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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 20, 2009 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. (p _ Q <br />SUBJECT: Heritage Center Work Group Interim Report <br />DEPARTMENT: Library Services <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />2009 Heritage Center Work Group <br />Preliminary Report <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Barbara Baker, Heritage Center Work <br />Group Facilitator, 919-622-3321 <br />PURPOSE: To receive an initial report of the 2009 Heritage Center Work Group, to discuss the <br />findings outlined in the report and to authorize the Work Group to proceed with the next steps. <br />BACKGROUND: On June 16, 2009, the Board of County Commissioners approved the <br />composition and charge of a Heritage Center Work Group to respond to recommendations from <br />past task forces. Based on the work of three library task forces (2000, 2004 and 2007) and a <br />subgroup of the 2000 effort (an archival task force), the 2009 Work Group members were <br />charged with providing the BOCC with a clear snapshot of the financial and operational <br />requirements needed to support the needs and expectations of such a facility. Specifically, the <br />group was asked to do research and make recommendations related to the scope, organization, <br />financing, administration, collection development, and public/ private support for a proposed <br />Heritage Center. <br />The members of the Heritage Center Work Group are: <br />• Lucinda Munger, Director, Orange County Libraries <br />• Elizabeth Read, Executive Director, Alliance for Historic Hillsborough <br />• Darcie Beecroft Martin, Executive Director, Orange County Historical Museum <br />• Katharine Paulhamus, Executive Director, Burwell School <br />• Richard Ellington, Representative, Durham -Orange Genealogical Society <br />• Tina Moon, Staff to the Orange County Historic Preservation Commission <br />• Traci Davenport, Director, Chapel Hill Museum <br />• Ernest Dollar, Director, Preservation Society of Chapel Hill <br />• Laurie Paolicelli, Executive Director, Chapel Hill /Orange County Visitors Bureau <br />• Nicole Ard, Assistant Town Manager, Town of Hillsborough <br />• Carl Baumann, Volunteer, Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) <br />