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RES-2018-059 <br /> <br /> <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> <br />Resolution Detailing Orange County’s Recommendations <br />Regarding Goals for Inclusion in the <br />North Carolina Association of County Commissioners’ (NCACC) <br />2019-2020 Legislative Goals Package <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC) <br />organizes a process every two years to adopt a legislative goals package <br />representing the collective interests of North Carolina counties; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the purpose of the process is to develop broad support for matters <br />affecting counties that may be addressed by the North Carolina General <br />Assembly during the upcoming legislative biennium; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the goals and issues included in the NCACC package guide and <br />strengthen NCACC representatives and staff as they converse with individual <br />legislators and committees on legislative matters; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, NCACC has begun the process to develop its 2019-2020 Legislative <br />Goals Package and requested Orange County and all other North Carolina <br />counties to submit proposed legislative goals by September 21, 2018 for <br />consideration for inclusion in the 2019-2020 Legislative Goals Package; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Orange County believes there are many issues of importance to all <br />North Carolina counties that should be included as goals in NCACC’s 2019-2020 <br />Legislative Goals Package; <br /> <br />NOW THEREFORE we, the Orange County Board of Commissioners, do hereby <br />recommend that NCACC include the following goals in the NCACC 2019-2020 <br />Legislative Goals Package: <br /> <br />1) Non-Partisan Redistricting Process for Elections – Support <br />legislation to establish a process for an independent, non-partisan <br />redistricting process after each United States Census for the <br />election of representatives from North Carolina to the United <br />States House of Representatives, the North Carolina House, and <br />the North Carolina Senate; <br /> <br />2) Child Care - Seek legislation to reverse changes made to the <br />childcare subsidy program available to working families, including <br />establishing eligibility for all children at 200% of the federal poverty <br />level, to help many working parents who are trying to become