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12 <br /> 1 Commissioner Gordon said she has no objection to approving the plaques, as the <br /> 2 buildings are already built. She said if this does not delay the plaques too long, it could be <br /> 3 acceptable. <br /> 4 <br /> 5 VOTE: Ayes, 4 (Chair Jacobs, Commissioner Gordon, Commissioner McKee, Commissioner <br /> 6 Price); Nays, 3 (Commissioner Dorosin, Commissioner Rich, and Commissioner Pelissier) <br /> 7 <br /> 8 Commissioner Gordon made a motion to reconsider the motion, and the Commissioners <br /> 9 then reconsidered the motion: <br /> 10 <br /> 11 A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Chair Jacobs to approve <br /> 12 the plaques listed in agenda item 6-f, as proposed in the materials and recommendation for this <br /> 13 agenda item. They will be similar to the plaque at the Link Center. <br /> 14 <br /> 15 In response to questions from Commissioner Price about what the motion meant, Chair <br /> 16 Jacobs clarified that the plaques will be the same as the one at the Link Center, and the names <br /> 17 on the plaques will be the commissioners who were serving when the buildings were <br /> 18 completed. <br /> 19 Commissioner Price clarified that there will not be an official vote on Item 7-d. <br /> 20 Chair Jacobs said there will be a vote to give staff direction on this item. <br /> 21 Commissioner McKee said Item 7-d seemed out of process if the Board is approving the <br /> 22 plaques before adopting the policy. He said the $22,500 is not a large amount of money, <br /> 23 considering the budget; however it is a large amount of money when considering the fact that it <br /> 24 could be transferred to Department of Social Services, Child Care Services, the Social Justice <br /> 25 Fund or some other area of need. He said it is an equity issue for him. <br /> 26 Chair Jacobs said there will be a request related to social services' needs at the next <br /> 27 meeting, and it will come out of a fund set aside for the purposes Commissioner McKee <br /> 28 articulated. <br /> 29 <br /> 30 VOTE: Ayes, 5 (Chair Jacobs, Commissioner Gordon, Commissioner Rich, Commissioner <br /> 31 Pelissier, Commissioner Dorosin); Nays, 2 (Commissioner Price and Commissioner McKee) <br /> 32 <br /> 33 6-h. Approval of Updated Orange County Volunteer Fire Department Agreements <br /> 34 The Board considered approving updated fire protection and emergency services <br /> 35 agreements between Orange County and each volunteer fire department (Caldwell, Cedar <br /> 36 Grove, Efland, Eno, New Hope, Orange Grove, Orange Rural, and White Cross) and <br /> 37 authorizing the Chair to sign. <br /> 38 Commissioner Gordon said she understood that staff had accepted several proposed <br /> 39 changes to the agreements and would be providing the revised wording at the Board member's <br /> 40 places. She referred to the contract and noted the term "manpower" on page 5 - point 11.b. <br /> 41 She said this should be changed to "personnel" in order to be gender neutral. <br /> 42 She referred to bullet 18 on page 9. She said this needs to say "must be competent", <br /> 43 eliminating the "however." <br /> 44 She said these two changes are also necessary on page 15 (change "manpower" to <br /> 45 "personnel"), and page 18 (remove "however"). <br /> 46 <br /> 47 A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner McKee to <br /> 48 approve the updated fire protection and emergency services agreements between Orange <br /> 49 County and each volunteer fire department (Caldwell, Cedar Grove, Efland, Eno, New Hope, <br />