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2 10. County Attorney's Report 3 4 NONE 5 6 11. Appointments NONE 7 8 12. Board Comments (Three Minute Limit Per Commissioner) 9 Commissioner Price said she attended the Fair Housing Work Shop. She said this 10 could have been better attended, but the County is doing good things.. She said the Board 11 needs to help that department with more outreach. She said there are more cases of 12 discrimination that just don't get the attention. 13 Commissioner McKee said he attended first meeting of Cardinal Innovations, and it is a 14 very big organization. He said the projection is that they will continue to consolidate and get 15 larger, and there may be 3 or 4 organizations. He said the community oversight board is going 16 to be concerned with what happens in Orange, Person, and Chatham, but this is dealing with a 17 much larger organization. 18 Commissioner Gordon —none 19 Commissioner Pelissier she attended the mental health legislative breakfast last 20 weekend, and this was the first time that the panel was bi- partisan. She said the issue of 21 integration of mental and physical health was discussed, as well as the issue of funding. 22 She said there was a jail alternatives meeting today, and the group looked at a draft 23 report of the objective summary. She said there is no final report yet, so there will be a request 24 for an extension. She said this does not impact the actual plans for construction of the jail. 25 Commissioner Dorosin said ABC Commission had a visit from the Planning Director 26 from Hillsborough to discuss the possibility of leasing space at the old ABC building on 70 for 27 the commuter route. He said this bus route planning is moving forward. 28 Chair Jacobs noted the candidate forum meeting for the sheriff candidates. He said the 29 jail alternatives work group executive summary does make it increasingly clear that it is not 30 necessary to build a 250 bed jail right off the bat. He said this is a decade away, and there will 31 be more flexibility on what will be recommended. He said there is a lot of good discussion 32 regarding continuum of care for mental health service and drug treatment in the jail, as well as 33 the provision of housing in the community. He said there is good attendance and community at 34 these meetings. 35 36 13. Information Items 37 38 e April 1, 2014 BOCC Meeting Follow -up Actions List 39 e BOCC Chair Letter Regarding Petitions from April 1, 2014 Regular Board Meeting 40 41 14. Closed Session 42 43 A motion was made by Commissioner Dorosin, seconded by Commissioner Rich to go 44 into closed session at 10:35 for the purpose below: 45 "To consider the qualifications, competence, performance, character, fitness, conditions of 46 appointment, or conditions of initial employment of an individual public officer or employee or 47 prospective public officer or employee;" NCGS § 143- 318.11(a)(6). 48 49 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 50