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RESOLUTION REQUESTING MODIFICATION OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION AFFECTING TEE RECREATION AND NATURAL MERITAGE TRUST FUND WHEREAS, the 1991 session of the General Assembly enacted a bill that increased the excise tax on land transfers by one dollar per thousand; and %~EREAS, eighty-five percent of the revenues from this increase on excise tax went into the general fund of the State; and %~EREAS, the Legislative Study Commission on Parks and Recreation has drafted legislation that would dedicate the eighty-five percent of the revenue that is currently going to the General Fund to a proposed Park Fund of North Carolina to be used for land acquisition; and WHEREAS, local governments in North Carolina need almost one billion dollars to meet national standards in providing land and facilities for leisure op~rtunities for citizens and visitors; and WHEREAS, funding from the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, which was a major source of support for State and Land Parks Systems for the last twenty-seven years, has decreased considerably since 1979; and WHEREAS, the North Carolina Recreation Parks Society has requested support for modification of the proposal developed by the Legislative Study Commission On Parks and Recreation to divide the entire 1991 tax increase of one dollar per thousand such that fifteen percent of the funding would be used for acquisition of land with significant natural heritage value, forty-five percent of the funding would be used for local park acquisition and development of park lands, and forty percent of the funding would go to state parks; and WHEREAS, the Cabarrus County Parks and Recreation Department has endorsed this formula and has requested the Cabarrus County Board of Coramissioners do also support this proposal. NOW, TEEREFORE, THE CABABRUS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS DOTM RESOLVE: 1. The members of the Ceneral Asse~bly representing the people of Cabarrus County are called on to support the modification of the proposal which has been drafted by the Legislative Study Co~u~ission on Parks and Recreation to provide for a mere equitable distribution of the funds from the 1991 tax increase with the funding being divided as indicated above. 2. The Clerk to the Board of Commissioners is directed to send a copy of this Resolution to each of the members of the General Assembly representing the people of Cabarrus County and to the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners. This the 15th day of February, 1993. CAE~tRRUS COUNTY BO;~RD OF COMMISSIONERS Carolyn Carpenter, Chair ATTEST: Frankie Bonds, Clerk