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04 <br />1 APPROVED 1122/91 MINUTES <br />2 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />3 REGULAR MEETING <br />4 JANUARY 7, 1991 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 The orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session <br />8 on Monday, January 7, 1991 at 7:30 p.m. in the Courtroom of the Old <br />9 Courthouse, Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />10 <br />11 BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairman Moses Carey, Jr., Vice -Chair <br />12 Stephen Halkiotis, and Commissioners Alice M. Gordon, Verla C. Insko and <br />13 Don Willhoit. <br />14 <br />15 COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />16 <br />17 STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant <br />18 County Manager Albert Kittrell, Deputy Clerk to the Board Kathy Baker, <br />19 Clerk to the Board Beverly Blythe, Planning Director Marvin Collins, <br />20 Purchasing Director Pam Jones, Health Director Dan Reimer, Planners <br />21 Emily Crudup, Mary Scearbo, and David Stancil, County Engineer Paul <br />22 Thames and Environmental Health Personnel Tony Laws, Ron Holdway and Tom <br />23 Konsler. <br />24 <br />25 NOTE: All documents referenced in these minutes are in the permanent <br />26 agenda file in the Clerk's Office. <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 I. BOARD COMMENTS <br />30 Commissioner Halkiotis informed the Board of five recent deaths <br />31 in the County. He asked that a resolution for Jay Thomas, the first <br />32 fatality of Operation Desert Shield from Orange County, be written for <br />33 a future meeting. <br />34 Commissioner Gordon referred to the County Commissioners' retreat <br />35 of December 8th, and made a statement which is stated in its entirety <br />36 below. <br />37 "At the annual Board of Commissioners' Goal Planning Retreat on <br />38 December 8, I presented several goals which I believe were adopted by <br />39 consensus. <br />40 <br />41 BUDGET <br />42 <br />43 Increase efforts to promote efficiency and savings in Orange Count <br />44 governmental operations <br />45 A. Identify Rositive incentives for savings in ongoing ro rams <br />46 funded in the continuation budgets of county departments and <br />47 also outside units receiving county funding. <br />48 All units should be encouraged to phase out older, less <br />49 productive programs and to identify more effective <br />50 methods of delivering services. <br />51 <br />52 <br />