AGENDA #15a(1)

MEMORANDUM

TO:                  Mayor and Members of the Chapel Hill Town Council

FROM:            Edith Wiggins, Kevin Foy, Bill Strom

SUBJECT:            United Way Policy

DATE:             October 23, 2000

We ask the Council to direct the Mayor to contact, on behalf of the Chapel Hill Town Council, the Triangle United Way and to ask the United Way to rescind its double standard regarding discrimination based on sexual orientation.  It is our understanding that the United Way does not itself discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, but that it permits organizations that it helps fund to engage in such discrimination.  The letter should specifically assert the Council’s strong support for a single policy of nondiscrimination, both for the United Way and for all organizations receiving funding from the United Way.