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<br />1 DRAFT <br />2 <br />3 MINUTES <br />4 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />5 REGULAR MEETING <br />6 May 5, 2009 <br />7 7:00 p.m. <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, May 5, <br />11 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in the Central Orange Senior Center in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />12 <br />13 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Valerie P. Foushee, and Commissioners <br />14 Alice M. Gordon, Barry Jacobs, Pam Hemminger, Mike Nelson, Bernadette Pelissier, and Steve <br />15 Yuhasz <br />16 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br />17 COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br />18 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Laura Blackmon, Assistant County <br />19 Managers Willie Best and Gwen Harvey, and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker (All other staff <br />20 members will be identified appropriately below) <br />21 <br />22 NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br />23 AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br />24 <br />25 1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br />26 Chair Foushee went over, the items at the County Commissioners' places: <br />27 - Reference sheet for item 3-b (mauve), Presentation by EDC Chair Anita Badrock on <br />28 the Economic Development Commissioner's White Paper on Developing a Solar <br />29 Cluster in Orange County. <br />30 - Reference sheet for item 4-k (purple), Consolidated Housing Plan Annual <br />31 Update/HOME Program <br />32 - Change for item 4-u (blue), Changes in BOCC Regular Meeting Schedule for 2009 <br />33 - Reference sheet for item 6-a (yellow), Orange County Library North Carolina Room <br />34 (Local History Collection) <br />35 - Floor plan for proposed library <br />36 - New item 3-c (pink), Proclamation Recognizing Clerk to the Board Donna Baker and <br />37 Declaring May 3 through May 9, 2009as "County Clerks Week" in Orange County <br />38 - Memo from Commissioner Gordon regarding item 4-p, Approval of FY 2009-19 <br />39 Recommended County Capital Investment Plan (CIP) <br />40 <br />41 PUBLIC CHARGE <br />42 <br />43 The Chair dispensed with the reading of the public charge. <br />44 <br />45 2. Public Comments <br />46 a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda <br />47 Nerys Levy. read a prepared statement: <br />48 "My name is Nerys Levy. I am a member of the 2000, 2004, and 2007 Orange County <br />49 Library Task Forces and a Friend of the Carrboro Branch Library where, as a working artist, I <br />50 run that facility's Library Arts Program. I am here to object to the proposed closure of the <br />