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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 17, 2004 Action Agenda Item No. 9- o(- .1 SUBJECT• Agricultural Preservation Board -One New Appointment DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No ATTACHMENT(S): Under Separate Cover Membership Roster Excerpt "Orange County Voluntary Farmland Preservation Program Ordinance" INFORMATION CONTACT: Clerk's Office, ext. 2130, 2125, 2126, 2129 Application(s)/Resume(s) of Person(s) TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Applying for a Seat Hillsborough 245-2130 Interest List Chapel Hill 968-4501 Application(s)/Resume(s) of Person(s) on the Durham 688-7331 Interest List Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider making one appointment to the Agricultural Preservation Board to the James and Patricia Wynn Farm Voluntary Agricultural District. BACKGROUND: The Agricultural Preservation Board shall consist of up to seven (7) At-Large members plus one member for each Voluntary Agricultural (VA) District created and existing under the Orange County Voluntary Farmland Preservation Program Ordinance, all appointed by the Board of County Commissioners. Four new VA Districts have been approved in the past few years, with the total now at nine (9). Not all of the owners of farms designated as a VA District or in a VA District have applied or wish to serve on the Ag. Board. See explanatory notes on the chart following. Dr. James Wynn, co-owner of the farm comprising the James and Patricia Wynn Farm VA District, has applied for a seat on the Agricultural Preservation Board. FINANCIAL IMPACT: None RECOMMENDATION(S): Consider appointing Dr. James Wynn to the James and Patricia Wynn Farm VA District, for a term in accordance with Section IV.B.2 of the Orange County Voluntary Farmland Preservation Program Ordinance.