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G31i <br />Commission (NCGS Chapter, Article 2) and a local government must comply with all of those <br />® requirements in order to undertake providing an enterprise service to its community, and <br />WHEREAS, the bills are counter to the Local Development Act of 1925 in NCGS Chapter 158 that <br />allows local governments to aid and encourage economic development in communities throughout <br />North Carolina; and <br />WHEREAS, North Carolina law has long permitted local governments to engage in public <br />enterprises and there is no justification for treating communications enterprises differently from <br />other public enterprises that are essential for a sound economy; and <br />WHEREAS, historically it was government that funded much of the current corporate <br />telecommunications infrastructure in the United States and government paid for and developed the <br />Internet, and <br />WHEREAS, there are telecommunications designers, equipment manufacturers and supplies in <br />North Carolina who will be negatively affected if local governments are not allowed to provide <br />needed communications service, meaning that North Carolina will stand to lose more jobs by <br />not investing in top-quality broadband infrastructure that it will lose due to government provision of <br />such services; and <br />WHEREAS, many for-profit companies with operations in North Carolina joined our local <br />governments in opposing these bills, <br />NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Lee County Board of Commissioners opposes <br />® Senate Bill 1004 and House Bill 1252 and urges all members of the North Carolina General <br />Assembly to vote "no" in committee and, if necessary, on the floor of the General Assembly. <br />Adopted this 4'" day of May 2009. <br />Richard B. Hayes, Chairman <br />ATTEST: Lee County Board of Commissioners <br />Gaynell M. Lee, Clerk <br />James C. Kelly, Commissioner <br />Sponsor <br />11 <br />