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2 1 a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda 2 Nettie Lassiter lives in Hillsborough. She thanked the Board of County Commissioners 3 for all of their hard work. She expressed her concerns about the noise impact to her 4 neighborhood as a result of the chiller situation at the Whitted Building. She said the noise 5 from the current machine is like a train that never stops, and it goes 24 hours a day. She said 6 she understands this is supposed to be temporary, but 6 weeks is still a long time for her 7 neighborhood to be subjected to that noise. 8 Jenn Weaver lives in the Town of Hillsborough. She is a Town Board member, but she 9 is here tonight as a citizen. She said the chiller is incredibly loud, and 6 weeks is a very long 10 time. She said the neighborhood would appreciate it if something could be done. 11 Chair Jacobs said he forwarded Jenn Weaver's email to Jeff Thompson and Michael 12 Talbert. He said it has already been 2 weeks, and there are only 4 weeks left. He said staff will 13 work with the contractor to see if sound baffles can be put up for the remaining month. 14 15 b. Matters on the Printed Agenda 16 (These matters will be considered when the Board addresses that item on the agenda 17 below.) 18 19 3. Petitions by Board Members 20 Commissioner Gordon noted that when agendas are posted online you have to 21 download the whole agenda for one item. She has noticed that the planning department 22 numbers all of their agenda pages to allow individual pages to be looked at, printed or 23 downloaded. She would petition that the Commissioners do something similar to this, where 24 pages are numbered, and also individual items can be selected for viewing without downloading 25 the whole agenda. 26 Commissioner Pelissier said this is a re-petition to her request on March 6 that a follow 27 up letter be sent to Chapel Hill and to the Mayor in reference to affordable housing near transit 28 stops. She said there needs to be a process to ensure follow up. 29 Chair Jacobs said a letter was sent, and there has been no response. 30 Commissioner Pelissier said the Board members did not get a copy of this. 31 Chair Jacobs said the letter would be sent again, and a copy will be sent to the 32 Commissioners. 33 Donna Baker said she is happy to send the original letter to Mayor Kleinschmidt and 34 Manager Stancil, with a copy to the Board. 35 Chair Jacobs said he was at the NCACC agricultural committee meeting last week. He 36 said there was considerable discussion about solar installations and what a headache these are 37 for a number of jurisdictions. He said there was discussion that these should not be called solar 38 farms, as they have nothing to do with agriculture. He asked staff to do some investigating over 39 the summer regarding other governments' ordinances and the problems that have been seen. 40 He noted that nothing has any effect on projects currently before the Board, but subsequent to 41 those projects this information may provide different ways of viewing the installations. 42 43 4. Proclamations/ Resolutions/ Special Presentations 44 a. Voluntary and Enhanced Agricultural District Designation — Multiple Farms — 45 Poole, Redding, T.W. Parker, McKee, Johnson, Soehner, R. Parker, 46 Williams/Wilson, and Walker 47 The Board considered applications from multiple landowners/farms to certify qualifying 48 farmland within the Cedar Grove, Caldwell, Schley/Eno, Cane Creek/Buckhorn, and White 49 Cross Voluntary Agricultural Districts; and enroll the lands in the Orange County Voluntary 50 Agricultural District (VAD) and the Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural District (EVAD) programs.