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<br />1 <br />Approved 3/2/2016 1 <br /> 2 <br />MINUTES 3 <br />PLANNING BOARD 4 <br />JANUARY 6, 2016 5 <br />REGULAR MEETING 6 <br /> 7 <br />MEMBERS PRESENT: Lydia Wegman (Vice Chair), At-Large Chapel Hill Township; James Lea, Cedar Grove Township 8 <br />Representative; Paul Guthrie, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; Andrea Rohrbacher, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; 9 <br />Maxecine Mitchell, At-Large Bingham Township; Patricia Roberts, Cheeks Township Representative; Laura 10 <br />Nicholson, Eno Township Representative; Herman Staats, At-Large; Lisa Stuckey, Chapel Hill Township 11 <br />Representative; Tony Blake, Bingham Township Representative 12 <br /> 13 <br />MEMBERS ABSENT: Buddy Hartley, Little River Township Representative 14 <br /> 15 <br />STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor, Perdita Holtz, 16 <br />Special Projects Coordinator, Meredith Pucci, Administrative Assistant II; Ashley Moncado, Special Projects Planner 17 <br /> 18 <br />AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER 19 <br /> 20 <br />Lydia Wegman: Opened the meeting by making sure everybody was there that was coming. 21 <br /> 22 <br />AGENDA ITEM 2: ELECTION OF CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR FOR 2016 23 <br /> 24 <br />Lydia Wegman: The first thing we have to do is our elections. 25 <br /> 26 <br />Lisa Stuckey: Lydia, are you interested in being the Chair? 27 <br /> 28 <br />Lydia Wegman: I am willing to be the Chair if that is the will of our Board. But if others would prefer to be the Chair I 29 <br />have no problem with that. Anybody else interested? 30 <br /> 31 <br />MOTION made by Laura Nicholson to elect Lydia Wegman as Chair. Seconded by Patricia Roberts. 32 <br />VOTE: Unanimous 33 <br /> 34 <br />Lydia Wegman: Okay. Nominations for Vice-Chair. 35 <br /> 36 <br />Maxecine Mitchell: How about Tony? 37 <br /> 38 <br />Tony Blake: Well I will be Vice-Chair, if that’s the will of the Board. 39 <br /> 40 <br />MOTION made by Maxecine Mitchell to elect Tony as Vice-Chair, seconded by Laura Nicholson. 41 <br />VOTE: Unanimous 42 <br /> 43 <br />AGENDA ITEM 3: INFORMATIONAL ITEMS 44 <br />a. Planning Calendar for January and February 45 <br /> 46 <br />Lydia Wegman reviewed the calendar and discussed a change in the rules; the Chair or the Vice-Chair is required to 47 <br />attend the quarterly meeting. Everyone else is expected to attend, but not required. 48 <br /> 49 <br />Craig Benedict: The quarterly public hearing is a different date than usual in February. Usually it’s later in the month 50 <br />and on Monday but this year it’s on a Thursday, so just make special note of that. 51