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37 <br />the meeting (see the minutes and agenda materials at Appendix O), <br />Commissioner Moses Carey, .Tr. referred to the agenda materials in which his <br />Residential District Election plan proposal to expand the Board from five to <br />seven members was described. Five of the seven Board members would be <br />elected from residential districts and two commissioners would be elected on <br />an at-large basis, (This election method equates to the Combination of Pure <br />At-Large and Pure District election method discussed in another section of <br />this document which addresses current election methods for boards of <br />county commissioners in North Carolina's counties.) <br />After discussion by the BOCC, Commissioner Carey made a motion, as <br />noted in the minutes, seconded by Commissioner William Crowther, "to <br />adopt a Residential District Election plan for the election of Commissioners <br />and instruct the County Attorney and County Manager to develop a plan for <br />implementation of this plan as soon as possible. The implementation plan <br />must be consistent with all state and federal laws governing the electoral <br />process and include a public hearing in Northern and Southern Orange <br />County at the draft stage of the plan," The motion failed on a 2-3 vote. <br />