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Orange County <br />Commission for the Environment <br />DRAFT Meeting Summary <br />August 8, 2016 <br />Orange County Solid Waste Administration Building, Chapel Hill <br />PRESENT: Lydia Wegman (Chair), May Becker, Peter Cada, Bill Kaiser, Bill Newby, <br />Rebecca Ray, Sheila Thomas -Ambat <br />ABSENT: Lynne Gronback, Loren Hintz, Jeanette O'Connor <br />STAFF: Tom Davis, Rich Shaw <br />Call to Order — Wegman called the meeting to order at 7:40 pm. <br />Additions or Changes to Agenda — None. Shaw reported that the County purchased <br />land earlier that day for an addition to the County's Soccer.com Soccer Park. <br />III. Minutes — Wegman asked for comments on the June 13 meeting summary. Kaiser <br />motioned approval as written; seconded by Becker. Motion approved unanimously. <br />Kaiser asked if there was any new information about the possibility of installing a solar <br />array at the closed landfill, which was discussed by the CFE and members of the Town <br />of Carrboro's Environmental Advisory Board (EAB) at the June meeting. Shaw noted <br />that the EAB members had spoken with Orange County Solid Waste staff about two <br />possible sites at the landfill, but he had not heard anything further. Shaw said he would <br />contact the Solid Waste staff and report back to the CFE with any news. <br />IV. CFE Facebook Page — CFE members recapped the June meeting discussion on the <br />use of Facebook and other social media to communicate with the public about CFE <br />activities and other environmental matters of interest to county residents. At that meeting <br />CFE reviewed the Orange County Social Media Policy included in the meeting materials. <br />CFE members expressed continued interest in using social media (not just Facebook) <br />and asked staff could request that someone from the County attend a future meeting to <br />answer questions and to help guide the CFE in how it could participate in outreach to <br />county residents. CFE members said they recognize and appreciate the need for <br />Orange County to enforce a social media policy, but it remains unclear how the CFE <br />should move forward with its outreach efforts. <br />Shaw said he would ask Beth Young (DEAPR Communications) or David Hunt (BOCC <br />Clerk's Office) to attend a future meeting. <br />V. Hydrilla Treatments in Upper Eno River Basin (Update) — Davis provided an update <br />on year two of a two -year pilot study to treat the aquatic weed hydrilla in the Eno River. <br />He said the chemical treatments were being injected into the Eno at two locations (rather <br />than just one in 2015) and the effects are being monitored at several locations along the <br />16 miles of river that comprise the study area. Davis noted the Eno River Hydrilla <br />Management Task Force decided to maintain a lesser concentration of the chemical <br />Fluridone ( <5 ppb versus <15 ppb in 2015)), but due to the high incidents of rainfall they <br />would need to use more of the chemical than they used the previous year. <br />
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