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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 7, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 5-n <br />SUBJECT: Contribution to Ronald Aycock Scholarship Fund <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />None John Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To ratify plans to appropriate $1,000 as a contribution to the Ronald Aycock <br />Scholarship Fund, <br />BACKGROUND: For more than 30 years, Ron Aycock worked beside county commissioners <br />and managers as staff member and Executive Director of the North Carolina Association of <br />County Commissioners to bring prosperity to North Carolina counties and to gain the <br />Association recognition as one of the strongest state associations in the nation. Ron carried out <br />his leadership responsibilities as a champion of good government with expertise, gentlemanly <br />aplomb, and a sense of humor that vitalized Association activities for decades. <br />He recently presided at his final Association conference, where the Association Board of <br />Directors honored him with a new scholarship in his name at the public administration program <br />run by the Association's long-term educational partner, the UNC School (and Institute) of <br />Government. Ron received both his undergraduate and law degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill and <br />is very supportive of the University. To initiate this honor, the Board voted to commit at least <br />$25,000 as a match for gifts from Ron's current and former colleagues, friends, and admirers <br />including associations, counties and others, <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners has previously informally indicated its desire to <br />pledge $1,000 to the scholarship fund to help promote the Aycock Scholarship to become one <br />of North Carolina's top educational incentives for attracting bright, committed students to public <br />service in this state. This agenda item provides an opportunity to formally ratify that pledge <br />and to appropriate $1,000 for this purpose. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: This action would appropriate $1,000 of funds currently budgeted in the <br />General Fund Commissioner Contingency account.