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11 <br /> • Removal of Any Items from Consent Agenda <br /> 6-d by Commissioner Price <br /> 6-q and 6-r by Commissioner Rich <br /> 6-n by Commissioner Marcoplos <br /> • Approval of Remaining Consent Agenda <br /> A motion was made by Commissioner Burroughs, seconded by Commissioner Rich for <br /> the Board to approve the remaining items on the Consent Agenda. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> • Discussion and Approval of the Items Removed from the Consent Agenda <br /> d . Resolution in Support of the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture <br /> The Board considered approving a Resolution in Support of the North Carolina <br /> Commission of Inquiry on Torture and authorizing the Chair to sign. <br /> Commissioner Price said she pulled the resolution because some one was here to <br /> speak to, and receive, this resolution. She read the resolve clause: <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> hereby supports the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture, a 501(c)(3), non-profit <br /> organization described at www.nccit.org, created to address the issue of North Carolina's role <br /> in secret detention and torture, and to craft a model of accountability that can inspire similar <br /> efforts elsewhere. <br /> PUBLIC COMMENT: <br /> Margaret (Peggy) Misch said she submitted this resolution for the Board's <br /> consideration, along with the Bill of Rights proclamation, and for the Board to adopt both of <br /> these and for Chair Dorosin to read these at their annual reading of the Bills of Rights on <br /> December 15th <br /> A motion was made by Commissioner Price, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to <br /> approve the Resolution in Support of the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture and <br /> authorize the Chair to sign. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> n. Orange County Property Naming Policy <br /> The Board considered approving the Orange County Property Naming Policy. <br /> Commissioner Marcoplos said he was reading the guidelines clarified by the Board at <br /> the December 5th BOCC meeting. He offered the following wording for the first sentence in <br /> section 2.1.5: "property belonging to Orange County may be named for living persons with the <br /> following clarifications". <br /> A motion was made by Commissioner Marcoplos, seconded by Commissioner Price to <br /> approve the amendment in the language of this section. <br />