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34 <br />or later). Why an issue? Any item on a current agenda <br />depending on board action could impact staff work loads for <br />the next meeting and require redrafting of volumes of <br />paperwork just submitted the day before. <br />1. I am told some staff has trouble preparing agenda items and <br />abstracts requiring Manager's staff to rewrite and restructure <br />submittals. Staff must be held responsible for their <br />submittals. There are appropriate methods available to <br />address those issues. <br />2. Numbering of Ordinances and 1Z.esolutions as already <br />discussed separately will be functional action that makes <br />tracking of County Commission actions easier; easier for <br />the staff and the public. That effort was initiated and begins <br />with January 2009. The Clerk and Attorney initiated actions to <br />create a system of verifying Ordinances and Resolutions as <br />attachments to meeting mhzutes when acted upon. The <br />Attorney is scheduled to complete an update of the codification <br />of the County's Ordinances for OFFICIAL adoption by the <br />BOCC by year's end. <br />3. The Orange County BOCC has a lower level of contract <br />and purchase sign-off authority for the County Manager <br />than authorized under NCGS. NCGS authorize a County <br />Manager to sign contracts for construction projects up to <br />$500,000 and purchases of materials and supplies up to <br />$90,000. ALL contracts still xequire a Pre-Audit sign-off by the <br />County Finance Officer before they can be legally acted upon. <br />A check of the BOCC meeting agendas for the period from <br />January -June 2009 indicates that of the various board agenda <br />items acted upon by the BOCC, fifteen (15) agenda items <br />would `not' have been a Board item if Orange County <br />followed the NCGS limits. ~Uhi].e not large in number from a <br />Board action standpoint, each required full commitment of <br />z <br />