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VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />A motion was made by Commissioner Foushee seconded by Commissioner Carey to <br />adopt the attached revised ordinance, which will amend the Regulated Recyclable Materials <br />Ordinance, and to direct the Manager and the Budget Director as part of the Solid VIlaste annual <br />budget presentation to present the accounting of permits, relocations, and appeals. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />9. Items for Decision--RegularAgenda <br />a. Next Steps on District Elections for the Board of County Commissioners for a <br />November 2006 Referendum <br />The Board considered the next steps on district elections far the Board of County <br />Commissioners for a November 2006 referendum; reviewed and discussed additional sets of <br />mapslplans, statistical data, and draft transition plans for a potential seven-member Board of <br />Commissioners; and considered any action, questions, and any further direction to staff. <br />Chair Jacobs said that after the last time they considered this, they realized that they <br />needed to define the lines of the districts and Commissioner Carey asked staff to prepare <br />another proposal. Commissioner Foushee and he met with staff an this and he and <br />Commissioner Halkiotis met once with staff and they came back with proposals A and B. <br />Geof Gledhill said that all of the proposals including A, B, Commissioner Corey's <br />proposal, and Commissioners Jacobs' proposal #3 will create aseven-member Board and each <br />would have a different number of district representatives and a different number of at-large <br />representatives. All of them would be nominated and elected by all Orange County citizens. <br />Commissioner Gordon would like to reconsider the motion an page 8, which states: <br />"A motion was made by seconded by Commissioner Jacobs for staff to prepare a <br />resolution, a map and a transition plan to be sent to referendum in November 2006, for o 7- <br />member Board of County Commissioners, with 2 members from residential districts in rural <br />Orange County, and at least two members and not more than three members from a residential <br />district in Chapel Hill Township, with the remainder being at-large members. These 7 <br />commissioners would be nominated and elected at-large. This proposal is reflected in Proposal <br />2, but need not be limited exactly to the district designs in Proposal 3." <br />Geaf Gledhill said that if they want to consider another proposal tonight they do not have <br />to reconsider that motion. <br />Commissioner Gordon said that she was going to move to reconsider because she <br />thinks the parameters in the motion are too restrictive for what they are trying to do tonight, but <br />since Geaf Gledhill advises them that they do not have to da that, then they can discuss what <br />they want to discuss. She has concerns about proposals that restrict our discussion to a seven <br />member board that has not more than three members from a residential district in Chapel Hill <br />Township and two members from residential districts in the rest of Orange County. She feels <br />that a district map drown using those guidelines would be flawed and she wants that on the <br />record. <br />A motion was mode by Commissioner Halkiotis to approve proposal B, which provides <br />for two districts -district 1 would have two members and district 2 would have one member and <br />there would be four at-large members. He thinks that this would be in the best interest of the <br />citizens in the long-term. <br />Commissioner Halkiotis said that he was talking to others in the northern part of the <br />County about how they were being treated and he did not like what he heard. He is going to <br />talk to the Manager about this in private. <br />Geof Gledhill said that until the Board adopts a resolution, what the Commissioners <br />decide is still just a process. <br />