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Cities for Climate Protection program, there are many counties included in the program and lobbying is taking place to change the name of the program. Dave Stancil said that the Town of Chapel Hill is considering a related project in terms of carbon reduction which might be one of the most unique projects that has been undertaken in the United States. This would involve working with UNC and at the power generation plant facility in trying to address carbon reduction. He said that there is a table included in their packet that shows a series of meetings with the Air Quality Advisory Committee. The first step would be to develop an inventory of what we are doing now and over the next month or two. The inventory will be based on the year 2000 and the forecasting will be based on the year 2025. Dave Stancil said that their intention is to bring this back on the September 7t" agenda far action and the action would be far the Board to decide whether to approve the MOA which Chapel Hill and Carrboro have already agreed to and then the execution of the contract. Commissioner Halkiotis asked what the University would be asked to do in a carbon reduction process. Would it be something like reducing automobile emissions by some kind of light rail system an campus ar something like the electric carat Duke? Commissioner Halkiotis would like to have some more information on this. Commissioner Gordon asked about the representatives from the energy industry and who would this be and what is the reason far this. Dave Stancil said it would be good to have those folks engaged in the discussion about greenhouse gases. It may not be Duke Power and it does not necessarily need to be the large utilities. Commissioner Gordon also asked about the one representative from UNC. She wanted to know was this because it is one of the entities? She understands that three entities are paying for this and apparently Hillsborough isn't. She said that however Hillsborough should be recommended as a member and so should UNC. Dave Stancil said that they would need to go back to the Town of Hillsborough to see if they wanted to participate financially. He is not sure if their Board had discussed this. He has communicated with staff and they were not interested in a financial commitment. They will test that between now and September 7t" and bring it back for action on the 7t". He also reminded the Board that they do have some grant funds from the DCHC MPO. Chair Carey said they should proceed with the planning. 4. Other Business Chair Carey said they have one more item to consider tonight and that is the resolution relating to House Bill 947, "A Bill to be Entitled An Act to Authorize Certain Counties to Levy One-Half Cent Local Sales and Use Taxes for Public School Capital Outlay Purposes and Community College Plant Fund Purposes." In summary he said that this bill seeks to provide certain county governments the opportunity to raise sales taxes, subject to a public referendum, to address school and community college capital expenses. He said that it might be possible to salvage their inclusion by taking this action to encourage the Senate to incorporate it into its plan if the Senate gets to act on something other than the lottery when and if it comes back into session. Chair Carey said that based on staff's discussion with the Board earlier today, he is going to ask Senator Kinnaird to pursue the substance of this resolution and to use her better judgment in determining what she can do. The fact that something survives the House means that the whole thing may be allowed in the short session. Chair Carey asked the Board's pleasure on basically ratifying and reaffirming what he already communicated to Senator Kinnaird on their behalf.