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L~4w or-r-icEs <br />COLEMAN, GLEDHILL, HARGRAVE &. PEEK. <br />a PROF@5510!JAL CORI'OR:ITION <br />I'9 G "flit'ON STRBGT <br />P O UR4WL'R Li?9 <br />p{ILL513C1ROU~fI i. ~ORTFI (:AROLI~ A '_T„ iR <br />Fax ~>iN-7 ;Jane7 <br />.cu a~ c^undh onn <br />June 21 <br />Moses Carey, Jr., Chair <br />valerie P. Foushee <br />Alice M, Gordon <br />Stephen Halkiotis <br />Barry Jacobs <br />Orange County Board <br />Post Office Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, North <br />20C5 <br />of Commissioners <br />Carolina 27278 <br />3 <br />P30pI 7liC gf51: OP <br />GEOEFREI'G GLEDhO LL <br />61.1: \I L: vc~arcu~pl::ihill ~~~ce~~uJ6 ami <br />RE: Orange County Administrative Unit, Special Tax <br />District; Orange County-wide, Special Tax District <br />Dear Board Members: <br />This letter answers school supplemental tax referendum <br />related questions intended to help the Board in its discussion <br />on June 23, 2005, It provides, in a numbered bulleted format, <br />pertinent provisions of North Carolina law that would pertain if <br />there were a county commissioner initiated election for a <br />supplemental tax for the Orange County school district or for <br />the entire County. All of what is described below is in the <br />general law. By special or local act any number of modifications <br />or variations to the general law are possible. Also, 1 have <br />written to the Board several times in the past about <br />supplemental school tax elections, A copy of each of my prior <br />letters accompanies this letter. <br />1. A voter approved supplemental tax for school purposes <br />is for the purpose of "supplement[ing] the funds from State and <br />county allotments and thereby operat[ing] schools of a higher <br />standard by supplementing any item of expenditure in the school <br />budget...." N,C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-501. <br />2. An Orange County School District tax for supplementing <br />the public school budget cannot exceed 50G on each $100.00 of <br />