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APPROVED 10!23!2007 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ASSEMBLY OF GOVERNMENTS <br />September 20, 2007 <br />7:30 p.m. <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session for an Assembly of <br />Governments meeting on Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Human <br />Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr., and Commissioners <br />Valerie P. Foushee, Alice M. Gordon, Barry Jacobs, and Mike Nelson <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Brian Ferrell <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Laura Blackmon and Assistant County <br />Managers Willie Best and Gwen Harvey and Deputy Clerk to the Board David Hunt {All other <br />staff members will be identified appropriately below} <br />CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Kevin C. Foy and <br />Council Members Sally Greene, Jim Ward, Bill Strom, Bill Thorpe, Cam Hill, and Laurin <br />Easthom <br />CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT: Mark Kleinschmidt and Ed <br />Harrison <br />CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayar Mark Chilton and <br />Aldermen Dan Coleman, Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Jacquelyn Gist and John Herrera <br />CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEMBERS ABSENT: Joal Hall Broun and Alex <br />Zaffron <br />HILLSBOROUGH TOWN COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Brian Lowen and Michael <br />Gering <br />HILLSBOROUGH TOWN COMM1551ONERS ABSENT: Mayar Tam Stevens and <br />Council Members Frances Dancey, Evelyn Lloyd, and Eric Hallman <br />NOTE: All other participants are listed in the text as appropriate <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE <br />PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br />Call to OrderllntroductionslOoenina Comments <br />Chair Carey called the meeting to order at 7:42. <br />Introductions were made. <br />Chair Carey said that it came to his attention that a group of people would like to select a <br />representative to speak to the Assembly of Governments for up to five minutes. He said that, in <br />the past, the AOG has not accommodated public input of any kind other than the dialogue <br />among the members. This will be the first time that public input has been allowed in this setting. <br />He asked the members for permission to allow this public comment. <br />A motion was made by Mayor Chilton, seconded by Mayar Fay to accept public <br />comment on the transfer station. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />