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VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> d. New Appointments — Steering Committee for the Piedmont Food & <br /> Agricultural Processing Center <br /> The Board considered appointing one Commissioner, one Orange County farmer, <br /> County Manager (or designee) and the Cooperative Extension Director to the Steering <br /> Committee for the Piedmont Food &Agricultural Processing Center. <br /> A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to <br /> appoint Portia McKnight to the Farmers position on the Steering Committee for the Piedmont <br /> Food and Agricultural Processing Center. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> Commissioner Jacobs volunteered to be the Board of County Commissioners' <br /> representative on this Board. Commissioner Pelissier seconded. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> e. Orange Unified Transportation Board — Removal of Member <br /> The Board considered removing one member from the Orange Unified Transportation <br /> Board. <br /> A motion was made by Commissioner Pelissier seconded by Commissioner Yuhasz to <br /> remove Mr. Eric Tillman from the OUTBoard. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs asked that Mr. Tillman be able to speak to the Board about his <br /> concerns; and noted that a similar issue had arisen when Mr. Tillman served on another board. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> 12. Board Comments <br /> Commissioner Hemminger said that the new park locator is up and running from the <br /> Intergovernmental Parks Work Group. She congratulated the Information Technology staff. <br /> This currently lists 40 parks and will map out directions to the parks. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs said that there is a groundbreaking on Wednesday, October 27th <br /> at 10:30 a.m. in Hillsborough for the food processing center. Also, there was the first planning <br /> meeting for the next Ag Summit and the tentative date is March 21st with NCA&T's Small <br /> Farmer program. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs made reference to the Solid Waste plan and said that he was <br /> specifically referring to the resolution that the Board adopted when it was dealing with transfer <br /> stations. The Board had asked staff to come back with a plan for how to create partnerships <br /> with other jurisdictions to look at alternatives to burial of solid waste that are environmentally <br /> sound and economically feasible. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs said that the County has opened many new buildings without <br /> putting any kind of plaque in the lobby to indicate when it was built, who built it, who the <br /> Manager was, and who the County Commissioners were. He asked the Manager to bring back <br /> a proposal on how to get plaques in new buildings. <br /> Commissioner Pelissier made reference to the work session in August about economic <br /> development and said that residents are asking what Orange County is going to do with the <br /> monies from the sales tax for economic development. She said that the Board needs to start <br /> discussions on this issue in upcoming work sessions on how to encourage businesses in <br /> Orange County. <br />