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Valerie Foushee, Vice Chair Alice Gordon <br />Moses Carey, Jr. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />Mike Nelson <br />Link Center Renovations Capital Project Ordinance: <br />A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon seconded by Commissioner Foushee to approve <br />the Link Center Renovations Capital Project Ordinance for a total project budget of $100,000 <br />with no additional funds for FY 2008 -09. <br />Information Technology Capital Project Ordinance: <br />A motion was made by Commissioner Carey seconded by Commissioner Foushee'to approve <br />the Information Technology Capital Project Ordinance for a total project budget of $3, 326,000 <br />With $375,000 in additional funding for FY 2008 -09. <br />Summary of Grant Project Ordinances: <br />A motion was made by Commissioner Foushee, seconded by Commissioner Carey to <br />approve the Grant Project Ordinances. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />Commissioner Nelson said that at the work session, he would like to talk about next <br />year's retreat because the retreat is the beginning of the budget process. Chair Jacobs said <br />that the Board could talk about the budget process at the work session also. <br />Laura Blackmon said that the Board normally holds a retreat in January and that is too <br />late to start talking about the budget. <br />Chair Jacobs said that the retreat should be structured so that new members can <br />participate in the retreat process. <br />Commissioner Carey said that at one time the. County Commissioners did have the <br />retreat early enough to adopt Board of County Commissioners goals in March. This is what the. <br />Manager used to develop the recommended budget. <br />b. Proposed Final Draft Eno EDD Area Small Area Plan <br />The Board considered adoption of the Eno EDD Area Small Area Plan. <br />Perdita Holtz said that this item is to consider adoption of this plan. There were several <br />comments made at the QPH on May 19th, and in response, staff made three main revisions. <br />First of all, there was a reserve area for utility planning purposes to the southwest of the focus <br />area. This has been removed from all of the maps and the text. Secondly, the Durham Urban <br />Growth Area Boundary was added to all of the maps. Thirdly, the City of Durham's existing <br />water and sewer and annexation policies were added more prominently to the plan.. The . <br />Planning Board's recommendation was approval with several comments on page 3 of the <br />abstract. Staff has made comments and recommendations to those Planning Board comments, <br />which are included on Attachment 3. Administration recommends that the Board give staff <br />direction regarding the Planning Board comments, adopt the small area plan, incorporate any <br />