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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />item No.�� <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 20, 1991 <br />SUBJECT: Resolution in Support of State's Land Records Management Program (LRMP <br />DEPARTMENT: -Central Land Records PUBLIC HEARING: Yes x-- No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): Resolution <br />Grant Information <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Roscoe Reeve <br />TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill - 968 -4501 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Durham -- 688-7331 <br />PURPOSE: to approve a resolution in support of the State's Land Records <br />Management Program, and a call to move the program from the <br />State Department of Environment Health & Natural Resources (EHNR) <br />to the Office of the Secretary of State. The resolution to be <br />sent to the County's legislative delegation, and to the NCACC. <br />BACKGROUND: The LRMP has provided expertise to Oran &e County, and 86 other of <br />the State's 100 counties, and grant matching funds, since 1979. This support, <br />and those funds, have facilitated the modernization of Orange's - -land records, <br />and making them a model for other counties across the country. The EHNR and the <br />Governor have proposed to drop the program out of its 1991 -92 budget, thus <br />eliminating the program. The reason given: " the private sector can provide these <br />support services." There is no way that the private mapping sector would protect <br />the large investments made by the counties in their mapping and GIS efforts. The <br />followin& organizations are taking joint steps to support the program, and to <br />request its move from EHNR to where it will be supported and nurtured: N C <br />Association of County Commissioners, Register of Deeds Association, Bar Associa- <br />tion,.-'North Carolina Property Mappers Association, and the Association of Assesso <br />and Revenue Collectors. They.have•'asked that counties also shorn their support for <br />what the LRMP has done for them. Besides frequent and vital technical assistance, <br />the Program has given Orange $83,219 in matching grant funds, and an additional <br />$48,000 in direct grant funds. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): that the Orange County Board of Commissioners adopt the <br />resolution, and under a cover letter from its Chair forward the resolution <br />to Orange's legislative delegation, and.the NCACC. <br />