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54 Commissioners to eliminate the adverse social, educational, and economic: impacts created by Orange County's system of six separate telephone exchanges.-- and WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners'has sought for twenty year to alleviate these adverse impacts by promoting approval of flat-rate Extended Area Service among the six telephone exchanges, and WHEREAS, the June 4, 1992 order of the North Carolina Utilities commission ordering flat-rate Extended Area Service between the Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, and Mebane exchanges made no provision for such service for customers in the Prospect Hill exchange, and WHEREAS, a group of residents of the Prospect Hill exchange has submitted a petition requesting Extended Area Service for calls between Prospect Hill and Hillsborough. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Orange County Board of Commissioners hereby reaffirms its support for flat-rate Extended Area Service between orange County telephone exchanges, and hereby expresses its support for the request of Prospect Hill telephone customers to receive such service between the Prospect Hill and Hillsborough exchanges. VOTE: UNANIMOUS V111. ITEMS FOR DECISION - REGULAR AGENDA A. PROPOSED PROCESS FOR CONSIDERATION OF RELOCATING HORACE WILLIAMS AIRPORT John Link asked that the Board consider participation in an environmental negotiation process as the next step in addressing the issue of.,. relocation of air traffic operations from the Horace Williams Airport. In answer to a question from Commissioner Insko, John Lie:_ indicated that the committee, as outlined in the proposal, would meet soon to begin discussions. Preliminary interviews have already taken place as outlined in step one of the proposal included in the agenda abstract. Step two has not been addressed. This step will address the concerns about the need for an airport, how large it should be, what functions it should have and whether or not there must be an airport in orange County. Madeline Levine spoke for the Executive Committee of SCRAP. She noted that she had been interviewed by representatives of the Virginia Institute on June 29 for 1 to 1-1/2 hours. They had a list of people to contact for further dialogue at that time. They were to get back to her the following Tuesday and she still has not heard from them. She reminded the Commissioners of the three reasons why the County Commissioners in 1989 rejected a plan for a county airport. The first is that there was nowhere to put it in Orange' County. The second was that though it had seemed as if a County airport might be an economic engine for this County, it was discovered that it was not necessary or even a workable engine and the hopes linked to it had been false. The third reason was that there was overwhelming citizen opposition. She feels these are still the reasons today. She asked that the Commissioners refuse to participate in this process. Les Brown spoke to the issue of relocating Horace Williams Airport. He feels there is no reason to reconsider locating an airport in orange County. He asked that the Commissioners say no to this issue. Steve Levine stated he feels Orange County should not participate in this process. He asked that the Commissioners stop the process and focL on other issues facing the County. Diane Bloom urged the Board to send a representative to take part