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