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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 Justice, which is, "Develop a plan, for lower-income households not receiving water and sewer services, to address water pollutants that are below official threshold levels but nevertheless are problematic as ingredients of a household's water supply." Andy Sachs asked if the Board agreed with this. Commissioner Jacobs said that he does not think that there is a solution to this that is within the County's purview. Geof Gledhill said that this is a legislative issue, and it could be brought to the legislature. Commissioner Jacobs said that it could be grouped with the bio-solids issue, but this is beyond their purview. He suggested putting the issue on the legislative agenda. Commissioner Nelson said that he does not know what the legislative issue is, but one solution is to have a water fund to help people connect to water and sewer lines. Carrboro has a fund like this. He said that there may be other solutions. He does not see this as a priority for this year, but he has heard people talk about it. Andy Sachs took this item off the list as a priority. Commissioner Gordon made reference to item #40, "to develop a plan to identify and address the impacts of various land uses and waste treatment options on the quantity and quality of the ground and surface water resources of Orange County, so that these resources can be factored into long-term planning", and said that this might be linked to the Comprehensive Plan process or loose ends. How we'll identify resources, monitor progress, and achieve the Board's priorities • Proposal by the Manager • Discussion • Decision Laura Blackmon said that she will need to take this back to staff, and in many cases there are things that are in the works, not including loose ends. Some of these may need policy adjustments, and some have budget implications. She would like to bring this back in a work session to discuss further. She may be able to present to the County Commissioners where they are in the process of an item and some may need more discussion. She said that she does not want to wait too long to bring these back to the Board and a lot of these will have budget implications. She said that the feedback from the Board is great direction on these items. Chair Carey said that by the end of March the Board needs to know the budget implications of all of the items on the list that was just developed. The Board needs to inform the public as to what the County can and cannot do. Laura Blackmon said that the item with the target on the taxes will really set the tone for how much the County can accomplish. A significant number of the issues are budget related. Commissioner Jacobs said that he would like a report from the County Manager as to what she is doing to make the County operations more efficient (before the budget is adopted). Clarification of the Process for Liaison Appointments Chair Carey made reference to the yellow sheet and said that the policy statements were extracted directly from the work session meeting. He thought there was general consensus on all of this, but it needs to be clarified. He does not understand why this has consumed so much of the County Commissioners' time each year, but there has to be a policy. This is an attempt to focus on a policy. He said that Commissioner Nelson is new and cannot pick his top two because he has never served on anything. He thinks that this is unfair to Commissioner Nelson. Commissioner Nelson made reference to the first bullet point, which is "Each BOCC member shall choose two boards that they currently serve on that cannot be taken away by the other BOCC members." He said that he has a philosophical disagreement with members who