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The Board approved a lease far Suite 105 at 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC to <br />Brokerage Resource, Inc. for $1,100.00 per month and taxes-in-lieu of $100 per month. <br />~ Bid Award -Leachate Collection Piping <br />The Board awarded a bid far Leachate Collection Piping for $26,241.33. <br />z. Bid Award -Orange County Landfill Phase 4 Construction Geosynthetics <br />The Board awarded a bid far Phase 4 Construction - Geosynthetics at the Orange County <br />Landfill to Clary Hood, Inc. of Kissimmee, Florida in the amount of $346,000 and authorized the <br />Purchasing Director to execute the necessary paperwork, and authorized the County Manager to <br />execute change orders as may be necessary during the course of the installation, to the extent project <br />funds are available for this work. <br />Other bids received are listed below: <br />Reynolds - $432,500 <br />Clary Hood - $346,000 <br />Plastic Fusion - $450,479 <br />Serrot International, Inc. - $457,906.60 <br />aa. Budaet Amendment #13 <br />The Board approved budget ordinance amendments, grant project ordinance, and a capital <br />project ordinance for fiscal year 1999-2000. <br />bb. Adoption of 2000-2001 Grant and Capital Project Ordinances <br />The Board approved grant project ordinances and selected capital project ordinances in <br />accordance with the actions taken by the Board of Commissioners at the June 20, 2000 budget work <br />session. <br />cc. Chance in Board of Commissioners' Meetina Schedule <br />The Board approved a change in the Board of Commissioners' meeting schedule to change <br />the joint meeting with the two school boards from September 21, 2000 to September 25, 2000. <br />VOTE ON THE CONSENT AGENDA: UNANIMOUS <br />ITEMS REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA <br />b. Minutes <br />A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to <br />approve the highlighted draft of the minutes for March 21St and the minutes for March 23rd with the <br />changes as shown on the green sheet. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />m. Contract for Orange County Video Production <br />The Board considered approving a contract with Horizon Video Productions, Inc. to produce a <br />10-12 minute video about Orange County's departments and services to be presented at new employee <br />and board and commission orientation sessions. to citizens on cable access television. and to <br />community, civic, and educational groups <br />Commissioner Brown said that her interest in this was that the Commissioners have not had <br />any opportunity to discuss it and what it would be like. She would either like to hold this item and the <br />next item to have a presentation on it, or to put some very specific language in the contract specifying <br />when the Commissioners would be part of the review process. <br />Commissioner Jacobs said that there were three separate communication efforts going on - a <br />message to the people, an update of the web site, and this video. He does not see that these three are <br />in any way coordinated and he would like to see it be a coherent message. <br />Commissioner Gordon said that there could be some language added to say that the video, <br />the web site, and the message to the people would articulate a common and coherent theme and <br />message. Also, the Board of Commissioners would approve the effort at key intervals to be identified by <br />the Commissioners. This common theme is specified in the Strategic Communications Plan. <br />Commissioner Brown suggested having a presentation on bath of the project concepts -the <br />web site design and the video - by the proposed companies so that the Commissioners could see what <br />11 <br />