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The Board approved budget amendments for fiscal year 2013-14 for Department on Aging; <br /> Department of the Environment, Agriculture, Parks and Recreation (DEAPR); Library Services; <br /> Emergency Services; Sheriff Department; Housing, Human Rights and Community <br /> Development. <br /> f. Budget Amendment#2-A— Upper Neuse River Basin Association Funding <br /> Request - Best Management Practices Credit Determination Project <br /> The Board approved Budget Amendment#2-A to provide requested funds to the Upper Neuse <br /> River Basin Association to complete a project to increase the number of Best Management <br /> Practices available for affected parties to use in meeting nutrient reductions required by the <br /> State. <br /> g. Eno River Association Conservation Easements — Funding Assistance and <br /> Approval of Budget Amendment#2-B <br /> The Board approved making a contribution of$45,000 of County funds for the acquisition of <br /> permanent conservation easements by the Eno River Association to protect significant natural <br /> resource lands at Infinity Farm (Cedar Grove Township) and along Buckquarter Creek (Eno <br /> Township); and to approve Budget Amendment#2-B. <br /> h. Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Ordinance Amendment Outlines <br /> and Schedules for Two Upcoming Items <br /> The Board approved process components and schedule for two upcoming government- <br /> initiated amendments to the Comprehensive Plan, Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), and <br /> Zoning Atlas. <br /> L Safe Routes to School Action Plan Update and Authorization of Next Steps <br /> The Board considered an update on Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Action Plan pre-adoption <br /> steps, and received authorization of next steps according to the Amendment form for the <br /> SRTS Action Plan. <br /> j. Preliminary Information and Approval to Finance Various Capital Investment Plan <br /> Projects and County Equipment <br /> The Board approved a resolution, which is incorporated by reference, moving forward with <br /> financing for capital investment projects and equipment for the year. <br /> k. Board of Commissioners Meeting Calendar for Year 2014 <br /> The Board approved the regular meeting schedule for the Board of County Commissioners for <br /> calendar year 2014. <br /> I. Change in BOCC Regular Meeting Schedule for 2013 <br /> The Board considered three changes to the County Commissioners' regular meeting calendar <br /> for 2013 as follows: <br /> - Adding a joint meeting between BOCC and the City of Mebane for Thursday, <br /> November 14, 2013 at 5:30pm at the West Campus Office building downstairs <br /> meeting room, 131 W. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC, <br /> - Adding a closed session on Monday, October 28, 2013 at 7:00 pm at the Solid Waste <br /> Administrative offices, 1207 Eubanks Road, Chapel Hill, NC for the purpose of"to <br /> consider the qualifications, competence, performance, character, fitness, conditions <br /> of <br /> appointment, or conditions of initial employment of an individual public officer or <br /> employee or prospective public officer or employee," NCGS 143-318.11(a) (6). <br /> 6. Public Hearings <br /> a. Economic Development Incentive for Morinaga America Foods, Inc. <br />