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APPROVED 1011!02 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />BUDGET WORK SESSION <br />June 11, 2002 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a budget work session on Tuesday, June 11, 2002 at <br />7:30 p.m. in the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioners Margaret W. Brown, <br />Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M. Gordon and Stephen H. Halkiotis (arrived at 8:25 p.m.} <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Sean Borhanian <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Manager Rad Visser, and <br />Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (all other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT AGENDA <br />FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. ALL RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING WILL BE KEPT FOR 5 YEARS. <br />1. CHAIR REVIEW OF SCHEDULE AND TOPICS <br />Chair Jacobs added a resolution to the agenda "Declaring June 11, 2002 as Reverend John R. Manley <br />Day." <br />Commissioner Carey said that Reverend Manley has been a stellar performer in human service <br />volunteerism in Orange County over the years. He said that this is an opportunity for us to honor someone <br />while they are still living and able to appreciate it. <br />A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Brown to approve and <br />authorize the Chair to sign the resolution as stated below: <br />RESOLUTION <br />FOR <br />REV. JOHN R. MANLEY DAY <br />WHEREAS, Rev. John R. Manley has been a minister and public servant in Orange County for over fifty <br />years, and <br />WHEREAS, Rev. John R. Manley is a devoted father, husband and minister at First Baptist Church in <br />Chapel Hill, and <br />WHEREAS, Rev. John R. Manley has pastored First Baptist Church for more than 50 years and <br />simultaneously pastored Hickory Grove Baptist Church for more than 40 years, and <br />WHEREAS, he still found the time to serve on the Chapel Hill-Carrbora City School Board to help steer the <br />board through the difficult time of desegregation, and <br />WHEREAS, Rev. Manley has volunteered his time in service to the community in various capacities over <br />the years to help improve race relations and the quality of life for those most in need, and <br />WHEREAS, Rev. Manley has more recently accepted the challenge of providing mare affordable housing <br />in the community for those in need, and <br />