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budget was at that time. She said that she would still like to address what Carrboro may be expecting. She likes the idea of keeping positive. Frank Clifton suggested that the Board consider initiating a long-term strategic plan for the southwest library. Commissioner Jacobs said that the Carrboro officials will be at the Assembly of Governments meeting and the Board should address their concerns up front. Commissioner Nelson said that the Carrboro funding participation issue should not be brought up at this AOG meeting because it is complicated and controversial. 2. BOCC Goals and Priorities Identified for 2009-2010 Frank Clifton said that this issue has been discussed many times by the Board of County Commissioners and the Board has never adopted these priorities (Attachment 2). He said that the staff needs to know the Board's priorities, but many of these are already incorporated into what the staff is doing. He said that the real issue is that the staff does not know the priority order, or if there is a priority order. Chair Foushee pointed out that the Board has not formally adopted goals for a long time, even though there is an annual goal-setting process. Commissioner Gordon said the retreat in 2008 included staff and Commissioners and at the end, there were six goals. The staff grouped initiatives under each goal at a later time. Chair Foushee said that she thought when they placed this on an agenda that it was to figure out if these are the goals the Board wants for this year. Commissioner Hemminger said that the three new County Commissioners have never discussed the goals. Assistant County Manager Gwen Harvey said that Attachment 1 was the outgrowth of the February 2008 retreat. The goals themselves were created at the retreat and staff was in attendance. There were six broad goals. The initiatives were formulated by staff for these six goals at a later time, but were never formally adopted by the Board. She said that priorities 1-14 were brought forth during the budget process as the top priorities. Commissioner Gordon said that she would like to talk about the six broad goals and not discuss the initiatives at this point. Commissioner Nelson agreed with Commissioner Gordon to get rid of the initiatives. He said that the priorities should be put under each goal the way the initiatives are now. He said that the priorities were supposed to be laid out on a calendar for tracking and prioritizing. He suggested that staff bring back a draft calendar with the priorities. Frank Clifton said that it looks as if the staff used the priority list for the budget process. He said that these goals are an allocation of staff time and money. He said that staff has said that most of the priorities have been addressed or are being addressed by staff at this time. Commissioner Hemminger said that the goals are fine, but she is skeptical since some priorities do not have an attached goal and then schools were not addressed. Commissioner Pelissier said that she was on the Planning Board when it did the Comprehensive Plan and the Planning Board tried to line up the Comprehensive Plan goals with the Board of County Commissioners' goals as if the Board of County Commissioners had adopted these goals. Commissioner Gordon submitted a change in wording for to Goals 1 and 3. With these changes, the six goals are shown below: