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<br />hunting. A person must live and own land in Caldwell in order to be a <br />member of this hunting club. This means they will not destroy their <br />neighbors' property. People come from Durham and Chapel Hill and they <br />don't care about the people in the area. They are only interested in <br />killing deer with no regard to the landowner. He noted that the club will <br />have a landowners supper in March and have 500 landowners and have a nice <br />family supper for the community. They also raise money for Orange High <br />School and support other activities in the area. He asked the Board to <br />disregard 90~ of the proposal. <br />CLIFF MORRIS said that there are a lot of people who could not use <br />deer stands because of physical or other reasons. He said that the <br />violators are nonresidents who lease property and cross property lines and <br />don't care. These nonresidents are dangerous to the community. He feels <br />that the $50 fine is not enough for people who trespass on other people's <br />property. Posting of the land is good but a larger fine is needed for <br />those who trespass. <br />MAC MCDADE, member of the Hunting and Fishing Committee, said that <br />these proposals were never brought before the Committee. Colonel Breeze <br />and Sheriff Pendergrass both indicated they have not met on these <br />proposals. These were proposals from private citizens. <br />CARL WALTERS said that he has 500 acres on which to hunt and that he <br />is safety conscious. Never once did they have a problem with a hunting <br />club. The problems are with outsiders. He asked for help on the <br />nonresidents who come in and do what they please. Most of them are from <br />Alamance County. <br />EDDIE REMMICK, resident of Cedar Grove, reiterated that a lot of the <br />hunting problem is from out-of-county residents. He feels that in order to <br />make this a safer place to live that something needs to be done about the <br />crack houses which are all over the neighborhoods. <br />Commissioner Halkiotis made reference to the Hunting and Fishing <br />Ordinance Committee and asked if they in fact reviewed these proposals and <br />made the report as indicated in the agenda. He suggested that the process <br />be reviewed to be sure that everything goes through this Committee. He <br />noted that he has found most hunters in this County to be serious <br />individuals. <br />John Link said that they did have a meeting about two months ago. <br />However, some members of the citizens committee were not in attendance when <br />these discussions took place. These are comments and recommendations that <br />came from individual citizens. The Committee has taken no position on <br />these proposals. <br />Chair Carey said that the full committee will take these comments <br />received tonight into consideration when making their final report. <br />A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner <br />Halkiotis to refer the comments received tonight back to the Committee for <br />them to review and bring back a recommendation. <br />