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the scheduling of a public hearing on potential legislative items for the BOCC's March 1, 2005 regular meeting. The Board elected to hold the public hearing on the potential legislative items in preparation far presenting its proposals to Orange County's legislative delegation for consideration during the 2005 General Assembly Session. The BOCC meets with the legislative delegation on March 14, 2005. The General Assembly convened on January 26, 2005. After the public hearing, the Board will need to review and consider approval as necessary of the attached draft resolutions and associated materials as developed by staff and the County Attorney. Those materials consist of three resolutions. The first resolution with its exhibits relates to authorization to levy an impact tax on land development to pay a portion of the costs of school capital facilities, and a real estate transfer tax. The second resolution with its exhibits addresses three areas. Those are the removal of natural sound barriers along interstates, the delegation of authority to counties, and technical revisions regarding State facilities. The third resolution with attached exhibits requests that Orange County's legislative delegation take certain positions on various legislative matters. One of the exhibits is a letter and joint resolution recently signed by Orange County and other area counties and school systems regarding school funding. Following the resolutions are attachments regarding state funding requests that would be submitted to Orange County's legislative delegation. As proposed, the County would request state financial assistance for the arts studio at the Northern Human Services Center and for the construction of sidewalks on Homestead Road and Rogers Road. The next two attachments are 1) a draft letter to Orange County's legislative delegation expressing appreciation for past efforts on legislative items and transmitting to the delegation the Board's 2005 legislative package; and 2) an alphabetical listing with package location references for all the topics that are included in the legislative package. The second attachment should assist in locating various topics to be addressed during the meeting with the legislative delegation on March 14, 2005. It should also be noted that the work of the LITF to this point is based on the current information available and the outlook for the 2005 General Assembly Session. The issues addressed by the LITF and incorporated into the draft resolutions may evolve and change over the session and require additional attention by the Task Force and Board of Commissioners. New issues may also arise necessitating additional review. Lastly, the Board will discuss potential items/projects for 2005 federal funding/assistance. Commissioners Carey and Jacobs recently met with staff from Senator Elizabeth Dole's office regarding potential federal funding/assistance issues, and it has been concluded that one project should be pursued with Senator Dole -federal funding to provide for commercial grade kitchen facilities at the new Southern Orange Senior Center. There is also one potential project to be pursued with Congressman David Price -federal funding for an Orange County "Heritage Center" -with this funding being pursued from two different federal funding sources. Based on unexpected congressional deadlines, preliminary information on the Senior Center and "Heritage Center" projects was recently shared with staffs for Senator Dole and