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APPROVED 12!1103 MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ASSEMBLY OF GOVERNMENTS <br />September 30, 2003 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session for an <br />Assembly of Governments meeting on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. at the <br />Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Margaret Brown and <br />Commissioners Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M. Gordon, Stephen Halkiotis and Barry Jacobs <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: Assistant County Managers Rod Visser and Gwen <br />Harvey and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker {All other staff members will be identified <br />appropriately below) <br />COUNTY STAFF ABSENT: John Link <br />CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Kevin C. Foy and <br />members Flicka Bateman, Pat Evans, Ed Harrison, Mark Kleinschmidt, Jim Ward, Edith <br />Wiggins, and Bill Strom <br />CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT: Dorothy Verkerk <br />CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Mike <br />Nelson and members Jacquelyn Gist, Diana McDuffee, Alex Zaffron, Joal Hall Broun, <br />and John Herrera <br />CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEMBERS ABSENT: Mark Dorosin <br />HILLSBOROUGH TOWN COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Frances Dancy <br />HILLSBOROUGH TOWN COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Mayor Joe Phelps and <br />members Mark Sheridan, Michael Gering, Kenneth Chavious, and Evelyn Lloyd <br />Vice Chair Gloria Foley, member Lisa Stuckey, and Superintendent Neil Pedersen <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair <br />Keith Cook, Vice Chair Brenda Stephens, and Superintendent Shirley Carraway <br />NOTE: All other participants are listed in the text as appropriate. <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE <br />PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br />Chair Brawn called the meeting to order and said that Mayor Phelps sent a note and <br />said that he could not be here tonight and sent his regrets. <br />Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy asked if it was acceptable if Thatcher Fruend made aten- <br />minute presentation. The boards agreed. <br />Thatcher Fruend said that according to a recent report by the UNC Center for Urban and <br />Regional Studies, the Triangle is eating up farmland at a rate of 3,000 acres a year. <br />This is just the farmland. We are also losing woods, wildlife habitat, and watersheds at <br />an alarming rate. He commended the County's Lands Legacy Program and Chapel Hill <br />for putting the $2 million open space bond on the ballot. He said that there is a quirk in <br />