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Orange County <br />Board of Commissioners <br /> <br />Agenda <br /> <br />Regular Meeting <br />March 8, 2018 <br />7:00 p.m. <br />Richard Whitted Meeting Facility <br />300 West Tryon Street <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />Note: Background Material <br />on all abstracts <br />available in the <br />Clerk’s Office <br /> <br />Compliance with the “Americans with Disabilities Act” - Interpreter services and/or special sound <br />equipment are available on request. Call the County Clerk’s Office at (919) 245-2130. If you are <br />disabled and need assistance with reasonable accommodations, contact the ADA Coordinator in the <br />County Manager’s Office at (919) 245-2300 or TDD# 644-3045. <br /> <br />1. <br /> <br />Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br /> <br />PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> <br />The Board of Commissioners pledges to the residents of Orange County its respect. The Board asks its <br />residents to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner, both with the Board and with fellow <br />residents. At any time should any member of the Board or any resident fail to observe this public charge, <br />the Chair will ask the offending person to leave the meeting until that individual regains personal control. <br />Should decorum fail to be restored, the Chair will recess the meeting until such time that a genuine <br />commitment to this public charge is observed. All electronic devices such as cell phones, pagers, and <br />computers should please be turned off or set to silent/vibrate. <br /> <br />Arts Moment – Jeffery Beam <br /> <br />Jeffery Beam's award-winning works: Broken Flower, Gospel Earth, Visions of Dame Kind, <br />Elizabethan Bestiary: Retold, New Beautiful Tendons, a CD What We Have Lost, Jonathan <br />Williams: Lord of Orchards, and Spectral Pegasus/Dark Movements – a poetry/painting <br />collaboration with Welsh painter Clive Hicks-Jenkins (January 2019 Connecticut’s Kin Press). <br />Composer collaborations: Lee Hoiby—Carnegie Hall premiere Life of the Bee (2001 Albany <br />Record's New Growth); Steven Serpa—Heaven's Birds (2008 Boston’s World AIDS Day), An <br />Invocation (2016 Austin Symphony), The Creatures: A Bestiary (2016 Austin Opera); Holt <br />McCarley—The Hyena (2015, St. Louis); and Daniel Thomas Davis—Family Secrets w/Beam’s <br />Porch Song (2015 UNC-CH, 2016 NC Opera). Forthcoming—a children’s book The Droods <br />(English artist Phil Cooper). Retired botanical librarian (2011 UNC-CH). Beam lives with his <br />husband Stanley of 38 years in Hillsborough. www.unc.edu/~jeffbeam/index.html <br /> <br /> <br />2. <br /> <br />Public Comments (Limited to One Hour) <br /> <br />(We would appreciate you signing the pad ahead of time so that you are not overlooked.) <br /> <br />a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda (Limited to One Hour – THREE MINUTE LIMIT PER <br />SPEAKER – Written comments may be submitted to the Clerk to the Board.) <br /> <br />Petitions/Resolutions/Proclamations and other similar requests submitted by the public will not be acted