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1 DRAFT <br />2 MINUTES • <br />3 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />4 TRANSFER STATION SITING WORK SESSION <br />~5 April 15, 2008 <br />6 5:30• p.m. <br />7 <br />8 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a Transfer Station Siting Work <br />9 Session on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in <br />10 Chapel Hill, N.C. <br />11 <br />12 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioners Moses <br />13 Carey, Jr., Valerie P. Foushee, Alice M. Gordon and Mike Nelson <br />14 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br />15 COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Geof Gledhill <br />16 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Laura Blackmon, Assistant County <br />17 Manager Gwen Harvey and Willie Best, and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff <br />18 members will be identified appropriately below). <br />19 • <br />20 .NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br />21 AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 PURPOSE: <br />25 The stated purpose of the meeting is to finalize and adopt the exclusionary criteria, with <br />26 further detail and illustrative maps being presented at that time. <br />27 <br />28 Additionally, the consultants are scheduled to present for discussion, feedback and direction <br />29 a summary of public camments from the transfer station siting information sessions. The <br />30 Chair of the Human Relations Commission and Director of the Human Rights and Relations <br />31 Office will brief the BOCC on their draft definition of "Environmental Justice". Further <br />32 information regarding the preliminary technical criteria and community-specific criteria will <br />33 also be presented for discussion, feedback, and direction as time permits. <br />34 <br />35 Chair Jacobs asked if any Board of County Commissioners wanted to make comments <br />36 about the process or materials. <br />37 Commissioner Gordon said that she did attend the most recent public information . <br />38 session. At that session the citizens indicated They wanted more opportunity to speak than <br />39 had been allotted on tonight's printed agenda. In terms of agenda materials for this and other <br />40 transfer station siting meetings, she urged Olver and the staff to provide complete agenda <br />41 materials. That has not been done. She also said that in previous meetings, Commissioners <br />42 have requested that, when they make a comment or ask for information, it should be <br />43 recorded and then presented at the following meetings. If comments or suggestions are <br />44 made with respect to an exhibit, the comments should •be noted at the bottom of the exhibit. <br />45 Commissioner Gordon said that the public asked good questions about the definitions. <br />46 She would like to know how the consultants planned to score the criteria, such as the technical <br />47 criteria. She knows that the criteria will be ranked, but they also have to be weighted. She said <br />48 • they were told that when Olver gets the top sites based on technical criteria, there will be a <br />49 fairly detailed analysis of those sites. She thinks that the County Commissioners need more <br />50 information from Olver in response to the questions that have been asked. They particularly <br />51 need to know how Olver plans to score and weight criteria. <br />