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~1 DRAFT n i 1 2 MINUTES 3 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 4 REGULAR MEETING 5 May 8, 1998 6 7 8 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Wednesday, May 6, 1998 in the Judge 9 F. Gordon Battle Courtroom, new County Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina. to 11 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Margaret W. Brown, and Commissioners Moses 12 Carey, Jr., William L. Crowther, Alice M. Gordon and Stephen H. Halkiotis. 13 COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill 14 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Managers Rod 15 Visser and Albert Kittrell and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (All other staff members will be identified 16 appropriately below) 17 18 NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT 19 AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. ALL RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING 20 WILL BE KEPT FOR 5 YEARS. 21 22 23 1. ADDITIONS OR CHANGES TO THE AGENDA 24 The Board agreed to delete item 9-i "Lease renewal for 103 Laurel Avenue, Carrboro'. 25 The Board added to the agenda a discussion on the request from the Carrboro Board of Aldermen to form a task 26 force to develop a plan for library services in Can•boro. John Link will do a report on what has been provided to date for 27 library services in Carrboro, how it is working and public utilization. 28 The Board added a proGamation for Disability Awareness Week as item 5-e. 29 30 31 2. CITIZEN 8 AUDIENCE COMMENTS 32 a. Matters on the Printed Agenda 33 Chair Brown stated that citizens who have indicated a desire to speak on an item that appears 34 on the printed agenda will be recognized at the appropriate time. 35 36 b. Matters not on the Printed Agenda 37 Donna Miller who lives at 4310 Old Chapet Hill-Hillsborough Road, which is part of the three mile stretch 38 of highway that was given this name, spoke in support of changing the name of this road back to Old Hwy 86. She told 39 about the problems they have in getting their mail because of the long name of their road. They also have a problem 40 with 911 calls. She said it is very confusing and she asked that it be changed back to Old Hwy 86. 41 Commissioner Halkiotis presented a petition with 54 signatures representing the residents of Old Chapel Hill- 42 Hillsborough Road in their desire to change the name of the road to Old Hwy 86. The reasons are as follows: 43 44 1. The address as it is currently written has too many characters to be held by many modem 45 computers. 46 2. Attempts to abbreviate the address are not standard and cause mail to be lost. 47 3. There is extreme difficulty in giving the address verbally over the phone to companies which need to 48 send information. 49 4. Only the residents of a 2 mile stretch of the road are impacted by the address, the remainder of the 50 road is called Old Hwy 86. It would seem more logical to continue the name to the city limits of Hillsborough to 51 facilitate emergency as well as personal visitors to our homes. 52 53 Commissioner Halkiotis asked that staff bring back a recommendation on what can be done. 54 55 Mitchell Lloyd and Don Collins both spoke in support of this request to return the name of this stretch of 56 road to Old Hwy 86. 57 58