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Ea rl'E547 r• WHEREAS, efficient county government calls for well=planned advance budgeting; WHEREAS, responsive county government depends on efficient county planning.and budgeting and ample time, for citizen participation; WHEREAS,.'the current revenue sharing program expires December 31, 1976 and July through June fiscal year counties must begin budgeting 'the previous spring; THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR LEE COUNTY, , that general revenue sharing be re-enacted by the first session of the-94th Congress providing counties with advance dollar figures that can be used for efficient, responsive planning of programs and budgets and that can be identified for'more than half of their fiscal 176 year and can be incorporated in long term effective planning. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution along with the summary report be immediately forwarded to the Senate and the House of Representatives. Commissioner William H.. Cooper seconded the motion and upon a vote, it was unanimously adopted. r The Board of Co'mmissioners'was advised'tha6a proposed.'contract, between the County and North Carolina Depa'rtment' of 'Natui al and Economic Resources for the provision of planning services was presented and discussed; that, under the terms of the said contract,• the'County will pay!a tot'al,of $2, 600. 00 as its share of the planning, costs, Commissioner Franklin D. Wicker introduced the following resolution, which was read: BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE BOARD. OF COMMISSIONERS of the County of Lee: 1) That_the contract. between the,County of Lee and the North Carolina Department: of Natural and Economic Resources be and the same is hereby approved. 2) That the Chairman and the Clerk be and they are hereby authorized to sign and execute the said contract for and on behalf of the County of Lee and forward the same to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Economic Resources. 3) That upon final execution a copy of the said contract be filed with the minutes. Upon motion of Commissioner,Franklin D. Wicker, seconded by Commissioner Hal L. Hancock, said resolution was. unanimously passed. Commissioner Franklin D. Wicker moved that the sum of $2, 600. 00 be appropriated from•the unappropriated surplus in the'General Fund to the Planning Department Fund for the purpose of funding the contract with the North Carolina Department of Natural and Economic Resources for planning services, Commiss- ioner. Hal L. Hancock seconded the motion and upon a roll call vote, Commissioners