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Commissioner Jacobs made reference to page 59 Reserve for Future Land <br />Purchases and said that this is not a lot of money He said that the Board is a lot more <br />committed to land purchases and conservation easement purchases than 29 million over ten <br />years He would like to beef this amount up considerably <br />Commissioner Jacobs made reference to page 511 Reserve for Heating Ventilation <br />and AirConditioning Systems Replacement and suggested doing these things in a more <br />energy efficient green cuttingedge way instead of putting in the same systems <br />Chair Carey said that a lot of these things that Commissioner Jacobs is commenting on <br />are not getting responses from the other County Commissioners because they include moving <br />money around between years He said that he is not prepared to do this tonight <br />Commissioner Jacobs said that he recognizes this but he wanted to bring attention to <br />some of these projects <br />Laura Blackmon said that the next step is to look at how to finance these things and the <br />philosophy in how to fund items <br />Donna Coffey said that the County has undertaken in the last 5 years some hefty <br />projects so it did not get into debt overnight and will not get out of debt overnight <br />Commissioner Gordon said that the County has made wise investments to meet pent <br />up needs and incurred debt in doing so <br />Chair Carey asked staff if there was enough direction from the Board and Laura <br />Blackmon said yes <br />Commissioner Jacobs pointed out the letter from Mary Kruter in reference to requesting <br />usage of and that she has been waiting He encouraged the staff to make a list of what the <br />buildings that the County might be moving out of <br />Laura Blackmon asked about the Boardsavailability for meeting for aminiretreat in <br />December Commissioner Nelson said that the only date that he is unavailable is December <br />Stn for the mini retreat Commissioner Foushee said that she is not available on December <br />14tH <br />After further discussion it was agreed to that the Board would meet for their miniretreat on <br />Friday December 7 2007 from 1OOpm5OOpmat the Government Services Center in <br />Hillsborough <br />The meeting was adjourned at 1007 pm <br />Moses Carey Jr <br />Chair <br />Donna S Baker CMC <br />Clerk to the Board