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6 <br /> 1 Commissioner Price said the County pays $1,000 dues to the Hillsborough/Orange <br /> 2 County Chamber, and asked if the Board is not going to pay dues to the Chapel Hill—Carrboro <br /> 3 Chamber, then should it also not pay the Hillsborough-Orange Chamber. <br /> 4 Commissioner Rich said she was just talking about Chapel Hill — Carrboro Chamber. <br /> 5 Commissioner Marcoplos clarified that none of the other local municipalities pay dues to <br /> 6 the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber. <br /> 7 Commissioner Rich said that is correct; rather they pay to attend specific events. <br /> 8 Chair Dorosin said if this is a policy based decision the Board should withdraw dues <br /> 9 from both chambers. <br /> 10 Commissioner Marcoplos asked if the fees for a la carte payment are known. <br /> 11 Commissioner Jacobs said pittance. <br /> 12 Chair Dorosin said the BOCC can pay per event, and still attend events. <br /> 13 <br /> 14 VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> 15 <br /> 16 010-013—Additional Outside Agency Funding for 4 agencies <br /> 17 Commissioner Price said she wanted these agencies to be able to move forward with <br /> 18 their projects. <br /> 19 Commissioner Rich said she will vote against this, only because there is an outside <br /> 20 agency process, which she wants to respect. She said she has nothing against these <br /> 21 agencies. <br /> 22 Commissioner Marcoplos said he agreed with Commissioner Rich, and sees it as a <br /> 23 question of consistency and may cause people to say the process is flawed. <br /> 24 Commissioner Price said the process was not flawed, but since other changes are being <br /> 25 made she wanted to fund these agencies. She said these are small amounts of money. <br /> 26 Commissioner Burroughs said she wanted the Board to respect the outside agency <br /> 27 process, and she wanted to stay with Manager's recommendation. <br /> 28 Commissioner Jacobs said he had also wanted to add monies to Planned Parenthood, <br /> 29 but he was persuaded to stay with the outside agency recommendation process. <br /> 30 Commissioner Price said she does not want to change the process, but just wanted <br /> 31 more emphasis on some agencies. <br /> 32 No motion needed - stays as is. <br /> 33 <br /> 34 014-015-/020 <br /> 35 A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner McKee to <br /> 36 reduce the Board of County Commissioners contingency fund by $15,000 (From $37,000), and <br /> 37 add this to the Veteran's Memorial Challenge to match other donations to encourage members <br /> 38 of the public to match at $15,000 and if not matched, County will pay the rest. <br /> 39 <br /> 40 Commissioner Rich asked if the amount currently in this fund could be identified. <br /> 41 Paul Laughton said $30,000, and $37,000 has been budgeted each year for the last <br /> 42 three years. He said $20,000 was spent in FY2015-16 towards the initial work of the Bond <br /> 43 Committee. <br /> 44 Commissioner McKee said he would like to continue budgeting $37,000 for the BOCC <br /> 45 Contingency Fund, but would be fine with this being a one-time expense. <br /> 46 Chair Dorosin suggested reducing the annual contingency fund by $1,296 to fund the <br /> 47 Commissioner cell phone stipend. <br /> 48 <br /> 49 VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> 50 <br />