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<br />Orange County Board of Commissioners Planning Retreat <br />February 19, 2010, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. <br />Southern Human Services Building, Chapel Hill, NC <br />Plannine Retreat Aeenda <br />Participants: Board of Commissioners, Manager, Clerk, and Attorney. <br />Observers: MPA graduate assistant <br />Retreat Objectives: <br />1. Agree upon criteria for creating successful advisory boards and commissions <br />2. Evaluate advisory boards and commissions using criteria <br />3. Decide which advisory boards and commissions' best support the BOCC's vision and <br />goals. <br />4. Determine next steps in adopting policies for Orange County's advisory boards and <br />commissions. <br />9:00 Getting Started <br />9:15 Success from Scratch <br />• What criteria does Orange County use when establishing ABCs? <br />10:00 Gap Analysis <br />• Which ABCs meet Orange County's criteria for success? <br />10:45 Break <br />10:00 Gap Analysis (continued) <br />• Which ABCs meet Orange County's criteria for success? <br />11:30 Review and Next Steps <br />• What policies will the BOCC need to adopt to create successful ABCs? <br />12:00 Other BOCC Business <br />1. Meals for BOCC Meetings <br />• Does the County want to develop a policy that states that a certain percentage of food <br />that is served at Commissioners' meals (such as 30% or 1/3 over a year's time) must be <br />grown in Orange County, and would this percentage be a reasonable amount) <br />