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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October 1. 1996 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # /0-Q <br /> SUBJECT: REPORT- POTENTIAL RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS FOR COMMISSIONER <br /> ELECTIONS <br /> ACTION BY: <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: Yes_.X—No <br /> BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: Yes_X_No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Dave Stancil <br /> Eat 2590 <br /> • Map of Potential Districts <br /> • Summary Demographic Report <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough -732-8181 <br /> Durham -688-7331 <br /> Mebane -227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill -967-9251 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider a draft of potential Residential Districts for future election of County <br /> Commissioners. <br /> BACKGROUND: On August 20,the Board of Commissioners considered an item on future district <br /> election of County Commissioners. Currently, Commissioners are elected at-large <br /> in partisan primary and general elections and serve staggered four-year terms. In <br /> response to calls from some citizens to have Commissioners elected by district, <br /> the Board discussed the possibility that future elections be conducted by <br /> Residential District using countywide vote of the electorate. <br /> Under this proposal,the current staggered terms and partisan primary process <br /> would continue to apply. The County would be divided into five Residential <br /> Districts of roughly-equal population, and each district would be represented by <br /> one seat on the Board. All registered voters in the County would be eligible to <br />