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• 2 1 Don O'Leary said the meeting last week with the Chair and Vice Chair went well. He 2 shared the following quote from Mark Twain: "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the 3 majority, it is time to pause and reflect." 4 He said the differences of opinion are knowledge based and he offered a book on 5 agenda 2, (Behind the Green Mask, by Rosa Koire), which he left with Donna Baker and 6 encouraged the commissioners to read. 7 Chair Jacobs noted that he, Commissioner McKee, and David Stancil did recently have 8 a meeting with Don O'Leary and there was good discussion regarding the issues. 9 18 Annette Smith lives in Chapel Hill and serves as parent co-chair of the School 11 Improvement Team (SIT) at Culbreth Middle School. She expressed her support of the 12 proposed science wing. She said the members of her school endorse the proposed science 19 wing and respectfully request that it be funded in the 2013/14 Capital Investment Plan (CIP). 14 She reviewed the benefits of the wing and the improved academic space and function it would 15 provide to the school. 16 17 Beverly Rudolph, Principal at Culbreth Middle 8choo|, expressed her hope that the 18 science wing gets funded for next year. She noted the current small classrooms and invited the 19 Commissioners to come and tour the school to better see the needs. She noted that she will be 20 sending photos of the class sizes and said that she would like to see her students have the 21 same space and opportunity for science learning as the rest of the-district. 22 23 Catherine Courier lives in Mebane and expressed her concerns about personal property 24 ownership. She is specifically concerned with farmers losing the rights to wells on their 25 property. She said the county needs to adhere to the constitution in its decisions. 26 27 b. Matters on the Printed Agenda 28 (These matters will be considered when the Board addresses that item on the agenda 29 below.) 30 31 3. Petitions by Board Members (Three Minute Limit per Commissioner) 32 Commissioner Pelissier made two petitions. The first was in reference to the 33 Orange/Alamance county line. She said last year a local bill was passed that resolved many of 34 the issues with the county line; but a commitment was not made to those that did not like the 35 changes- Morrow Mill and Mill Creek. She asked Chair Jacobs and Commissioner Mckee to 36 approach Alamance commissioners to begin discussion toward a local bill to finish the work that 37 was started. 38 Commissioner Pelissier made a second petition to Frank Clifton and Gayle Wilson to 39 investigate pay as you throw options to create and present a synopsis and recommendation to 40 the Board. She also suggested that the towns be approached to gauge interest. 41 Chair Jacobs said some of the Board members met with a group called Waste Zero, 42 who is interested in facilitating pay as you throw as an environmentally friendly alternative to 43 customary municipal solid waste disposal. 44 Commissioner Price questioned an item on the agenda for April 23 regarding the 45 Northern Human Services Center. 46 Donna Baker said that there is an item on the April 16m work session and invited Greg 47 Wilder to speak regarding this. 48 Greg Wilder said the item was originally scheduled to occur at the meeting in Chapel 49 Hill, but it has been reconfigured to be on the April 16mvvorhaeosion in Hillsborough.