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•r <br />1 <br />APPROVED 10/19/93 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />OCTOBER 4, 1993 <br />SPECIAL MEETING <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in Special .Session at 6:30 <br />p.m. on Monday, October 4, 1993 at the Old Courthouse in Hillsborough, North <br />Carolina. The purpose of this meeting was to receive input from the County <br />Commissioners on meeting space and other space needs in the proposed Southern <br />Human Services Building. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr., and Commissioners <br />Alice M. Gordon, Stephen H. Halkiotis, Verla C. Insko and Don Willhoit. <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant <br />County Managers Albert Kittrell and Rod Visser, Clerk to the Board Beverly A. <br />Blythe and Purchasing Director Pam Jones. <br />MEETING ROOM IN THE NEW SOUTHERN HUMAN SERVICES COMPLEX <br />Architects from Haken and Coley presented a layout of the Southern Human <br />Services Building showing all the groups which will be using the facility. <br />They stated that they have had a request of 36,000 sq.ft. from all the user <br />groups. The multi-purpose room which could be used for a County Commissioners <br />meeting room would be 2, 000 to 2, 500 sq. ft. with a flat floor. This room would <br />also be used for the nutrition groups and other meetings. All areas are <br />secured at night leaving the meeting room open. <br />It was the consensus of the Board to wire the room for cable. They <br />decided after a brief discussion not to have a dedicated office for the County <br />Commissioners. Commissioner Gordon expressed her desire to have a decent place <br />for the County Commissioners to meet with citizens. The architect will look <br />at the shared space to see if one can be used for that purpose as well as house <br />file cabinets. When it is not being used by a County Commissioner it could be <br />used by others as a conference room. <br />The Board agreed to a permanent seating arrangement with permanent audio <br />visual capabilities and a permanent microphone system. <br />The Board talked about having a common intake area. They would like to <br />have as much central intake as possible. Pam Jones indicated they would take <br />that into consideration. <br />With no further items to discuss, Chair Carey adjourned the Special <br />Meeting. The next meeting will be held this same day at 7:30 p.m. in the <br />courtroom of the Old Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />Moses Carey, Jr., Chair <br />Beverly A. Blythe, Clerk <br />