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� <br /> meet monthly for the first six months. Staff has already done interviews of five candidates. <br /> The tentative date for opening the center is April 15tn <br /> Commissioner Jacobs made reference to the calendar from the AHAB and said that <br /> Eno Haven is one of the projects listed for August. He would like to get a report on this project <br /> because the County gave $1 million for this. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs said that it seems unfair to impose an impact fee on someone <br /> that is moving a house to a lot that is not being used. He said that this is a huge disincentive <br /> to deconstruction if someone deconstructed a house and moved it to an empty lot. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs made reference to the pending items sheet and asked if <br /> everything was finished that happened before December 14th. He asked for an update. <br /> Greg Wilder said that staff could put together a list of outstanding items. <br /> Commissioner Foushee said that Chair Pelissier, Commissioner McKee, and she <br /> attended the NCACC Legislative Goals Conference, and the Governor announced that she <br /> would not recommend the privatization of liquor sales in North Carolina. She was happy to <br /> hear this. They voted on the priority goals from the NCACC and nothing has changed. There <br /> was some discussion about clarification on one of the policy statements regarding the <br /> legislature determining whether counties had the ability to consolidate school systems. All of <br /> the goals are related to maintaining or retaining the control that counties have. <br /> Commissioner Foushee said that another item discussed was involuntary annexation <br /> where municipalities are not providing services within the five-year period after annexation. <br /> The language that will be brought forward will ask that this be reduced to three years rather <br /> than five. <br /> Chair Pelissier said that she attended the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools legislative <br /> breakfast last week. Representative Hackney noted that the item in the budget where there is <br /> the most flexibility in the State level is education. David Price also came and highlighted how <br /> there is some talk about eliminating the Department of Education. <br /> Chair Pelissier said that earlier this week there was the school collaboration meeting <br /> and the County has received a letter from the CHCCS Board asking the County <br /> Commissioners to reconsider the funding formula for capital projects. Right now the formula is <br /> 60% for schools and 40% for the County. CHCCS was asking for it to change to 80% for the <br /> schools and 20% for the County. It was agreed that at the next meeting, County staff will <br /> come up with some alternative scenarios for addressing the issue of funding formulas for <br /> schools —the 48.1% as well as the capital funding distribution. <br /> Chair Pelissier said that she has organized, along with Mayor Kleinschmidt, a meeting <br /> related to transit. This will be a small group to make presentations to the Towns and the <br /> University about where we are so far and ask for feedback about proceeding with a %2-cent <br /> sales tax referendum. If there is not buy-in with all of the Towns and the University on the <br /> Orange County Transit Plan, then there will be no Orange County Transit Plan. She has <br /> asked Commissioner Foushee to be on this group and she will report back as to how this <br /> proceeds. <br /> 13. Information Items <br /> • December 14, 2010 BOCC Meeting Follow-up Actions List <br /> 14. Closed Session <br /> A motion was made by Commissioner Foushee, seconded by Commissioner Yuhasz to <br /> go into closed session at 9:48 PM for the following: <br />