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SECTION B. 8. STATEWlDE LEGISLATION (Cont.) Recreation a. Modify proposed legislation affecting the Recreation and Natural Heritage Trust Fund RESOLUTION REQUESTING MODIFICATION OF PROPOSED LEGISt 4.TION ..LFFECTING THE RECREATION AND NATUR.LL HERITAGE TRUST FU~D V~TIERE.-LS, the 1991 sess:ou of the General Assembly enacted a bill that increased the excise t~x on laud transfers by one dollar per thousand; and ~,TIERE.LS, eightT-five percent of the revenues from tl~.s increase on excise lax went into the general fund of the Stale; and %~TIEREA. S, the Leg~slath,e Study Commission on Parks and Recreation has drafted legislation that would dedTcate the eighB'-five percent of the revenue thal is currently going to the General Fund to a proposed Park Fund of N'orth Carollna to be used for land acqulsiHon; and ~TtERE.-~, local governments in North Carolina need almost one billion dollars to meet natlon~ sla~dards in proxSding land and faciHtles for leisure opportunities for citizens and xSsitors; and ~hTIERE.4S, fiandlng from the Federal Land and Water Cons:ri'alton Fund, which was a major source of snpporl for Sial: and Land Parks Systems for the last Iwenb'-seven )'ears, has decreased considerably sines 1979; and V~TIERE.~.q, the North Carolina Recreation Parks Society has requested support for m odificaI[on of the proposal developed by Ih: Leg~slatlve Study Commission on Farks and Recreation to dixSde the one[re 1991 tax increase of one dollar per thousand such that fifteen percent of the funding would be used for acqukitlon ofland whh slgn~fic, ant natural herkage value, forty-five percent of the funding would be used for local park acqu~h~on ~nd development of park lands, and forty percent of the funding would go to state parks; and YC'r'IERE.LS, the Cabarrus Count)' Parks and Recreation Department ]',as endorsed this formula and has requested the Cabarrus Count), Board of Commissloners to also support this proposal. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CABARRUS COD~,'TY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS DOES HEREBY RESOLVE: 1. The members of the General Assembly representing the people of Cabarrus County are called on to support the modification of the proposal which has been drafted by the Leglslat[ve Study Commission on Parks and Recreation Io pro,Sd: for a more equitable distribution or,he funds from the 1991 tax increase ~5th the fundlng being dMded ~s indlcaled above. 2. The Clerk to the Board of Corem]ss;on:rs ls directed to send a copy of th~s Resolutlon 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. Fran):ic F. Bonds, Clerk /3 CABARRUS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS B-2