Now Therefore Be It Resolved that we, the Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners hereby request that the General Assembly restore the ability for <br />Public School Systems to request and receive refunds of state and local sales <br />and use taxes paid for goods and services and that this restoration should be <br />made retro-active to July 1, 2005, the date in which the repeal was effective. <br />This the 1 Soh day of April 2006. <br />8 <br />Barry Jacobs, Chair <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />