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Account No. 211 Present Approved Revised Budget Increase Decrease Budget 01-9-19-30-355 $ 43,000.00 Other Operational Costs 01-06-17-60-110 4,039,416.47 Fund Balance Appropriated $35,000.00 $ 78,000.00 35,000.00 4,074,416.47 NEW BUSINESS Appointment of Lead Agency for Home Care Community Block Grant Ms. Eleanor Koski, Director of Aging, reported that the Department of Aging Advisory Board and the Aging Plan Task Force had recommended that the Area Agency on Aging remain the lead agency for the Home Care Community Block Grant for Fiscal Year 1993-94. UPON MOTION of Commissioner Casper, seconded by Commissioner Fennel and unanimously carried, the Board appointed the Area Agency on Agency as the lead agency for the Home Care Community Block Grant for Fiscal Year 1993-94. Resolution - Establishment of Statewide Land and Water Conservation Fund Mr. Steve Little, Recreation Director, reviewed a proposed resolution in support of legislation that would make a portion of the revenue collected for the proposed park fund for North Carolina available to local governments. UPON MOTION of Commissioner Fennel, seconded by Commissioner Barnhart and unanimously carried, the Board adopted the following Resolution and authorized the Chairman to sign the Resolution on behalf of Cabarrus County. RESOLUTION REQUESTING MODIFICATION OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION AFFECTING THE RECREATION AND NATURAL HERITAGE 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 WHEREAS, eighty-five percent of the revenues from this increase on excise tax went into the general fund of the State; and WHEREAS, 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 opportunities 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 Commissioners to also support this proposal. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CABARRUS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS DOES HEREBY RESOLVE: