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APPROVED 12/3/90 MINUTES <br />• ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />OCTOBER 16, 1990 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session <br />at 7:30 p.m. in the courtroom of the old Post Office in Chapel Hill, <br />North Carolina. <br />BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairman Moses Carey, Jr., and <br />Commissioners John Hartwell, Stephen Halkiotis, Shirley E. Marshall and <br />Don Willhoit. <br />ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant <br />County Manager Albert Kittrell, Deputy Clerk to the Board Kathy Baker, <br />Extension Director Fletcher Barber, Clerk to the Board Beverly A. <br />Blythe, Finance Director Ken Chavious, Planning Director Marvin Collins, <br />Housing Services Director Tara Fikes, Accountant Howard Fitts, <br />Administrative Officer I Richard Poole, and Social Services Director <br />Marti Pryor-Cook <br />I. BOARD COMMENTS <br />Commissioner Halkiotis referred to the Hillsborough Thoroughfare <br />Plan and asked the Clerk to obtain additional information on the <br />officially adopted map and the new map that is proposed by Hillsborough. <br />• II. COUNTY MANAGER'S REPORT <br />John Link introduced the new Personnel Director Elaine Holmes. <br />He announced that Orange County employees raised $13,700 for <br />United Way. Also, last evening at the Orange County Board of Education <br />meeting, the modified plan for the Efland Cheeks Community Center and <br />Park was well received. It is expected to be approved at their next <br />meeting. John Link announced that Tara Fikes has been appointed to the <br />Board of Directors of the North Carolina Low Income Housing Coalition. <br />Tomorrow the Transportation Advisory Committee will meet at 9:00 a.m. <br />to address the Thoroughfare Plan. <br />To again reaffirm the Board's position, a motion was made by <br />Commissioner Willhoit, seconded by Commissioner Hartwell to restate the <br />Board's position of opposing the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro <br />Thoroughfare Plan and in particular the Outer Loop. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />Discussion ensued on the watershed standards approved by Durham <br />County. <br />III. ADDITIONS OR CHANGES TO THE AGENDA <br />A resolution for Economic Development Funding by the General <br />Assembly was added to the agenda as 6-A. <br />• IV. AIIDIENCE COMMENTS <br />