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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 4, 1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No 9•~ <br />SUBJECT: AMEND BOCC RULES OF PROCEDURE (Rule 11) <br />-------------------------------- <br />DEPARTMENT County Commissioners <br />-------------------------------- <br />----------------------------- <br />PUBLIC HEARING YES NO x <br />ATTACHMENT (S) <br />Survey of Area Governments <br />Rules of Procedures for BOCC <br />Under Separate Cover <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT: _ YES NO <br />INFORMATION CONTACT <br />Commissioner Bill Crowther <br />TELEPHONE NUMBER <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Mebane 227-2031 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />----------------------------------------------------------------------- <br />PURPOSE: To include some time for inspiration as part of our regular <br />meetings. Our meetings are filled with the processing of information <br />and knowledge. It would be refreshing to include a special time for <br />inspiration and discernment as part of the process. <br />BACKGROUND: A survey of the surrounding counties is attached. Looking <br />back at County records since December, 1936, this has never been a part <br />of the regular meeting except as requested by a County Commissioner for <br />a specific reason. <br />RECOMMENDATION::..Amend the HOCC Rules of Procedure Rule 11 to include the <br />Pledge of Alleg#ancsm"' and "Moment for Meditation" immediately following <br />the "Call to Ordi~"~ at the beginning of all regular meetings. <br />1) Moa~sit defined as ^sufficient length of time at Chair's <br />discretion <br />2) Meditation defined as: silent act of sacred and/or civil <br />contemplation <br />