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<br />1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />46 <br />47 <br />48 <br />49 <br />50 <br />DRAFT <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />November 17, 2009 <br />7:00 p.m. <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, <br />November 17, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, NC. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Valerie P. Foushee, and Commissioners <br />Alice M. Gordon, Barry Jacobs, Pam Hemminger, Mike Nelson, Bernadette Pelissier and Steve <br />Yuhasz <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Frank Clifton, Assistant County Managers <br />Willie Best and Gwen Harvey, and Deputy Clerk to the Board David Hunt (All other staff <br />members will be identified appropriately below) <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br />AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br />1. Additions or Changes to the Aaenda <br />Frank Clifton introduced the new Financial Services Director for Orange County, <br />Clarence Grier, who came to Orange County from Greensboro Housing Authority. Mr. Grier will <br />start on December 14tH <br />Frank Clifton thanked both school systems since they allowed some of their staff to sit in <br />on the assessment panel for this position. <br />PUBLIC CHARGE <br />The Chair dispensed with the reading of the public charge. <br />2. Public Comments <br />a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda <br />Cornelius Kirschner said that on September 29th, the Chapel Hill Town Council met to <br />discuss offering part of its Town Operations Center land for a transfer station. A motion was <br />made to remove the two Millhouse sites from consideration and the vote was five votes in favor <br />of studying the financial impact of the NC 54 site and the Durham Transfer Station option, with <br />two votes opposed. The two votes opposed included Mayor Foy and one other councilmember. <br />The motion was passed to study only the NC 54 site and the Durham option. He said that it <br />was very clear that the councilmembers were voting to take the two Millhouse Road sites out of <br />consideration altogether. The majority of the discussion was that the choice of a site must take <br />into consideration much more than just the economic issue. The social and environmental <br />issues should also be considered. He said that the Mayor did not want to accept this concept. <br />He said that the Town Council also rejected aten-acre extension of land also under <br />consideration. Economic considerations cannot be the sole determining factor in the choice of <br />