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"'~~7{ Vir inia Cunnin ham , President of the League of Women Voters, read a 4 •.~!' prepared statement. A copy of the statement is included in the permanent agenda located .in the Clerk's Office. Ms. Linda Roberts read a letter submitted by J.V. and Opal e. __ Brockwell, Calvander residents. A copy of the letter is included in the permanent agenda in the Clerk's Office. Ms. Roberts then introduced her- self and commented as follows: "I am a 26 year resident of Calvander and a member of the Calvander Community Association. I am one of those so-called selfish Calvander residents. My roots go back in Calvander many years to my dad's 60-year residence and my mom's 47-year residence as well as my grandparents who lived in Calvander from 1925 until they passed away. During that 60-year period they purchased the Calvander homeplace, the Calvander School site and other surrounding property totaling approximately 70 acres. Carrboro is now- trying to take control of us and destroy that. My husband and I have raised our three children here and they appear to love it just as much as we do. We have some very good neighbors and are very thankful for it. We all enjoy being rural residents. As a land owner and tax paying citizen, of Orange County, I would like everyone here tonight to know that I am bitterly opposed to Carrboro having any control of Calvander whatsoever, much less total control. We have absolutely no representatives from Calvander in Carrboro. As it is now, we have you as County Commissioners, who are elected by us, county residents, to represent us. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for giving us this chance to speak. All residents whom I have talked with feel as I do about the swap. The very idea of Carrboro trying to swap the watershed area for total control of 1805 acres of land is ludicrous. They have the watershed now and if they can't handle that, let them give it back to the County. It is grossly unfair to try to use us as their bargaining chip. I think one of the most important questions we need to ask here tonight is has Carrboro really been a good steward. Z think most would have to agree that the answer is no. If they had, they would not be trying to go into the watershed with their development. They planned to put a road across Morgan Creek which is less than a mile from University Lake .just so they could connect Hwy. 54 with Airport Road. It took several meetings and speeches from environmental experts to make them understand how that would severely damage the drinking water of by polluting it with lead from the road runoff. zf Carrboro gained total control, I wonder if the people of Calvander can expect our community to look as bad in a few years as Carrboro does now with buildings and apartments piled on top of each other in every direction you look, streets that are sa crowded and torn up they are always impassable. Well, we all know what a mess it is for approximately two square miles which they now control and we don't want that to happen to our community. These are only a f`w examples of why it is so important to us to remain in the County's jurisdiction. This is not a slap against the general population of Carrboro. It is placed toward governme;~t which the people there are stuck with. The Carrboro officials have enou;~~ to keep them busy for the next 25 years if they want to clean up tixcir own back yard and stay out of ours. If we wanted to live in their kir~,_i o£ environment, we would all move to Carrboro. Maybe that would make Carrboro officials happy, for they would not have to