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Chair Jacobs said that we are proud of being a progressive County. He thinks it means that we try <br />and support education in a way that leads the State and we are dedicated to providing a social safety net for <br />those in need. He said that the overriding message is that the policies that are being made at the State leve <br />are forcing us into positions that we do not believe are in the best interests of the citizens of Orange County <br />or the citizens of North Carolina. We have politicians who, in the name of trying to avoid doing what is <br />necessary to serve the people, tend to be passing it on to local government to deal with. We now have <br />leadership that thinks it is more important to seem than it is to be. <br />Commissioner Halkiotis said that there are 14 brand new 2002 Crown Victoria police cars parked <br />behind the Government Services building awaiting to be decaled with the Orange County Sheriffs <br />Department decals. He said that we were auctioning off 10 ar 12 Sheriffs cars at the end of the month. He <br />encouraged citizens to bid on those cars. All of them are listed as "burning oil" and have 180,000 miles on <br />them because they have run their course. He said that this is the kind of deliberate and planned government <br />spending that the County embarked on 10 years ago with the single vehicle fleet. He said that the State has <br />taken money from Orange County and it is a theft. So next year there will not be new Sheriff's cars and it will <br />cost the taxpayers more money. He said that if anybody would challenge Orange County to cut 20°lo fat out <br />of the budget, he would love to see this list. He challenged anyone to come and show the County <br />Commissioners where the 20°~6 fat is in County government. He said that he will not leave one child behind, <br />one senior citizen behind, one sick person behind, one mentally ill person behind, or one handicapped person <br />behind. He said that he would leave this office before he sacrifices a human being far any "no tax" <br />philosophy in North Carolina. He will care about people regardless of where they come from. <br />3. ADJOURNMENT <br />A motion was made by Cammissianer Halkiotis, seconded by Cammissianer Gordan to adjourn the <br />meeting at 10:05 p.m. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />The next meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. an June 11, 2002 at the Southern Human Services <br />Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. <br />Barry Jacobs, Chair <br />Beverly A. Blythe, CMC <br />