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Resolution -Open Facilities Policx An Open Facilities Policy for Recreation Facilities in Orange County WHEREAS, the Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and Orange County have developed parks and recreation facilities to provide service to citizens in their jurisdictions, and WHEREAS, the location and type of many parks and facilities is such that residents of adjacent jurisdictions are. in close proximity to parks of a different jurisdiction or desirous of use of the facilities, and WHEREAS,. the spirit of inter jurisdictional coordination on current and future recreation programs and facilities has been furthered in recent years with cooperative ventures between local governments, OWASA and the school systems, and WHEREAS,. attempting to tie use of recreation facilities to users only of the providing jurisdictions. would be complicated administratively and would hinder community- building and. inter-local efforts; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the elected boards of all local governments in Orange County be encouraged to adopt this resolution for an Open Facilities Policy, which would provide that all public recreation facilities constructed by the member local governments of the County be open to use by aII County citizens. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, upon adoption of this resolution by the elected boards of all local governments in Orange County, the resolution be transmitted to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education, the Orange County Board of Education, and the Board of Directors of the Orange Water and Sewer Authority, asking their endorsement of the concept of an Open Facilities Policy; AND FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, the local governments agree to explore opportunities, at a later appropriate date, to clarify and explore a modification of an open facilities arrangement with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. This, the _ day of , 1999