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APPROVED 11/16/2010 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION October 12, 2010 7:00 p.m. The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a work session on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Valerie P. Foushee, and Commissioners Alice Gordon, Pam Hemminger, Barry Jacobs, Mike Nelson, Bernadette Pelissier, and Steve Yuhasz COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Frank Clifton and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below). A motion was made by Commissioner Hemminger, seconded by Commissioner Pelissier to add a closed session to the end of this meeting for the purpose of: To establish, or to instruct the public body's staff or negotiating agents concerning the position to be taken by or on behalf of the public body in negotiating the price and other material terms of a contract or proposed contract for the acquisition of real property by purchase, option, exchange, or lease, NCGS 143-318.11(a)(5); and To discuss matters relating to the location or expansion of industries or other businesses in the area served by the public body, including agreement on a tentative list of economic development incentives that may be offered by the public body in negotiations, NCGS 143-318.11(a)(4). VOTE: UNANIMOUS 1. Lands Legacy Action Plan for FY 2010-12 Dave Stancil, Director of the Department of Environment, Agriculture, Parks and Recreation ( DEAPR) said that he would give an overview and background on this item tonight and Land Conservation Manager Rich Shaw would touch on the highlights. The Lands Legacy Program is directed each two years by adoption of a two-year Action Plan. The 2010-12 Action Plan reflects acquisition priorities for the 24-month period beginning July 1, 2010 and ending June 30, 2012. As in years past, the draft Action Plan was developed with input from citizen advisory boards (listed with their areas of expertise in parentheses): Commission for the Environment (natural areas, prime forest, riparian buffers, open space/trails), Agricultural Preservation Board (farmland preservation), Historic Preservation Board (historic/cultural resources) and the Parks and Recreation Council (parklands, open space/trails). This Action Plan comes at a time where, after 10 years of learning and maturation, the program finds itself in a different position. During the remainder of this current economic downturn, while the State's conservation trust funds are in short supply, DEAPR proposes scaling back on new acquisitions in order to tend to its ever increasing responsibilities for the lands acquired and "land-banked" for future parks and preserves. The following are some common themes for the approach to this Plan: