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APPROVED 10/05/2004 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />AUGUST 17, 2004 <br />7:30 p.m. <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, August 17, <br />2004 at 7:30 p.m. in the F. Gordon Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs, and Commissioners <br />Margaret Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M. Gordon, and Stephen Halkiotis <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill and S. Sean Borhanian <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County <br />Managers Rod Visser and Gwen Harvey and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker (All other staff <br />members will be identified appropriately below} <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br />AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. ALL RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING WILL BE <br />KEPT FOR 5 YEARS. <br />1. Additions or Chanaes to the Aaenda <br />9-b - (white sheet) an addition <br />5-b-1 - (salmon) A substitute for Board of Health Reappointments. These are the first <br />full terms for these members. <br />5-b-3 - (rose) New abstract for Human Services <br />9-d-2 - (orange sheet} -There are now three vacancies instead of two on the <br />Commission far the Environment. <br />Chair Jacobs said that they polled the Board on changing the closed session from after <br />the September 9th meeting to right before it, and no one wanted it changed. <br />PUBLIC CHARGE <br />The Chair dispensed with the reading of fhe public charge. <br />2. Public Comments <br />a. Matters not an the Printed Agenda <br />Julie Noel has an 8-year old son, Drew that has Asberger Syndrome. This affects <br />children differently. Peer interactions, intentions, and social cues sometimes seem like a <br />foreign language to Drew. He experiences extreme anxiety and meltdowns when he does not <br />understand. He is in a mainstream classroom at school, and has an effective IEP to be <br />successful at school. Before that, his anxieties during less structured times of the day led to <br />meltdowns. His medication is somewhat helpful, but Drew has had less success in the after <br />school and summer programs. She said that, despite describing her son's disability and the <br />