AGENDA #13a(6)
to: Mayor and Town Council
from: W. Calvin Horton, Town Manager
subject: Resolution Supporting the N.C. Land for Tomorrow Initiative for Open Space and Land Conservation
date: April 10, 2006
Mayor Foy has petitioned the Council to consider a resolution urging the General Assembly to enact legislation or a $1 billion bond to conserve land.
This is a petition to ask the Council to amend the resolution, changing the title and text to reflect our interest in belonging to the N.C. Land for Tomorrow Coalition, by becoming a local government partner.
This organization is the source for the resolution provided by Mayor Foy in the preceding petition item.
For more information, Land for Tomorrow’s web page is at: http://www.landfortomorrow.org/
As is stated on its home page:
Land for Tomorrow is a growing partnership of North Carolina organizations, local governments and citizens committed to:
building awareness of why streams, farms, forests, parks, gamelands and historic places are critical to the future of North Carolina; and
advocating for additional state funding of $200 million per year for five years to protect places that matter to our citizens and communities.
The web page provides a link to a current list of organizations and local governments which have become partners in the coalition. Orange County was the first County member in the Piedmont. Chapel Hill would be the 11th municipality to join. According to Land for Tomorrow staff, there is no cost to the Town to be a partner.
The additional language for which I petition is:
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board asks that the Town of Chapel Hill be listed as a partner in the Land for Tomorrow initiative, and that staff explore the mechanisms by which our land protection efforts and Land for Tomorrow can mutually benefit from their common goals.
This would precede the date of adoption as shown in the resolution brought forth by Mayor Foy.