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APPROVED 09/20/2005 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />August 16, 2005 <br />7:30 p.m. <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, August <br />16, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. in the F. Gordon Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Carey and Commissioners Valerie <br />P. Foushee, Alice M. Gordon, Stephen Halkiotis, and Barry Jacobs <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <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 Changes to the Agenda <br />Chair Carey welcomed everyone to the meeting. There were no additions or changes. <br />PUBLIC CHARGE <br />The Chair dispensed with the reading of fhe public charge. <br />2. Public Comments <br />a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda <br />Tom Magnuson said that, on short notice, the Trading Path Association, has decided to <br />apply for an NEH grant to do some archeological testing and to coordinate a regional tourism <br />package with Orange, Durham, and Person Counties. The Trading Path Association would like <br />an endorsement from the Board for this grant, but the grant must be in by the middle of <br />September. He asked the Board to take this into consideration and to delegate a department to <br />help them with this grant. <br />Chair Carey asked him to give the information to the Manager's office. <br />b. Matters on the Printed Agenda <br />{These matters were considered when the Board addressed that item on the agenda <br />below.) <br />3. Baard Camments <br />Commissioner Gordon said that at the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Transportation <br />Advisory Committee Meeting, they reviewed the 2006-2012 Metropolitan Transportation <br />Improvement Program {MTIP) and approved it. There were some differences between the <br />group's and the State's plan. They are doing aone-year plan this year to go right into the 2007- <br />