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11 II 1 378 important as attending the quarterly public hearings for the representatives of that group to bring back to the Planning 379 Board I think that would go a long way towards your crystal ball. 380 381 Pete Hallenbeck: Two things here, on page 72 there's that summary and that Perdita came up with and 88% of the 382 time things are legislative and 3% of the time it is a mix. You never want to ignore a minority of cases but you also 383 don't want to optimize the system on one low probability parameter. Also, Tony, I wanted to comment and this will 384 sort of speak to what Maxecine was talking about, I like the idea that you notify Planning Board members if there is 385 neighborhood information meeting in their district. I think that's a great thing to do. 386 387 Michael Harvey: With all due respect, I think that the policy should be that every Planning Board member gets 388 notified and they can choose to attend if they can or cannot. That way everybody benefits. As neighborhood 389 meetings are scheduled the Planning Board gets notified and every member has an opportunity to attend. 390 391 Tony Blake: I would agree. 392 393 Michael Harvey: The reason I saying it that way is if Tony Blake can't show up, maybe other members can and the 394 fact that Tony was not able to show up on a given evening. I think if you're asking staff to make sure you're notified 395 of every N I M then we can just do that as a policy. 396 397 Pete Hallenbeck: You're right on the money, that's more functional and easier to implement. 398 399 Paul Guthrie: I have a question for those of us who live in the County but are under Chapel Hill planning 400 management, how do we get notified? Because most of the planning of what that has done is under Chapel Hill's 401 Planning Board. There was a point in time in the past the County Commissioners made a recommendation for 402 appointment to the Chapel Hill Planning Board, from the area in which I live in, and the first thing that happened, it 403 happened to be me as the nominee, and the first thing that happened was Chapel Hill Planning Board and the 404 Council decided to eliminate that position so I think that we need to talk about those fringe areas that are in the 405 extraterritorial jurisdiction and see if we can get the process working there too. I'm in the southeast corner of the 406 County and it is going to be one of the big growth areas in a very small area over the next few years, I'm afraid, and 407 there is a lot going on but you usually have to read about it in the newspaper to find out about it. 408 409 Perdita Holtz: So you're suggesting that we work with Chapel Hill Planning's Department for them to overhaul their 410 practices on how they notify? 411 412 Paul Guthrie: No, I'm just saying it would be nice to know when those things are going on or how many newspapers I 413 need to subscribe to. 414 415 Perdita Holtz: It's Chapel Hill's planning jurisdiction and we don't necessarily always know what is going on. 416 417 Pete Hallenbeck: I think the key thing is, you being in Chapel Hill, if there's any neighborhood information meetings, 418 you'll find out about it in the County because Michael's suggestion was right on the money. It's easy to implement 419 and everybody's informed. 420 421 Buddy Hartley: I feel like the process we have now is working. The question is can we get a quorum at the public 422 hearing. That's the question. The process is working, staff is doing their job. Staff is giving us the information for 423 whatever is taking place and we are recommending to the Board of County Commissioners, whether they like our 424 recommendation or not, they do what they want to do. So, I do like the fact of possibly having the public being able 425 to come to us before the public hearing but then the question is are we going to have a quorum at the public hearing. 426 I don't see a big problem with that we just need to let staff know in advance if we cannot make that meeting so they 427 know. We should be able to get a quorum at the public hearing. 428 429 Perdita Holtz: Well it's really far in advance because the legal ad gets published and notices get sent out, the legal 430 ad is due to the paper like three weeks before the public hearing. 431