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`~..: <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />REGULAR MEETING c <br />JUNE 28, 1989 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Wednesday, <br />June.28, 1,989 at 7:30 p.m, in the courtroom of the old Post Office, Chapel Hill, <br />North Carolina. <br />BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairman Moses Carey, Jr, and Commissioners Stephen <br />Halkiotis (arrived at 7:50), John Hartwell and Shirley E. Marshall. <br />BOARD MEMBER ABSENT: Don Willhoit <br />ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Managers <br />Albert Kittrell and Ellen Liston, Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe, Planning <br />Director Marvin Collins, Housing and Community Development Director Tara Pikes, <br />Purchasing Director Pam Jones, Tax Assessor Kermit Lloyd, Sanitarian Tony Laws, <br />Social Services Accountant Rick Poole, Land Records Manager Roscoe Reeve, Planners <br />Mary Scearbo and Emily Crudup, County Engineer Paul Thames, EMS Director Nick <br />Waters, and Personnel Director Addie Wright Turner. <br />A. BOARD AND MANAG$RS COMMENTS <br />The following changes were made to the agenda: <br />1. The words "as amended" were added to items F13, F20 and F21. <br />2. Municipal appointments to the EDC were added <br />3. Item G5 entitled "Carrboro Town Commons Farmer's Market" was added to the <br />agenda. <br />County Manager John Link regorted that progress has been made to resolve the <br />mosquito problem in the Ridgefield Road area. A biological pesticide named BTI <br />will be used in the affected areas and will address the problem for one month at a <br />time. The Town of Chapel Hill will be responsible for this program. <br />Link confirmed that the adopted budget does include the $110 user fee for <br />convalescent transports, These are transports that are pre-scheduled and involve <br />the need for ambulance transportation from a nursing home or residence to a <br />hospital or doctors office. The patient usually is one who is unable to walk and <br />is in need of that level of transportation. It is not a life threatening or acute <br />situation and transport can be pre-planned. Transports will be considered non <br />emergency when it is an emergency (someone breaks a leg) but is not life <br />threatening. , <br />Commissioner Marshall questioned if convalescent transports would provide <br />transportation back home for those persons who arrive at the hospital as an <br />emergency case and when ready to be dismissed are no longer considered an <br />emergency. John Link indicated that that kind of situation will be addressed with <br />the hospital, the rescue squads and the county's paid staff. <br />It was decided that a meeting with the Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce and a <br />meeting with the Rural Character consultant, Planning Board and Rural Character <br />Committee would be scheduled after mid August, <br />Chairman Carey stated it has been brought to his attention that some of the <br />Orange County residents are having difficulty using the green boxes on the western <br />side of the County, It is assumed that Alamance County citizens are dumping trash <br />in those green boxes, He asked that a determination be made as to the extent those <br />