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DRAFT FOR COMMISSION REVIEW ONLY <br />FOREWORD <br />This is an outstanding opportunity to develop and direct the first in-house legal department of an <br />exceptional organization and be an important member of a dynamic community. Orange County <br />is home to the flagship campus of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to the towns of <br />Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Mebane (move), and Hillsborough, the County Seat, as well as a portion of <br />Mebane. <br />Orange County, founded in 1752, is a combination urban and rural community of over 121,000 <br />citizens with a land area of 400 square miles, an array of residential housing and a widely <br />diversified population. Orange County is operated under a county manager/commission form of <br />government. The County Attorney will advise and report directly to the Board of County <br />Commissioners. The County is culturally diverse, progressive, and a leader in practicing <br />environmentally protective and sustainable development. The County population is well-educated <br />and is highly involved in all County government activities. Education, the environment, excellent <br />services and other quality of life issues are, important to Orange County citizens and to the Board <br />of County Commissioners. <br />The County is well regarded as a fiscally responsible, stable, well-managed and technically <br />advanced local government. The seven-member elected Board of County Commissioners is the <br />governing body of Orange County. The annual County budget is over $165 million, and there are <br />in excess of 770 full-time County employees. GET CORRECT NUMBERS <br />The County provides afull-range of county government services typical of North Carolina <br />counties, and some services not typical. The services provided include~affordable housing, aging, _ _._--- Deleted: ins <br />animal control, public school education, including financial support to a communi college <br />campus, environment and resource conservation, health and human services, law enforcement (via <br />the elected Sheriff), planning and zoning, property tax assessment and collection, public works, <br />recreation and parks, recycling, and a variety of general administrative services. Award-winning <br />programs for child support enforcement, watershed protection and solid waste management are <br />only some of the County's recent initiatives developed in response to citizen needs_ <br />Orange Cozznty, North Carolina <br />The Mercer Group, Inc., 2008 page 3 <br />