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The Board approved a lease for Suite 105 at 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC to <br /> Brokerage Resource, Inc. for$1,100.00 per month and taxes-in-lieu of$100 per month. <br /> y. Bid Award—Leachate Collection Piping <br /> The Board awarded a bid for Leachate Collection Piping for$26,241.33. <br /> Z. Bid Award—Orange County Landfill Phase 4 Construction Geosynthetics <br /> The Board awarded a bid for Phase 4 Construction - Geosynthetics at the Orange County <br /> Landfill to Clary Hood, Inc. of Kissimmee, Florida in the amount of$346,000 and authorized the <br /> Purchasing Director to execute the necessary paperwork, and authorized the County Manager to <br /> execute change orders as may be necessary during the course of the installation, to the extent project <br /> funds are available for this work. <br /> Other bids received are listed below: <br /> Reynolds - $432,500 <br /> Clary Hood - $346,000 <br /> Plastic Fusion - $450,479 <br /> Serrot International, Inc. - $457,906.60 <br /> aa. Budget Amendment#13 <br /> The Board approved budget ordinance amendments, grant project ordinance, and a capital <br /> project ordinance for fiscal year 1999-2000. <br /> bb. Adoption of 2000-2001 Grant and Capital Proiect Ordinances <br /> The Board approved grant project ordinances and selected capital project ordinances in <br /> accordance with the actions taken by the Board of Commissioners at the June 20, 2000 budget work <br /> session. <br /> cc. Change in Board of Commissioners' Meeting Schedule <br /> The Board approved a change in the Board of Commissioners' meeting schedule to change <br /> the joint meeting with the two school boards from September 21, 2000 to September 25, 2000. <br /> VOTE ON THE CONSENT AGENDA: UNANIMOUS <br /> ITEMS REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA <br /> b. Minutes <br /> motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to <br /> approve the highlighted draft of the minutes for March 21st and the minutes for March 23`d with the <br /> changes as shown on the green sheet. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> m. Contract for Orange County Video Production <br /> The Board considered approving a contract with Horizon Video Productions, Inc. to produce a <br /> 10-12 minute video about Orange County's departments and services to be presented at new employee <br /> and board and commission orientation sessions, to citizens on cable access television, and to <br /> community, civic, and educational groups. <br /> Commissioner Brown said that her interest in this was that the Commissioners have not had <br /> any opportunity to discuss it and what it would be like. She would either like to hold this item and the <br /> next item to have a presentation on it, or to put some very specific language in the contract specifying <br /> when the Commissioners would be part of the review process. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs said that there were three separate communication efforts going on—a <br /> message to the people, an update of the web site, and this video. He does not see that these three are <br /> in any way coordinated and he would like to see it be a coherent message. <br /> Commissioner Gordon said that there could be some language added to say that the video, <br /> the web site, and the message to the people would articulate a common and coherent theme and <br /> message. Also, the Board of Commissioners would approve the effort at key intervals to be identified by <br /> the Commissioners. This common theme is specified in the Strategic Communications Plan. <br /> Commissioner Brown suggested having a presentation on both of the project concepts—the <br /> web site design and the video—by the proposed companies so that the Commissioners could see what <br />