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Jay Bryan asked if Hillsborough had looked at the report and Mayor Johnson said that there were some issues that the County and the Town would have to work an. One of the issues is providing jobs sa people will not have to drive so far. Affordable housing is another big issue. Mark Sheridan said that the trick was how to make this a living document that plays a real rate in the decision making. Chair Halkiotis talked about the time it sometimes takes to resolve some issues. He said that there is a point where the citizens have made their recommendations and now it is time for the elected officials to talk amongst themselves. He suggested that the County Commissioner direct the staff to take the top 10 priorities and diagram out what the County is doing. Jackie Gist made reference to the merger issues and felt that they could be deleted. She found this language offensive. Chair Halkiotis said that he would like to send the diagram of the top 10 to the respective boards. Commissioner Gordon said that this report should go back to each governing board. She feels it is a very valuable report. She suggested that the task force complete all the corrections in one or two meetings and get back to the boards by May 30tH Chair Halkiotis said that he would bring this report back to the County Commissioners as an agenda item to decide how to handle it. Allen Spalt said that there has been a lot of discussion and feedback. He said that there was not a lot of disagreement about the top 10 issues. The small paints that are made are very detailed and hard to discuss. He likes Chair Halkiotis' idea of the diagram. He does not think that a group of this size can polish this document. Alex Zaffron suggested that in putting together the process that the respective governing boards evaluate the comments, which have been made by each governing board. He feels that there should be same common process and Gammon format befinreen each governing board. Chair Halkiotis feels that the task force has finished its work. He is happy with the report as it is. He is ready to sit down and do his own assessment, diagram all the things the County is currently doing, pass the diagram to the other elected bodies, and then have a small group come together to figure out what to da next. He said that every elected official has contributed significantly to many of the top 10 issues. Jim Ward said that he just wants to be sure that we do not short-circuit the desires of the task farce to incorporate the comments that have been heard. Ellen Ironside, Ca-Chair of the SOCF task farce, said that the task farce was trying to envision the future, which meant that they were leaping over many steps to come up with a scenario about what really mattered in Orange County and how we could keep the best of that and move into the next 30 years with something close to what we value. A motion was made by Chair Halkiotis, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to direct the County staff to diagram all the things the County is doing in relation to the top 10 issues in the SOCF Task Farce report, pass the diagram to the elected bodies, and have a small group come together and discuss how to proceed. VOTE: UNANIMOUS 3. UPDATE ON DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN UNC AND CHAPEL HILL Kevin Foy made this presentation. He said that the Mayor and the Chancellor set up a negotiating committee, and that committee has met a couple of times. The University has told the Town that its concerns are that it will not be able to grow in the way it has to grow in order to fulfill what it considers its mandates and what it considers necessary in order to continue to be an excellent university. The University is afraid that the Tawn is going to get in the way. The University has a plan to spend about a billion dollars in construction efforts over the next 8-10 years. The Town has looked at the community concerns about the impact of this growth -the environment, fiscal impacts, traffic,