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Bobby Clapp has three children in the Chapel Hill-Carrbaro school system. He pointed out that many in the public have paranoia about collusion with respect to the "m" ward. He thinks that many people want to make sure that responsibility and control should be left to the administrators and boards of the two school systems. He argued that the charge of collusion at the school system ar board level was not correct. He said that the vast majority of people want collaboration, but want to make sure there is a sound school system that is reflective of the respective communities. b. Matters an the Printed Agenda (These matters were considered when the Board addressed that item on the agenda below.} 3. Board Comments Commissioner Halkiotis said that since he lives in the woods, he wants to know what the rumor about merger was. Chair Jacobs said that the Clerk received a call from a reporter, who apparently had looked at the wrong year on a website. Chair Jacobs also received a call from a Daily Tarheel reporter today to ask about the discussion about merging the two school systems tonight. Commissioner Halkiotis said that a lot more people are going down NC 86 because of Hampton Pointe, and they are noticing strange behaviors, especially at the Esquire Health Club. He has spoken with several people and has received email from people who feel that prostitution is being run legally out of this establishment. This person claimed that while she was getting gas at the BP station across the street, she has seen women standing outside with their "nighties" on. He would like to address this. He would like the Manager, County Attorney, and Sheriff to bring back a full report an how this operation can function and why this is legal. He would like to know how many of these places are in North Carolina and what can be done. Commissioner Halkiotis would also like an update of the I-85 widening that will take place. He asked if the health club would go if the overpass needs to be expanded. He said that something would have to go -either the BP station or the health club. He would like to go on record to say that the health club should go and the gas station should be left. He said that he and Chair Jacobs spent a lot of time trying to get the overpass widened with the development of Hampton Pointe and he is afraid that now the taxpayers are going to have to pay for it under the umbrella of the interstate widening. Commissioner Halkiotis suggested that at the next meeting with DOT that they bring up the pedestrian and bikeways over Orange Grove Road at I-40. Commissioner Halkiotis reported that, to DOT's credit, they have set up two opportunities for citizens to be informed about bridge replacements on St. Mary's Road and Lawrence Road on September 27th from 4:30-6:30 at the C. W. Stanford Middle School media center and September 23~d from 4:00-7:00 p.m. in the Cameron Park Elementary School Library regarding the Elizabeth Brady Road extension. He thanked DOT publicly. Commissioner Carey arrived at 7:50 p.m. Commissioner Gordon said that she went to the League of Women Voters general meeting and a woman told her that she had called the County in reference to the 3R-recycling fee and the information she got back was that Orange County had been very successful in recycling, so therefore we must now charge a fee. She said that the woman felt like they were being punished for recycling. The woman suggested developing a sheet that explains how recycling saves landfill space and postpones the time that a transfer station should be built. Also, that the reason a fee has to be charged is that recycling does not pay for itself because the markets do not afford the return we would like. The woman said that this made more sense to her. She urged anyone that answers questions about this to explain it in this way.