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15 1 Commissioner Jacobs asked for a friendly amendment to address renaming the 2 department. 3 Frank Clifton said that this would robabl p y happen anyway. He said that the County 4 could not initiate an inquiry into what it does through its own operations. 5 g p 6 VOTE: Ayes, 5; Nays, 2 (Commissioner Jacobs and Commissioner Gordon) } 8 Frank Clifton said that he would try to do a better job of communicating 9 and commissions. t g with the boards 10 11 7. Reports-NONE 12 13 8. Countv Manager's Report 14 NONE 15 16 9. Board comments 17 Commissioner Gordon said that the Transportation Advisory Committee for the Durham- 18 Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization had met recently. She highlighted tha Y t 19 they reviewed the stimulus funding and Orange County projects are on track. There was an 20 announcement that there may be a second round of stimulus funds. If so it would come quickly. She asked the Board to ask the staff to research this and prepare a p lan of action if 22 there is more stimulus funding and what projects could be done. The Board agreed to ask th e 23 staff to do this. g 24 Commissioner Cordon asked to set aside a ortion of the agenda p g sometime this spring 25 to talk about the County financial plans for transit. Chair Foushee has been involved in the 26 leadership discussions and the plans are getting more and more firm. 27 Commissioner Yuhasz— none. 28 A motion was made by Commissioner Pelissier, seconded by Commissioner Gordon to 29 put the County's financial plans for transit on the Board of County Commissioners' agenda 30 sometime this spring. 31 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 32 33 Commissioner Pelissier said that she has been thinking about the County's funding for Y g 34 outside agencies. She said that the Human Services Advisory Committee is trying in out a new 35 ranking system. She said that there are eight or nine new organizations that will be submitting 36 proposals to the County. She is concerned about this because there is not od guidance to g 37 the people doing the ranking system about what the priorities are. 38 A motion was made by Commissioner Pelissier, seconded by Commissioner 39 Hemminger to have a discussion about how to prioritize and give guidance for makin g decisions 40 about nonprofit funding. 41 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 42 43 Commissioner Jacobs said that in the pending items it does not mention an update on 44 where there are defibrillators in buildings. Also, he said that there are a few things in the 45 Manager's Memo that are worthy of press releases. For example, there is now a mobile shelter 46 facility for pets in case of an emergency. Also, there is a huge increase nationwide in food 47 stamps. 48 Commissioner Jacobs said that the surveys of those that attended the Agricultural 49 Summit were very favorable.