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I <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No.LV--I---14 <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 21, 1990 <br />SUBJECT: Resolution Supporting Regional Sports Authority <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: X <br />ATTACHMENT(S): Resolution INFORMATION CONTACT: Manager's Office <br />Report TELEPHONE NUMBER - <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill - 968 -4501 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />------------- ----------..---------------- --- --------- --- ----- -- - - -- <br />PURPOSE: To adopt a resolution supporting a Regional Sports Authority. <br />BACKGROUND: on August 2, 1990 Research Triangle Area elected officials <br />and business representatives met to discuss the possibilities <br />of creating a Regional Sports Authority and pursue <br />soliticing sports franchises. Wake County officials asked <br />all local governments in the Research Triangle to adopt a <br />resolution prior to September 1, 1990. Government officials <br />present agreed that passing a resolution of support for the <br />Regional Sports Authority indicates an interest, but not a <br />commitment of their jurisdictions. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): Adopt resolution supporting Regional Sports Authority. <br />