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County has the intention of purchasing this property, it may need to be renegotiated for a different purchase price. Commissioner Nelson said that what this Board did best last year was to decide not to have a tax increase. He suggested communicating that to other entities now. He also does not want to raise taxes this year. He said that this recession has forced the County to change the way that it does business in a positive way. Chair Foushee said that she supports this 100%. Commissioner Yuhasz agreed and said that last year should be a trend and this should be communicated to anyone that is preparing a budget. Commissioner Pelissier also agreed. She said that last year there was a matrix of essential services that are mandated. She said that the Board did not truly examine some of the priorities and she wants to do that this year. Commissioner Nelson agreed. Frank Clifton said that anything related to the budget will not be easy this year. He gave credit to department heads for not filling a lot of the vacancies. 2. CLOSED SESSION A motion was made by Commissioner Hemminger, seconded by Commissioner Nelson to adjourn into closed session at 8:13 PM for the purpose of: to consider the qualifications, competence, performance, character, fitness, conditions of appointment, or conditions of initial employment of an individual public officer or employee or prospective public officer or employee" NCGS § 143-318.11(a)(6)". VOTE: UNANIMOUS RECONVENE INTO OPEN SESSION A motion was made by Commissioner Nelson, seconded by Commissioner Pelissier to reconvene into open session at 8:40 p.m. VOTE: UNANIMOUS 3. ADJOURNMENT A motion was made by Commissioner Nelson, seconded by Commissioner Pelissier to adjourn the meeting at 8:40 p.m. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Valerie Foushee, Chair Donna S. Baker, CMC Clerk to the Board