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5 <br /> institutional racism and the eradication of structural racism; and <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Orange County Board of County Commissioners will support <br /> and augment the work of the One Orange Government Alliance on Race&Equity[GARS] Team; and <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Orange County Board of County Commissioners will proceed <br /> to collaborate with schools boards, county departments, governmental agencies, private entities and <br /> financial institutions with the express purpose of investing in our Black/African American students and <br /> their families, investing in Black-owned farms and businesses, investing in Black/African American <br /> workers and investing in communities of color as first steps in providing long overdue reparations for the <br /> centuries of suffering, loss, anguish, injustice and trauma inflicted upon Black/African American women, <br /> men and children; and <br /> BE IT MOREOVER RESOLVED, that the Orange County Board of County Commissioners shall <br /> forward this resolution to the Governor of North Carolina, the North Carolina General Assembly, the <br /> Orange County Delegation to the US House of Representatives, and the North Carolina Members of the <br /> United States Senate. <br /> Signed this 7"'day of December 2020. <br />