Agenda - 02-06-2018 Regular Board Meeting

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i Orange County Board of Commissioners Agenda Regular Meeting February 6, 2018 7:00 p.m. (After 5:30 -7:00 p.m. Public Information Session on Potential Northern County Campus) Richard Whitted Meeting Facility 300 West Tryon Street Hillsborough, NC 27278 Note: Background Material on all abstracts available in the Clerk's Office Compliance with the "Americans with Disabilities Act" - Interpreter services and/or special sound equipment are available on request. Call the County Clerk's Office at (919) 245 -2130. If you are disabled and need assistance with reasonable accommodations, contact the ADA Coordinator in the County Manager's Office at (919) 245 -2300 or TDD# 644 -3045. 1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda PUBLIC CHARGE The Board of Commissioners pledges to the residents of Orange County its respect. The Board asks its residents to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner, both with the Board and with fellow residents. At any time should any member of the Board or any resident fail to observe this public charge, the Chair will ask the offending person to leave the meeting until that individual regains personal control. Should decorum fail to be restored, the Chair will recess the meeting until such time that a genuine commitment to this public charge is observed. All electronic devices such as cell phones, pagers, and computers should please be turned off or set to silent /vibrate. Arts Moment- Pam Baggett Pam Baggett's chapbook, Wild Horses, was a runner -up for the 2017 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest and will be published by Main Street Rag in 2018. Recent poems appear in Atlanta Review, Cold Mountain Review, Crab Orchard Review, Greensboro Review, and Tar River Poetry. Work also appears in anthologies, including Forgetting Home: Poems About Alzheimers and The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume VII: North Carolina. Ms. Baggett is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a recipient of the 2017 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant, and a 2017 recipient of an Artist Project Grant from the Orange County Arts Commission. She co- hosts the Second Thursday Reading series at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill and teaches free poetry workshops at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough. 2. Public Comments (Limited to One Hour) (We would appreciate you signing the pad ahead of time so that you are not overlooked.) a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda (Limited to One Hour — THREE MINUTE LIMIT PER SPEAKER — Written comments may be submitted to the Clerk to the Board.) Petitions /Resolutions /Proclamations and other similar requests submitted by the public will not be acted upon by the Board of Commissioners at the time presented. All such requests will be referred for Chair /Vice Chair /Manager review and for recommendations to the full Board at a later date regarding a) consideration of the request at a future regular Board meeting; or b) receipt of the request as information only. Submittal of information to the Board or receipt of information by the Board does not constitute approval, endorsement, or consent.