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Moses Carey, Jr. Alice M. Gordon Stephen H. Halkiotis Verla I. Insko Don Willhoit ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS P.O. Box 8181 HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. 27278 ORANGE COUNTY RESOLUTION REQUESTING ADEQUATE FUNDING FOR lY0 �j0 XV OAIB _i)il�i`liii` � 732 -8181 968 -4501 688 -7331 227 -2031 644 -3004 (Fax) WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners recognizes and supports the responsibility of the federal and state governments to provide leadership to identify issues affecting the larger society and to establish these issues as national priorities, and WHEREAS, the:US Congress and the North Carolina General Assembly have exercised. their leadership role by mandating certain programs and services, but have, at the same time, failed to provide adequate funding, and WHEREAS, the US Congress and the North Carolina General Assembly, through these actions, have effected an increase in property taxes, while avoiding the political responsibility for such increases, and WHEREAS, these actions by the US Congress and the North Carolina General Assembly raise the issue of fairness based on the regressive nature of property taxes, the primary tax available to counties, as compared to the progressive income taxes available to Congress and the North Carolina General Assembly, and WHEREAS, the federal and state governments have further compounded the problem by requiring excessive and burdensome paperwork requirements, and WHEREAS, mandated programs now account for approximately one - third of all local government expenditures, which in Orange County accounts for 41 cents of the 76.5 cent property tax rate, and WHEREAS, these issues are of such pressing urgency that they cannot adequately be addressed through the current method of federal and state mandates and local funding. YOU COUNT IN ORANGE COUNTY 1 0