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EXHIBIT L LEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Resolution Altering Structure Of Board June 26, 1989 WHEREAS, the Lee County Board of Commissioners presently consists of five members elected from the county at-large for staggered, four-year terms; and WHEREAS, the Board desires to increase the opportunity for black voters to elect candidates of their choice to the Board; and WHEREAS, Chapter 195 of the North Carolina Session Laws of 1989 authorizes the Board to change the method of election by adoption of a resolution following a public hearing; and WHEREAS, such a public hearing has been held on this date, after the required ten days' notice was given; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Lee County Board of Commissioners that: 1. After the 1990 election the Board of Commissioners shall consist of seven members, four of whom shall be elected from four single-member districts by the voters of those districts, and three of whom shall be elected by all the voters of the county. 2. Elections for the Board of Commissioners shall con- tinue to be partisan. Political parties' candidates shall continue to be nominated by party primaries, but there shall be no second primaries. Results of party primaries in 1990 and subsequent election years shall be determined as follows: a. In a primary to choose a nominee for a district office, the candidate who receives the highest number of votes shall be declared the nominee. b. In a primary to choose nominees for at-large offices, the candidates receiving the highest number of votes, equal in number to the number of offices to be filled, shall be declared the nominees. c. If two or more candidates receiving the highest number of votes necessary to be nominated each receive the same number of votes, the proper party executive committee shall , from among those candi- dates receiving the same number of votes, select the party nominee in accordance with N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-114 .