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APPROVED 10/22/91 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />WORK SESSION <br />OCTOBER 8, 1991 <br />1 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in Special Session on <br />Tuesday, October 8, 1991 at 7:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the Agriculture <br />and Planning Building on Revere Road in Hillsborough, North Carolina. The <br />purpose of the meeting was to hold a work session on conventional and <br />alternative wastewater treatment systems in Orange County. <br />BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr., Commissioners Alice M. <br />Gordon, Verla C. Insko and Don Willhoit. <br />BOARD MEMBER ABSENT: Stephen Halkiotis <br />ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County <br />Managers Albert Kittrell and Rod Visser, Clerk to the Board Beverly Blythe, <br />Environmental Health Supervisor Ron Holdway, Environmental Health Program <br />Specialist Tom Konsler, Budget Director Sally Kost, Environmental Health <br />Director Tony Laws, Health Director Dan Reimer, and County Engineer Paul <br />Thames. <br />OTHERS PRESENT: Dr. Robert Rubin and Julie Andresen, Chapel Hill Town <br />Council. <br />Chairman Carey announced that this meeting will focus on policy issues <br />that the Board may want to address in the proposed monitoring and maintenance <br />program. The intent is to focus basically on policy initiatives the Board <br />would like to see included in the proposed program. <br />Commissioner Insko stated that she hopes that at the conclusion of this <br />meeting the Board will be ready for the staff to bring back a recommendation <br />on a monitoring and maintenance system. She would like to have a figure on <br />what it will cost to implement different levels of service that the County <br />could provide. She would like to see what a minimal acceptable program is <br />and then list the add -ons that would enhance the monitoring and maintenance <br />program. <br />Commissioner Willhoit stated that he feels that what the Board can come <br />up with are some areas for further study. He feels that the management <br />entity is still missing from this proposal. <br />Commissioner Gordon noted that the whole area being discussed is <br />alternative systems. This monitoring and maintenance program is just one <br />part. She would like to see what a minimal acceptable system would be and <br />then start from there. She feels that the question of how this monitoring <br />and maintenance program fits into the question about alternative systems is <br />a larger question about the carrying capacity of the land, soil capacity for <br />receiving wastewater, and any implications for land use planning that may <br />come from this. <br />Commissioner Willhoit noted that the focus should be on alternative <br />