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5 1 Commissioner Jacobs said that phase one was just the grading. 2 Commissioner Brown said that the usage of fields should be very clear in this 3 agreement. 4 Commissioner Carey said that the Joint Use Agreement should be reinforced as often as 5 possible. 6 Commissioner Brown made reference to C-3 and asked to add that whenever money is 7 spent on park designs and planning that a County Commissioner be involved in the design 8 process and that the expenditure for this process be approved by the Board of County 9 Commissioners. She has concerns about people spending money on plans and designs and 10 then dumping them. 11 The Board discussed the language for the sentence that Commissioner Brown wanted to 12 add to item C-3 as follows: "Any such funding should be subject to County Commissioners' 13 approval and a Commissioner may be appointed to any planning/design process as deemed 14 appropriate by the County Commissioners." The Board agreed on this sentence by consensus. 15 Staff will bring these recommendations back with all the changes. It will be put on the 16 December 7`h Consent Agenda. 17 A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Carey to 18 adopt the recommendations of the School/Parks Reserve Committee as revised and suggested 19 by Commissioners Gordon and Jacobs and amended with the one sentence suggested by 20 Commissioner Brown. 21 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 22 23 Commissioner Jacobs said that the Carrboro Board of Aldermen understands that the 24 Board will not entertain any proposals for parks until after the first of the year. He was not 25 aware that any comments were made in that regard. He said that he was operating under the 26 assumption that the Board likes this one-to-one match that is mentioned in the document that 27 was just endorsed. He said that even if there is talk about using bond money that one-to-one 28 matches should be envisioned. He asked if another policy statement should be adopted that 29 deals with bond monies that is not part of the School/Parks Fund. 30 31 3. CRITERIA FOR PARKLAND ACQUISITION 32 The Board discussed the criteria for evaluating possible land acquisition. Chair Gordon 33 mentioned the "existence of matching funds from a requesting jurisdiction"from the agenda 34 abstract and said that when the criteria is discussed that the Board could always say that they 35 expect at least a one-to-one match. She said that the staff is suggesting that the Board adopt 36 these criteria on an interim basis. 37 Commissioner Carey asked about the weighting system of the criteria and he was told 38 that this would be brought back at a later time after the Board adopts the criteria. 39 The Board agreed to say that at least a one-to-one match would be expected. 40 Commissioner Brown said that if any of the criteria is not applicable, then it should be 41 noted. 42 The Board agreed to add the following Parklands Acquisition Criteria: 43 1. The Board expects at least a one-to-one match of funds from a requesting 44 jurisdiction 45 2. All criteria are applicable 46 3. Cost— relative impact on County resources available and past contributions 47 4. Amount of resources already invested and previous commitments to that entity 48 5. Geographical location to the area to be served 49 6. Centrally located for the targeted population 50 7. Relationship to the inventory of existing facilities 51 52 Commissioner Carey made reference to the statements "Appropriate intensity of use for 53 the area" and "Land for active recreation is suitable and appropriate for planned uses" and 54 asked if this was a duplication.