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APPROVED 04120/2004 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS REGULAR MEETING February 19, 2004 7:30 p.m. The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Thursday, February 19, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. in the Southern Human Services Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs, Commissioner Margaret Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M. Gordon, and Stephen Halkiotis COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill and S. Sean Borhanian COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Managers Rod Visser and Gwen Harvey and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker {All other staff members will be identified appropriately below} NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. ALL RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING WILL BE KEPT FOR 5 YEARS. 1. ADDITIONS OR CHANGES TO THE AGENDA Chair Jacobs made reference to the sky-blue colored paper and said that it was a substitute for 5-a. The aqua colored paper is a substitute for item 9-b. Two items have been deferred. Regarding item 9-a, Plan for Park at Efland-Cheeks, staff is in the process of hiring someone for the design work. This person will be hired within the next month. He has asked staff to give their opinion on whether to wait on the hiring of a construction manager. John Link said that they would came back with this item on March 18tH Chair Jacobs said that item 9-d is also being deferred. The applicant has requested that it be deferred to a future meeting. PUBLIC CHARGE The Chair dispensed with the reading of the public charge. 2. PUBLIC COMMENTS a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda Pat Sanford distributed a handout of the recommendations of the North Carolina House Interim Committee on the Prevention and Disposition of Unwanted and Abandoned Companion Animals Subcommittee on Overpopulations. She said that this is one of the biggest efforts throughout North Carolina to get a handle on the overpopulation. She urged the County Commissioners to talk with their legislators to support this. The subcommittee unanimously approved the Buncombe County plan that is already in place that all animals in that county must be spayed or neutered, or the owners must have a special breeder's permit on each animal that is not spayed or neutered. Other recommendations include spay and neuter all cats and dogs prior to adoption from private ar public shelters ar rescue organizations, expand funding/participation in North Carolina's existing low cost spay and neuter program, differentiated licensing, statewide rabies vaccination database, sterilization of impounded animals, mobile spay neuter units and high volumelregionalized spay neuter clinics, and differential fines for animals at large. She urged the County Commissioners to put in place a higher differential licensing than is in place now.