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The Board considered text amendments to the Resolution Creating an Orange County Arts commission to grant the Arts Commission the authority to award Arts Commission grants. Commissioner Gordon made reference to the yellow sheet and asked if there are any other boards and commissions that award monies. Frank Clifton said that what drives this issue in this case is that this is a State rule versus a county rule. The Arts Commission is designated to make these awards. The attempt of this resolution is to clarify this and give the Arts Commission authority consistent with the State rules. He said that this is a procedural issue. Commissioner Gordon said that no other advisory boards award monies. She said that it is not clear to her that it is just State dollars. She said that she would be ok with it if the County Commissioners did provide some oversight. Frank Clifton said that the State set up the arts grants to go to a local agency or body that makes the awards. Most counties do not have a publicly operated arts commission. There is a conflict in the State rules and the local processes. Annette Moore said that this does allow the Arts Commission to designate the monies and it can be modified. She said that she made it consistent so that both pots of money— one awarded in the fall and one awarded in the spring — are handled in the same manner. Some of the money for the grants comes from state and some comes from the county. Commissioner Jacobs said that the County Commissioners have been working to have all advisory boards consistent in the by-laws and other aspects. This is a commission that will have different terms than the other boards and commissions. He does not understand why they would go to all the trouble to approve the resolution creating the commission and then later in the agenda make the appointments. He said that it does not seem very organized or thorough. He suggested fixing it all at once. He said that he would like to see who received the arts grants for the past five years. He said that the same people get the awards, it seems, and he does not think the process seems very open. Commissioner Yuhasz said that if the State requires a designated entity to give the awards, then they could designate someone else and Frank Clifton said yes. Commissioner Yuhasz said that this item should be deferred until some of the questions are answered. A motion was made by Commissioner Yuhasz, seconded by Commissioner Gordon to defer this item until the Board's questions could be resolved. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Commissioner Gordon read from the abstract, "No organization which is a potential recipient of County arts funding shall have on the Commisison more than two people who serves on its board or staff." She said that when they make the appointment, this should be considered. Changes in BOCC Regular Meeting Schedule for 2010 The Board considered two changes in the County Commissioners' regular meeting calendar for year 2010. Chair Foushee said that this was pulled so that the first bullet could be removed, and the meeting with the City of Mebane needs to be added to September 9th Commissioner Hemminger asked if the 1/4 —cent sales tax could be added to the Assembly of Governments agenda. Chair Foushee said that there might not be enough time, but she can see if the other entities want to do this. Commissioner Jacobs said that he and Commissioner Yuhasz have been working on the solid waste plan and they tried to get it on the AOG in the spring but that did not work. He