2012/09/04 RESOLUTION TO PLACE A ONE QUARTER CENT LOCAL OPT SALES TAX VOTER ADVISORY REF ON THE NOV 6, 2012 BALLOTRESOLUTION OF THE HARNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
TO PLACE A ONE - QUARTER CENT (1/4¢) LOCAL OPTION SALES TAX
VOTER ADVISORY REFERENDUM ON THE NOVEMBER 6, 2012 BALLOT
WHEREAS, the Harnett County Board of Commissioners has a record of responsiveness to the capital
needs of the public school system in providing adequate facilities; and
WHEREAS, Harnett County is facing unprecedented growth pressures as indicated by the 2010 census
and State projections indicate these trends will continue for the next two decades as the third fast growing County
in North Carolina; and
WHEREAS, the County's fiscal condition is stressed with a significant debt load, depleted fund balance
reserves, and a structural budget deficit; and
WHEREAS, the governing body is actively working to analyze its fiscal position and is taking steps to
correct the County's fiscal condition; and
WHEREAS, there exists immediate need for new construction of a new Harnett Central Elementary
School and a new Highland Middle School; and
WHEREAS, there are projected short term capital needs for school construction of new Western Harnett
and Southwest Harnett Elementary Schools; and
WHEREAS, there is a projected long term capital need for a new Highland High School, and the sum of
these capital needs is in excess of $146 million dollars; and
WHEREAS, the financial burden to provide these education facilities should not be placed solely on the
land owners, and property taxpayers of Harnett County citizens, working families, and retirees; and
WHEREAS, Article 46 of the North Carolina General Statutes provides that a board of county
commissioners may direct the county board of elections to conduct an advisory referendum on the question of
whether to levy a local sales tax and use tax in the county with said election to be held on a date jointly agreed
upon by the board of county commissioners and the board of elections, and the Harnett County Commissioners
desire to do so through this Resolution.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Harnett County Board of Commissioners does
hereby call upon the Harnett County Board of Elections to conduct a special election by placing a one - quarter cent
(1/4¢) local option sales tax voter advisory referendum on the November 6, 2012 ballot pursuant to the provisions
of Article 46 of the North Carolina General Statutes; and further, that the Harnett County Board of Elections
publish a legal notice of this special election not less than 45 days prior to November 6, 2012 pursuant to N.C.
Gen. Stat. § 163 -287.
Adopted this 40' day of September 2012.
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