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~~~ 3 get a sense of support and interest amour, County Commissioners. If there is enough support Triangle J will plan to submit recommendations to the legislature in the long session beginning in February. He outlined the simi laries betvreen the Orange County Program and the Triangle J's Program. Commissioner Lloyd expressed two concerns: (1) term of district, anc, (2) hour the critical areas are handled. Commissioner i•7alker indicated he felt the 10-20n below use value _ inequitable and sarong and duplicating something that is already in place. Blaha explained the intention behind this approach is to help ... farmers who want to farm from being forced from farming because of rising taxes, annexation, nuisance suits, assessments, etc. It gives the farmer the incentive to reinvest and provides security. Aob Tennant explained critical areas are those areas that talcs above normal practices to establish it in some pezmanent vegetation or for some means of erosion control. They produce a high amount of sediment and need to be corrected by above normal far.:,ing practices. T•;otion was made by Commissioner ~•Thitted, seconded by Commissioner t~iarshall that the legislation for the proposed Agricultural Lands Preservation Program be forwarded to the delegation with the recommended changes from the staff on items B & C to conform with the report. VOTE: Ayes, 3; Noes, 2 (Commissioners Lloyd and >•?alker) (lotion was made by Commissioner Piarshall, seconded by Commissioner Y?hitted to send a resolution to the delegation stating that Orange County does not aisagree with the Triangle J program, that there are minor differences between the Triangle J program and the Orange County program. VOTE: Ayes, 3; PIoes, 2 (Commissioners Lloyd and TValker) A an G F:enneth Thompson, County Teenager, pointed out that the two classifi- cation and pay recommendation. reports are being presented for consideration; one prepared by Dr. Hayman of the institute of Government far non-merit system positions and one study prepared by John Swift, Department of Fiuman Resources, for merit system positions. Beverly t~?hitehead, Director of Personnel, reviewed John Swift's report stating essentially .no changes since the Play report. Commissioner iiarshall noted that the Social Services Board has re- viewed the report and understand the rationale for all changes in the Department of Social. Services. Dr. Hayman outlined the objectives of the pay plan and the process followed ir. reviewing the findings and explained the system used in recording _. the salary data. The class specifications were prepared from personal interviews and questionnaires completed by the employees. These were each placed in a class, then allocated to levels and comparative salary data was secured in order to recommend salaries that would be fair and equitable and • competitive in the labor market from where the County recruits. The introduc- tion in the report lists some of the factors used in classifying the positions and also the hey wards which indicate the level of knowledge and level of experience that is required for each of the positions. The level and class specifications were determined by: (1) knowledge required to do the job; (2) supervisory controls; (3) e::tent and comple::ity of the duties and responsibilities; (d) nor~nnal r.nnt~r.tce