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14 1 The Board approved a four year updated Locally Coordinated Human Service Transportation Plan for 2 Orange County which will allow the County to apply for additional North Carolina Department of 3 Transportation, Public Transportation Division Grants. 4 g. Chanqe in BOCC Reqular Meetinq Schedule for 2013 5 The Board approved one change in the County Commissioners' regular meeting calendar for 2013 as 6 follows: 7 - Add a BOCC work session on Thursday, September 12, 2013. This meeting will be held at the 8 Southern Human Services Center, 2501 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill. 9 10 6. Public Hearinqs 11 12 a. CDBG Proqram — North Carolina Tomorrow Grant 13 The Board considered conducting a public hearing to receive public comments prior to official close- 14 out of the County's FY 2011 Community Development (CDBG) NC Tomorrow Program and authorize 15 execution of the Certificate of Completion by the Chair of the Board of County Commissioners. 16 Tara Fikes said the County was awarded $50,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds by 17 the North Carolina Department of Commerce to help develop and deliver economic development strategies. 18 She said the County has partnered with the Triangle J Council of Government (TJCOG) to develop this 19 strategy. 20 TJCOG Executive Director Kirby Bowers congratulated the Commissioners and staff for being 21 recipients of this grant. He said the plan is complete, and the executive summary is included in the packet 22 materials. He said this plan is part of 16 other TJOCGS plans for regional economic development 23 strategies. He said the purpose is to help with economic development strategies at a state level. He said 24 that all 16 plans are now complete, and work is being done to produce a statewide document to be 25 presented to the Secretary of Commerce in a couple of weeks. 26 Mr. Bowers said the plan includes suggested actions that the region can take to sustain and 27 enhance economic development and job growth. He said it builds on current plans. He outlined the 28 participants on the advisory committee and said there was also extensive outreach to multiple counties. 29 Mr. Bowers said the plan is complete; but this is a living document, and the work is not complete. 30 He said there would be another advisory committee meeting after the statewide plan is released to talk 31 about next steps in moving forward. 32 33 NO PUBLIC COMMENT 34 35 A motion was made by Commissioner Pelissier, seconded by Commissioner McKee to conduct a 36 public hearing to receive public comments prior to official close-out of the County's FY 2011 Community 37 Development (CDBG) NC Tomorrow Program, close the public hearing and authorize execution of the 38 Certificate of Completion by the Chair of the Board of County Commissioners. 39 40 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 41 42 7. Reqular Aqenda 43 44 a. Contract Award for Professional Desiqn Services for the Northern Human Services Center 45 Community Center Proiect 46 The Board considered: 1) awarding a contract for professional services to MBAJ Architects, Inc. 47 from Raleigh, NC, for the not-to-exceed amount of$167,500 for the architectural and engineering design 48 work associated with the Northern Human Services Center Community Center project; OR 49 2) awarding a contract for professional services to MBAJ Architects, Inc. from Raleigh, NC, for the not-to- 50 exceed amount of$208,300 for the architectural and engineering design work associated with the Northern 51 Human Services Center Community Center project, including the programming and schematic design of 52 potential alternates that would preserve the classroom wings for either deferred use ("mothball"), open air 53 "pavilion" use, or full use; and 3) authorizing the Manager to sign the chosen contract on behalf of the 54 Board.