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boos 15 w, 24 1 70 3 The Board considered a resolution supporting "Local Financial Security" Legislation. Commissioner Matthews moved to approve the following resolution: RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners is supporting the enactment of a bill tentatively entitled "An Act to Give Local Government Units More Financial Security and Restore Growth to State-Collected Local Revenues and Tax-Sharing Funds"; and WHEREAS, one purpose of the bill is to provide for automatic distribution of reimbursements of local revenues lost by General Assembly action and taxes that are local revenue sources but collected by the State; and WHEREAS, another purpose of the bill is to remove the freeze on the amounts of the state-collected local revenue funds which would be distributed to local governments with the results that local governments would lose only the growth from the current biennium that was withheld in order to balance the State's budget; and WHEREAS, while the action taken by the General Assembly may have been necessary to bring the State through its recent difficulties, it created significant problems for local government units and created a great deal of insecurity in local revenue sources; and WHEREAS, it is the opinion of the Board of Commissioners for the County of Lee that the proposed legislation represents a significant effort to deal with these problems; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners for the County of Lee as follows: Section 1: The Board of Commissioners support fully the efforts of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners to secure enactment of the act tentatively entitled "An Act to Give Local Government Units More Financial Security and Restore Growth to State-Collected Local Revenues and Tax-Sharing Funds". Section 2: That the aforementioned bill addresses problems of vital importance to units of local government. Section 3: That the legislative delegation representing Lee County in the General Assembly is requested to vote for and support enactment of aforementioned bill. Upon a vote, the results were as follows: 3