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� <br /> APPROVED 8/17/2010 <br /> MINUTES <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> REGULAR MEETING <br /> June 1, 2010 <br /> 7:00 p.m. <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, June 1, <br /> 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the DSS Offices, Hillsborough Commons, in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Valerie P. Foushee, and Commissioners <br /> Alice M. Gordon, Barry Jacobs, Mike Nelson, Bernadette Pelissier, and Steve Yuhasz <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Pam Hemminger <br /> COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br /> COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Frank Clifton, Assistant County Managers <br /> Willie Best and Gwen Harvey, and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker (All other staff inembers <br /> will be identified appropriately below) <br /> NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br /> AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br /> 1. Additions or Chanqes to the Aqenda <br /> A motion was made by Commissioner Hemminger, seconded by Commissioner Yuhasz <br /> to add an item to the agenda — proposed 3-b, Recognition of Tax Administrator Jo Roberson — <br /> Recipient of the William A. Campbell Award. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> 2. Public Comments <br /> a. Matters not on the Printed Aqenda <br /> Guerry O'Briant read a prepared statement: <br /> To: Orange County Commissioners <br /> From Guerry O'Briant/Marie Ministero <br /> Date: June 1, 2010 <br /> Subject: Transcription errors/over charged property taxes PIN #9845886455 <br /> In May 2005 Marie and I moved to Orange County after being moved out of the home my dad <br /> was born in 1901 by the North Carolina Railroad Company under threat of condemnation. As <br /> we were physically moving in, two Orange County tax assessors came to appraise the house <br /> and garage. At that time, my wife and I told them that the garage was not going to be <br /> completed because the Orange County Planning Department told us that the area over the <br /> garage could not be habitated. My two sisters, Alene Thomas and Linda Justice, were helping <br /> with the move and heard us tell the assessors that garage has no plans to be finished. They <br /> proceeded to look over the house, basement, and garage. It was evident that the basement <br /> and area over the garage were not completed and with no plans to be completed (Reference: <br /> section 5, page 1, highlighted). The tax records show the garage as attached. As you can <br />