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! 1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No.�_ <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: November 1, 1995 <br /> SUBJECT: Change in the Arts Commission <br /> Resolution <br /> DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC HEARING: Yes xx No <br /> Recreation & Parks <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: 732-4617 <br /> 1) A Resolution creating an Orange County <br /> Tom Waldrop, Chair Arts Commission <br /> Arts Commission (see section 2. TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> Membership, paragraph 1, sentence 3) Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> 2) Arts Commission By-Laws, Article III Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Meetings Section 4 voting Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: Delete the part of the Resolution which states: <br /> No organization which is a potential recipient of county arts funding shall <br /> have on the Commission more than one person who serves on its board or staff. <br /> For the reason not restricting the number of members from any one organization <br /> who may serve on the Arts Commission Board and to allow all eligible arts <br /> organizations access to county funds. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> The Arts Commission feels this wording is no longer necessary since the same <br /> issue is addressed in the by-laws (See Arts Commission By-Laws, pages 2 & 3 <br /> Article III, Section 4 voting) to cover the Commission if the case were to <br /> occur where members of the same organization were appointed to the Arts <br /> Commission by BOCC during the same terms. <br /> It also restricts the number of potential qualified applicants to the Commission <br /> and limits Commission members' affiliation with numerous arts organizations. <br /> RECOMMENDATION(S) : <br /> The manager recommends that this part of the Resolution be rescinded. <br />