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Approved 12/2/15 <br /> <br />5 <br />Paul Guthrie: A number of years ago the County Board of Commissioners sent my name to the Town of Chapel Hill 212 <br />to represent the ETJ and rather than appoint me the Town of Chapel Hill’s Planning Department redistributed the 213 <br />seats and eliminated the position that I would have been in without any consultation with the County. I like option B 214 <br />but one thing that should be done is to make sure they can’t play games with that procedure. 215 <br /> 216 <br />Tony Blake: I think it’s very important that people from the neighborhoods be represented well on these boards. 217 <br />Chapel Hill has been doing away with affordable housing and they seem to be pushing that responsibility more and 218 <br />more on the county. 219 <br /> 220 <br />Lisa Stuckey: So by state law the ETJ areas have to be represented by at least one person and that person is 221 <br />appointed by the county commissioners, so we are talking about 200 acres and whether or not there should be an 222 <br />appointed person to represent the two purple areas? 223 <br /> 224 <br />Perdita Holtz: Yes, although it would be ETJ or Transition Area resident. 225 <br /> 226 <br />Tony Blake: It’s just to give them a bigger pool of people to choose from. 227 <br /> 228 <br />Lisa Stuckey: ETJ is still under 7% of the population and has 2/9 of the representation, I kind of get why it’s a 229 <br />problem. I don’t think they need one person for the two purple areas. 230 <br /> 231 <br />Tony Blake: I’m interested in the additional representation because I think there are some very critical decisions 232 <br />coming up in those areas. 233 <br /> 234 <br />Andrea Rohrbacher: I am tending towards what Lisa said. I don’t think we need the two seats. I think the one seat 235 <br />would be adequate. 236 <br /> 237 <br />Lydia Wegman: Paul wanted to speak so after he speaks we will go around and hear from everybody. 238 <br /> 239 <br />Paul Guthrie: I personally don’t think that one or two makes a lot of difference. I have lived in the ETJ for eleven 240 <br />years and I have never had any communication on anything they are doing in that district. They do not communicate 241 <br />at all so it seems to me that one of the issues is going well beyond what we are talking about. 242 <br /> 243 <br />Lydia Wegman: So that sounds like something we will want to convey potentially to the Town of Chapel Hill. 244 <br /> 245 <br />Perdita Holtz: It will be a part of the minutes and the BOCC reads those minutes and they might want to bring it up at 246 <br />one of the joint meetings they have. 247 <br /> 248 <br />Lydia Wegman: Okay so let’s go around, Buddy you can start. 249 <br /> 250 <br />Buddy Hartley: I’m okay with option B. 251 <br /> 252 <br />Paul Guthrie: I think I’ve said about all I need to say. When it comes time to vote I’ll support option B. I do think it’s a 253 <br />bigger issue than just this issue. 254 <br /> 255 <br />James Lea: Are we up for a vote on this tonight? 256 <br /> 257 <br />Lydia Wegman: I think we are supposed to make a recommendation to the BOCC in time for their December 258 <br />meeting. 259 <br /> 260 <br />James Lea: Based on what I have heard I think option B is a great option. 261 <br /> 262