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`roru er • � '''e e.w�••` I r r COUNTY of O14NGE - CENTRAL LAND RECORDS OFFICE Roscoe E. Reeve Patricia B. Smith Manager Mapping Supervisor RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF STATE'S LAND RECORDS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM WHEREAS, the State's Land Records Management Program (LRMP) was founded by the General Assembly in 1978, to provide technical assistance and matching grant funds to counties so that they could modernize their land records; and, WHEREAS, for thirteen years the LRMP, now located in the State Department of Environment Health & Natural Resources (EHNR), has', provided vital and necessary technical assistance to the counties, including Orange, such as the establishment of standards for maps provided by private vendors; and, WHEREAS, the matching grant funds have provided Orange with an on -going important supplement to its own resources in obtaining new base and digital maps for our citizens; and; WHEREAS, EHNR and the Governor have proposed that this needed program not be included in the State Budget for 1991 -92, thus terminating the program; and, WHEREAS, it is recognized by Orange County and the North.Carolinall Association of County Commissioners that this program is still needed to protect the counties' invetsments in maps and geographic inforinatiOT systems; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Orange County Board of Commissioners calls upon the General Assembly, through its legislative delegation, to restore the LRMP and its grant programll to the budget for 1991 -92, and that it take action to move the LRMP to another State agency, such as the Office of the Secretaryli of State, where it can be nurtered and strengthened. This the 20th Day of March, 1991. 208 South Cameron Street P. O. Box 8181 Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 Telephones: 919 732 -8181 • 919 967 -9251 • 919 688 -7331 - 919 227 -2031