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APPROVED 11/15/2005 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />WITH THE BOARD OF SOCIAL SERVICES <br />WORK SESSION <br />September 13, 2005 <br />5:30 p.m. <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met far a Work Session with the <br />Board of Sacial Services an Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 5:30 p.m. at the <br />Government Services Center in Hillsborough, NC. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Carey and Commissioners <br />Valerie Foushee, Alice M. Gordon and Barry Jacobs <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Stephen H. Halkiotis <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoff Gledhill <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County <br />Manager Gwen Harvey and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker (all other staff members <br />will be identified appropriately below) <br />BOARD OF SOCIAL SERVICES MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Rosetta Wash, <br />Vice Chair Joe Robbins, Commissioner Foushee <br />BOARD OF SOCIAL SERVICES MEMBERS ABSENT: Fabiola Porras and Harold <br />Russell <br />DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES STAFF PRESENT: Director Nancy <br />Coston and staff members Gwen Price, Joyce Lee, Lindsey Shewmaker, Yvette Smith, <br />Dustin Lowell and Denise Shaffer <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE <br />PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br />1. Welcome and Introductions <br />Chair Carey welcomed everyone to the meeting. He said that Commissioner <br />Halkiotis is out of town. <br />Everyone present introduced themselves. <br />DSS Board Chair Rosetta Wash thanked the Board of County Commissioners for <br />their support of the Department of Social Services and for the opportunity to meet and <br />share some of the things going an in Sacial Services. She apologized for having to <br />leave early but as Executive Director for the American Red Cross she has a training <br />session this evening with volunteers preparing to assist with the Hurricane Katrina <br />disaster. She said Vice-Chair Joe Robbins would present the Board's report. <br />Joe Robbins said that DSS staff member Lindsey Shewmaker has copies of the <br />DSS Board's annual report for anyone who would like to have one. <br />Commissioner Jacobs asked Rosetta Wash how many families had the American <br />Red Cross assisted so far in Orange County and she said that they have assisted 35 <br />families from the disaster area (Mississippi and Southern Alabama} and these families <br />are mostly sheltered in hotels. She said others are with family members and some have <br />found apartments. She said that the Red Cross was training volunteers to be deployed <br />to the gulf area and that they have trained over 80 people. <br />Ms. Wash said that donations are coming in from the community through their <br />chapter and also on-line and now the concentration is to make sure volunteers are <br />