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49 <br />Resolution -Open Facilities Polity <br />An Open Facilities Policy for Recreation Facilities in Orange County <br />WHEREAS, the Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and Orange County have <br />developed parks and recreation facilities to provide service to citizens in their <br />jurisdictions, and <br />WHEREAS, the location and type of many parks and facilities is such that residents of <br />adjacent jurisdictions are in close proximity to parks of a different jurisdiction or desirous <br />of use of the facilities, and <br />WHEREAS, the spirit of inter-jurisdictional coordination on current and future recreation <br />programs and facilities has been furthered in recent years with cooperative ventures <br />between local governments, OWASA and the school systems, and <br />WHEREAS, attempting to tie use of recreation facilities to users only of the providing <br />jurisdictions would be complicated administratively and would hinder community- <br />building and inter-local efforts; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the elected boards of all local <br />governments in Orange County be encouraged to adopt this resolution for an Open <br />Facilities Policy, which would provide that all public recreation facilities constructed by <br />the member local governments of the County be open to use by all County citizens. <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, upon adoption of this resolution by the elected <br />boards of all local governments in Orange County, the resolution be transmitted to the <br />Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education, the Orange County Board of Education, and the <br />Board of Directors of the Orange Water and Sewer Authority, asking their endorsement <br />of the concept of an Open Facilities Policy; <br />AND FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, the local governments agree to explore <br />opportunities, at a later appropriate date, to clarify and explore a modification of an <br />open facilities arrangement with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke <br />University. <br />This, the giddy of , 2000 <br />