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AGENDA <br />November 30, 2005 <br />Planning and Agricultural Center <br />Revere Road, Hillsborough, NC <br />7:30 p.m. <br />Time Pate AGENDA ITEM <br />7:30 1. CALL TO ORDER <br />7:31 2. CONSIDERATION OF ADDITIONS TO AGENDA <br />7:32 01 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES — (September 21) <br />7:35 05 4. GUEST SPEAKER <br />(Gerry Cohn, American Farmland Trust) <br />Agricultural Development & Farmland Preservation Enabling <br />Act (Attachment 1) <br />8:15 15 5. ITEMS FOR DECISION <br />a. Lands Legacy Action Plan 2006 -2008 — Farmland <br />Preservation Objectives recommendations (Attachment #2) <br />b. New Voluntary Agricultural Districts Brochure <br />(Attachment #3) (page 27) <br />8:40 29 6. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION <br />a. Membership Matters under new ordinance (Attachment #4) <br />b. Ag Center Work Group status report / 2006 Agricultural <br />Summit (Attachment #5) (page 33) <br />C. "The Future of Food" — local strategies? <br />d. Updates to Mission Statement agenda page (Attachment #6) <br />e. Annual priorities for Board of Commissioners Retreat <br />(Attachment #7) (page 46) <br />8:55 56 7. INFORMATIONAL ITEMS <br />a. Farmland Preservation Report <br />b. "Farms, Communities and Collaboration — A guide to <br />resolving farm - neighbor conflict ". <br />c. Michigan legislature "Right to Farm Act" <br />d. News article "County, Public get to plan for growth " <br />9:00 8. ADJOURNMENT <br />