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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 6, 2008 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 3~ b <br />SUBJECT• North Carolina Governor's Awards and Orange County Key Volunteer Recognition <br />DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />List of Key Volunteer Recipients Clerk's Office, 245-2130 <br />PURPOSE: To consider recognizing the North Carolina Governor's Award/ Program Key <br />Volunteers. <br />BACKGROUND: The North Carolina Governor's Award Program has existed since 1979. This <br />award program, which is sponsored by the Governor's Office, showcases North Carolina's most <br />outstanding volunteers. Through the years, North Carolinians have proven their concern and <br />compassion for their neighbors by volunteering in their local communities. <br />Each North Carolina County selects five individuals, businesses, and/or groups to be recognized <br />for their outstanding contributions to their communities. One of the five recipients will be <br />nominated to receive the NC Outstanding Volunteer Medallion.. <br />Orange County will have recognized these volunteers by having a "meet and greet" reception <br />before this regularly scheduled Board of County Commissioners meeting (March 6, 2008 from <br />6:30-7:30p.m. in the Jury Room at the F. Gordon Battle Courtroom), and by further honoring <br />them at this meeting with certificates from both the County and the State. The Five Governor's <br />Award winners will be recognized and a short biography of their volunteer service will be <br />presented; then the 7 Orange County Key Volunteers (6 individuals and 1 couple) will be <br />recognized and a short biography of their volunteer service will be read. The Clerk's Office will <br />provide the volunteers with videos of their volunteer recognition the following week. <br />.FINANCIAL IMPACT: The Key Volunteer Event was budgeted in the 2007-08 BOCC approved <br />budget under "Volunteer Recognitions". <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board recognize the outstanding <br />Key volunteers in 2007 and, request that the Clerk's Office provide videotape recordings to the <br />recipients the following week. <br />