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• Support and enhancement of each individual agency's efforts; <br /> • Identifying systemic gaps and limitations; <br /> • Optimizing the health and well-being of victims, families, and providers. <br /> What a real deficit it has been for our community to not have such a service since the <br /> children's advocacy movement began in the 80s. <br /> The mission of The Orange County MDT is to facilitate a well-coordinated, systematic <br /> response to child maltreatment that optimizes child health and well-being through enhanced <br /> inter-agency communication, child focused case planning, and efficient and precise <br /> investigation and prosecution. <br /> Our team is comprised of a representative from Division of Juvenile Justice; Office of the <br /> Guardian ad Litem; Orange/Chatham Counties District Attorney's Office; Orange County <br /> Department of Social Services; Orange County Public and Charter Schools; UNC Healthcare; <br /> Orange County Sheriff's Department; Local Municipal Police Departments; Orange County <br /> Rape Crisis Center; and the Compass Center for Women and Families. All of us share in a <br /> passion for and commitment to the safety and health of all children while promoting strong and <br /> healthy families. It is for this reason that, in addition to our full-time jobs, we are also committed <br /> to meeting monthly for two hours to develop the MDT and review cases. <br /> In the past 7 months, we have come to realize that there are significant gaps in the quality of <br /> services our team is able to provide. This is due, primarily, to the priorities of our full-time jobs. <br /> Having a sole focus on the duties of the coordinator position and no direct attachment to <br /> involved agencies, an MDT Coordinator would fill these gaps. It is for this reason that we ask <br /> the Orange County Board of Commissioners to consider creating a county-funded MDT <br /> position in Orange County and for your support and guidance in moving forward. Thank you. <br /> Diana McDuffie is a member of the Friends of the public library of Carrboro, McDougle <br /> and Cybrary. She expressed appreciation for the diligent work of the Board on the Southern <br /> Branch Library. She reviewed the timeline of this work, up to the identification of the final site, <br /> Brewer Lane. She said the overall response from the public input process to the Board of <br /> County Commissioners was yes to a community library and yes to the Brewer Lane site. She <br /> thanked the Board for this input process, and she said the community supports their efforts <br /> and looks forward to seeing the end of this story in 2015. She noted that several members of <br /> the friends group were in attendance. <br /> Janel Sexton said her statement is regarding an issue with impervious surface in <br /> Orange County. Her family purchased a 10 acre property in Orange County and thought they <br /> understood the impervious surface regulations. She reviewed her situation, as outlined in the <br /> following letters and emails: <br /> Janel Sexton (letter) <br /> Janel & Bryan Sexton <br /> 224 Whirlaway Lane <br /> Chapel Hill, NC 27516 <br /> (919) 942-2229 <br /> October 26, 2014 <br />