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Commissioner Dorosin said that since the community center has been bifurcated from the task force, that will proceed at pace. He said he is less concerned that giving a 6 month time frame will keep things from proceeding. Commissioner Price said she is fine as long as they do have a certain deadline date. Chair Jacobs pointed out that the motion that was ratified was to continue the task force for 6 months, but it has no definition of this timeline. He suggested that they clarify the timeline by setting the expectation of a report at their September 17th meeting. Michael Talbert said all of his points have been covered and it is unlikely the task force will meet before mid-March and a September date is feasible. He said that it will take at least 4-6 weeks to pull together a final report for approval from the task force, prior to the town and county seeing it. Chair Jacobs said that Commissioner Dorosin had made an observation about the charge from January 24th meeting related to items 3-4 on the motion. Commissioner Dorosin said that when he made the motion to consider options to address gentrification, he intended on including Chapel Hill Small Area Plan (SAP) as all one bullet item, considering future development in the area. Chair Jacobs said he was not sure there was any substantive difference. Commissioner Gordon said it should be left as is. She said she listened carefully to the video of the meeting. When Chair Jacobs read the motion he used a lot of"ands", which resulted in the clerk writing it as it stands, and Commissioner Gordon accepted what the clerk wrote. Commissioner Rich said it is important to bring the Small Area Plan (SAP) back when they talk about this in the task force; but that it is also a good idea to go back and look at all the recommendations dating back to 1997 to bring those past opinions back to the table. Chair Jacobs reviewed what he had noted from the discussion: -Request that towns appoint task force members and confirm the continuation of the task force. - Make a separate recommendation that the six month period conclude with a report to come back to the County Commissioners no later than the September 17, 2013 meeting. A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon seconded by Commissioner Price to request that the towns confirm that the task force should continue and that they appoint task force members; confirm the appointment of Commissioners Rich and Price as the County's members on the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force; appoint David Caldwell and Robert Campbell from the Rogers Eubanks Neighborhood Association to the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force; confirm the Charge and Timeline of the task force as specified in the second motion at the top of page 3 from the previous meeting, and specify that the report be due no later than the September 17th Board of Commissioner's meeting. Chair Jacobs asked for additional comments. Commissioner Dorosin said that the Rogers Eubank Neighborhood Association (RENA) should appoint its own two citizens to the Historic Rogers Road Task Force and offered this as a friendly amendment. Commissioner Rich said the neighborhood should be asked the same questions as the towns, thus they should be asked to appoint two members and they should be asked if they wish to continue the task force. Commissioner Gordon requested that RENA confirm that the task force continues and appoint two task force members.