P-0540 - Orange County Board of Commissioners Debt Management Policy - 05-06-1998-9f

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APPROVED 10/20/98 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS • REGULAR MEETING May 6, 4998- The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Wednesday, May 6, 1998 in the Judge F. Gordon Battle Courtroom, new County Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair_Margaret W. Brown,. and. Commissioners Moses Carey, Jr., William L. Crowther, Alice M. Gordon and Stephen H. Halkiotis. COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Managers Rod Visser and Albert Kittrell and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (All other staff members will be identified approprfatety bebw7 NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. ALL RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING WILL BE KEPT FOR 5 YEARS. 1. ADDITIONS OR CHANGES TO THE AGENDA The Board agreed to delete item 9-i "Lease renewal for 103 Laurel Avenue, Carrboro°. The Board added to the agenda a discussion on the request from the Carrboro Board of Aldermen to form a task force to develop a plan for library services in Carrboro. John Link will do a report on what has been provided to date for library services in Carrboro, how it is working and public utilization. The Board added aproclamation-for Disability Awareness Week as item 5-e. • 2. CITIZEN 8 AUDIENCE COMMENTS a. Matters on the Printed Aqenda Chair Brown stated that citizens who have indicated a desire to speak on an item that appears on the printed agenda will be recognized at the appropriate time. b. Matters not on the Printed Aqenda Donna Miller who lives at 4310 Old Chapel Hill-Hillsborough Road, which is part of the three mile stretch of highway that was given this name, spoke in support of changing the name of this road back to Old Hwy 86. She told about the problems they have in getting their mail because of the long name of their road. They also have a problem with 911 calls. She said it is very confusing and she asked that it be changed back to Old Hwy 86. Commissioner Halkiotis- presented a petition.with-54 signatures representing the residents of OId Chapel Hill- Hillsborough Road in their desire to change the name of the road to Old Hwy 86. The reasons are as follows: 1. The address as it is currently written has too many characters to be held by many modem computers. 2. Attempts to abbreviate the address are not standard and cause mail to be lost. 3. There is extreme difficulty in giving the address verbally over the phone to companies which need to send- information. 4. Only the residents of a 2 mile stretch of the road are impacted by the address, the remainder of the road is called Old Hwy 86. It would seem more logical to continue the name to the city limits of Hillsborough to facilitate emergency as well as personal visitors to our homes. Commissioner Halkiotis asked that staff bring back a recommendation on what can be done. Mitchell Lloyd and Don Collins both spoke in support of this request to return the name of this stretch of road to Old Hwy 86.