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for the County Administrator be eliminated. <br />~_ <br />There being no further business to come before the Board, the <br />meeting was adjourned to meet again on Thursday, January 22, 1876, <br />~\ 0~4 ~ ~~ <br />Flora R. Garrett, Chairman <br />Betty June Hayes, Clerk <br />MTNUTE5 <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />January 22, 1976 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in adjourned session <br />on Thursday, January 22, 1976, at 7:30 p.m., in the Commissioners' <br />Room of the Courthouse in Hi118borough, N. C. <br />Members present were Chairman Flora Garrett, Commissioner Norman <br />Gustaveson, Jan Pinney, Norman Walker and Richard E. Whitted. <br />Members absent were none. <br />5. 'M. Gattis, County Administrator, and Betty June Hayes, Clerk <br />were also present. <br />Charles Johnston, Chairman of the Orange County Planning Board; <br />Marilyn Riddle, Leon F. Yates, John A. Scarlette, and Jean Anderson, <br />members of the Planning Board, were also present. <br />Ervin Dobson, Planning director for Orange County, Chfis <br />Edwards, Hal Minis, Kathy Williams, Frank Parker and Terry Hoffer, <br />members of the Planning Department Staff, were also peesent. <br />Mr. Carl Shy, Donald N. Cox, Robert Drakeford, Douglas Sharer, <br />Josephine Barbour, S. G. Barbour, Eve Shy, Joanne Carl, Ellen <br />Ironside, Beverly Kawalec, members of the Steering Committee for <br />the Growth Options Conference, were present as was Mark Burnham and <br />Ray Green of the Triangle J Council of Governments. <br />Carenthia Wright and L. M. Cathcart were present as interested <br />citizens. <br />Chairman Garrett referred to Item #4 on the Agenda: A report <br />on the Ceunty Growth Option Conference. The Chairman recognized <br />Ervin Dobson, County Planning Director, who began the discussion on <br />ways and means that the Planning Staff and Planning Board could <br />utilize, in their proposed planning program, the suggestions offered <br />by the Growth Options Conference. <br />Discussion ensued between the representatives present, members <br />of the Board, and the Planning Staff. It was suggested that members <br />of the Steering Committee of the Growth Options Conference serve as <br />an Ad Hoc Committee and/or Advisory Committee to the Planning Board <br />and the Planning Staff. <br />~_ Upon motion of Commissioner Whitted, seconded by Commissioner <br />Gustaveson, it was moved and adopted that an Ad Hoc Committee to the <br />Planning Board, made up of persons who possess expertise in the plann- <br />ing area and/or those persons who had served on the Steering Committee <br />of the Growth Options Conference, be established. These persons are <br />to be representative of the entire County and not just from those <br />townships that are zoned. <br />The Chairman referred to Item #3 on the Agenda: The question <br />of approval of the Alamance County 201 Study was deferred from you <br />meeting of the 20th, Mr. Hal Minis will comment on this report for <br />the Planning Department. The Resolutien of approval should then be <br />considered. <br />