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Excerpt of Minutes Pertaining to Interlocal Agreement <br />APPROVED 4/7/2009 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />HILLSBOROUGH BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />JOINT MEETING <br />February 19, 2009 <br />7:30 p.m. <br />Attachment 2 <br />22 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a Joint Meeting with the Town of <br />Hillsborough Commissioners on Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. in the Link <br />Government Services Center, in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Valerie P. Foushee, Vice-Chair Mike Nelson <br />and Commissioners Alice Gordon, Pam Hemminger, Barry Jacobs, Bernadette Pelissier, and <br />Steve Yuhasz <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Geof Gledhill <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Laura Blackmon, Assistant County Managers <br />Willie Best and Gwen Harvey, and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker (All other staff members <br />will be identified appropriately below) <br />HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Mayor Tom Stevens and Commissioners <br />Eric Hallman, Michael Gering, Brian Lowen, and Evelyn Lloyd <br />HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Frances Dancy <br />HILLSBOROUGH STAFF PRESENT: Town Manager Eric Peterson <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br />AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br /> <br />2. Interlocal Agreement for Hillsborough Strategic Growth Plan -Phase II -Report <br />from the Interlocal Agreement Committee <br />Margaret Hauth introduced Roger Waldon with Clarion and Associates, who has been <br />helping with this second phase of the Strategic Growth Plan. <br />Roger Waldon thanked Eric Hallman and Commissioner Jacobs for their leadership on <br />this steering committee. He said that the inter jurisdictional work is great in Orange County and <br />it is a~ model. He made reference to the brief summary in the packet. He said that the key point <br />is establishing an urban services area for Hillsborough. He said that there were a number of <br />public information sessions and he was pleased with the reaction. He pointed out the Summary <br />of Recommendations (in attachment 2): <br />Summary of Recommendations <br />The key points in the recommendations: <br />- Adjustments would be made to Hillsborough's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction boundary <br />that would remove existing Extraterritorial Jurisdiction designations in areas where <br />Hillsborough is not likely to grow, and expand Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in places <br />where it does not now exist but which are directly in the path of Hillsborough's near- <br />