
{"id":15632,"date":"2011-02-03T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=15632"},"modified":"2011-02-03T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T15:14:35","slug":"county-approves-legislative-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/02\/03\/county-approves-legislative-package\/","title":{"rendered":"County approves legislative package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Unsatisfied with Orange\/Alamance line<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Susan Dickson<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted on Tuesday to approve the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legislative package for the 2011 North Carolina General Assembly Session, requesting approval of bills that would prohibit deer hunting with dogs in Orange County and establish 91 percent of the disputed Orange County\/Alamance County line.<br \/>\nThe counties have been working to resolve the disputed boundary since 2008, when the line was resurveyed.<br \/>\nThe commissioners also voted to send a letter to Alamance County officials requesting their cooperation in resolving concerns involving the Morrow Mill Road and Mill Creek neighborhoods in Mebane. Residents of the Morrow Mill Road area want to remain in Orange County, while residents of the Mill Creek neighborhood have expressed a desire to move to Alamance County. However, the agreed-upon portion of the line leaves Mill Creek in Orange County and moves Morrow Mill Road to Alamance County.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153People in the Morrow Mill neighborhood continue to be concerned about this,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Carol Ann McCormick, a Morrow Mill Road resident. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We continue to want to remain part of Orange County, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m disappointed that we haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been able to convince anyone that we should remain.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nCounty Manager Frank Clifton said the portion of the county line that affects the Morrow Mill and Mill Creek areas could be addressed in a separate bill in a future legislative session.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153One side wants to be in Alamance, one side wants to be in Orange \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d think it would be simple,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<br \/>\nCommissioners said they hoped to find a way to resolve the residents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 concerns.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just do not feel that we have upheld our commitment to the Morrow Mill Road people,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Vice Chair Steve Yuhasz said.<br \/>\nThe package also presents the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s position on various statewide issues, including:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 support for legislation that would authorize any local government to enact any revenue source that is available to one or more local governments in the state, such as the land-transfer tax or sales tax;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 opposition to legislation that would shift the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s responsibility for funding road construction and maintenance projects to county governments, with a request that counties be granted the authority to levy fees or tolls if that responsibility is shifted;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 support for legislation that would allow county governments to regulate and\/or have input into bio-solids application activities;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 support for legislation that would allow local governments to include standards for energy efficiency in local building codes that are higher than those in the State Building Code;<br \/>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 support for legislation and funding to expand broadband capability to the un-served and underserved areas of the state; and<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 support for legislation that would exempt counties, cities, school boards, community colleges and the Orange Water and Sewer Authority from payment of state and local sales taxes on purchases within the state.<br \/>\nCommissioners Earl McKee and Yuhasz voted against the provision about enacting revenue sources that are available to other local governments, pointing out that voters rejected both the land-transfer and sales-tax referendums on recent ballots.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I do not think that it is appropriate for the Orange County Board of Commissioners to enact any source of revenue that may have been approved by any county in this state,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yuhasz said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am just concerned that Orange County might decide that it needed to impose one of those revenue options that was available to another county that was inappropriate for this county.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nOther commissioners said they felt that the board would act responsibly given the option to enact revenue sources.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have confidence in our boards here in Orange County that if we had options we wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make foolish decisions, that we would tailor it to the needs of the citizens,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d board Chair Bernadette Pelissier said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted on Tuesday to approve the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legislative package for the 2011 North Carolina General Assembly Session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15633,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions\/15633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}