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suggested the board look at the 3 open jurisdictions, and then fill the At Large positions. There were 2 qualifying applicants from Carrboro (Daniel and Siler.) Siler’s property was adjacent to Carrboro City Limits, but not within it, leaving Daniel as the only true Carrboro City applicant. Green nominated Daniel. McDade 2nd. All were in favor. There were no Town of Hillsborough applicants. Williams Reid qualifies for this position, and she was ok with switching from Hillsborough Township. This allowed the board to look at Greeson and Rhodes. Bulkley nominated Greeson for the Hillsborough Township position, McDade 2nd, all were in favor. Green nominated Rhodes for the At Large position, Robinson 2nd, all were in favor. Williams Reid nominated Burnette with Robinson 2nd for the other At Large position with all voting in favor. Bench will call him to see if he is interested because it seemed as if he was also interested in Social Services. If he is, his vote will stand, if not, the board will revisit the list next meeting. III. New Business a. Election of Chair and Vice-Chair The previous terms end this month calling for an election. Bulkley nominated incumbents, Bench (as chair) and Williams Reid (as vice-chair.) Green 2nd the motion. Both accepted to run in the same positions. Green closed the floor and McDade 2nd the motion. All voted in favor. b. Bench recommended that the board look at the Outside Agency Funding Requests for 2015 next. Only 2 agencies applied: the Bridge 2 Sports asking for $8000; and The Big Brother, Big Sister program asking for $6000. We do not recommend money, BOCC does that. Bench says to not do the scoring, but to use the score we got from last year. Bench asked if we can mirror what we did last year. Stancil says we don’t have last year’s scoring card. McDade says we should recommend both, Williams Reid 2nd, all voted in favor. c. Role of Community Centers in Orange County. There’s an April 9 BOCC meeting that will speak on this issue, so this is an item to discuss. Bench asked what the BOCC will be looking for. The first page in the handout shows issues the board can discuss. Stancil included Space Study Work Group input. The last page is a matrix of these issues. 3 options: Option 1: County Operated/Managed; Option 2: Hybrid County/Community and Option 3: Outsourced Management. DEAPR has 2 community centers, Efland Cheeks Community Center (ECCC) and Cedar Grove Community Center (CG.) Aging is no longer at ECCC nor is the Health Department, who left when a grant ended. The community sees it not being used and they want it open for more involvement. The CG center will have meeting rooms, a gym, Wi Fi and more. It should open in March of next year (16.)The board needs to talk of level of programming, staffing, equipment and etc. The old cafeteria will become a muti-media room, the gym floor resurfaced and more. The center of the building will be restored, and the wings will be used for storage. Stancil posed the question, what does the board think should be happening at these centers. Bench asked the question, if those in the community wanted to organize something, would it be allowed? There was much discussion around this issue with Sousa describing our Facility Use Policy. Stancil said DEAPR needs to find the right mix with allowing community groups to use it and