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APPROVED 6130199 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />February 2, 1999 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, February 2, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. in <br />the F. Gordon Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Alice M. Gordon and Commissioners Margaret W. <br />Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Stephen H. Halkiotis and Barry Jacobs <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Managers Rod <br />Visser and Albert Kittrell and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (All other staff members will be identified <br />appropriately below) <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE <br />PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br />1. ADDITIONS OR CHANGES TO THE AGENDA <br />The County Commissioners agreed to add to the agenda as item 9e1 a funding proposal for "Additional Funding <br />for Process to Determine Whether to Challenge the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Staff's proposed finding of No <br />Significant Additional Hazard for Storage of Waste Nuclear Fuel Rods at Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant." <br />2. CITIZEN & AUDIENCE COMMENTS <br />a. Matters on the Printed Agenda <br />Chair Gordon requested that citizens who wish to speak to an item on the printed agenda to please sign the <br />clipboard in the back of the room so that they will be recognized at the appropriate time. <br />b. Matters not on the Printed Agenda <br />Peggy Pollitzer, member of the Shaping Orange County's Future Task Force, distributed an interim report. <br />She said that the Task Force reviewed all the information they gathered and studied how to make it a manageable piece <br />of work. They formed eight (8) focus groups. They formed a committee to develop a process they could use in looking <br />at issues without creating conflicts. The committee drew up a value statement on which they all agreed. They <br />developed some working goals and objectives which they will use in their process when developing scenarios. County <br />staff gathered statistical information which they will use as a basis for their scenarios. They meet next week and will <br />start the process of looking at issues and developing some recommendations. They hope to have an interim report in <br />April and a final report with recommendations by the end of the summer. <br />PUBLIC CHARGE <br />Chair Gordon dispensed with the reading of the public charge. <br />3. BOARD COMMENTS <br />Commissioner Halkiotis asked staff if there has been any formal response to letters sent out a couple of months <br />ago on behalf of Mr. Campos. He asked for an update at the next meeting. He commended Chair Gordon for keeping <br />the County Commissioners posted on the CP&L issue. He is concerned because Orange County has public hearings <br />for such issues as changing the name of a road, or for a subdivision request or siting a gas station. However, we have <br />a proposal to house spent nuclear rods and the process we are subjected to bothers him. He is disturbed that CP&L <br />made comments that only one County Commissioner attended the tour of their facility. If he had known that they were <br />going to be beaten up in the press because only one County Commissioner attended, he would have attended. Now <br />CP&L won't allow our consultant into the facility. He feels that when we get to the point of intervening that it will be <br />important that we have a strong paper trail. He made reference to some newspaper articles that supported an open