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24 voices on these boards. He said he would probably be in favor of not having elected officials on 1 these boards. 2 Commissioner Rich and Commissioner Price agreed. 3 Commissioner McKee said making it a policy will limit options, and if the BOCC does not 4 want to appoint someone to a board, for any reason, it can do so. He said a policy is 5 unnecessary. 6 Commissioner Price said having a policy would inform elected officials not to even apply, 7 and thus avoid getting their hopes up. 8 Commissioner McKee said these are big boys and girls, who can handle it. 9 Chair Dorosin said he is hearing that a majority of the Board of County Commissioners is 10 in favor of making this part of the advisory board policy. 11 Commissioner Rich suggested that the Clerk poll other jurisdictions, as maybe there are 12 other solutions out there. 13 Chair Dorosin asked if any members of the BOCC serve on municipal boards. 14 The Board said no. 15 Commissioner Rich said she would not even try to serve. 16 17 4. Discussion/Decision Point: 18 -Applicants – To consider either revising the Applicant Application to allow 19 applicants to include other governmental boards (municipal) they may be 20 currently serving on OR requiring that applicants can only serve on two 21 advisory boards (which our policy currently states but that only includes other 22 Orange County advisory boards) and including within this parameter for two 23 boards – both Orange County and/or municipal boards. 24 25 Chair Dorosin said this gets to the heart of the “closed circle” that participates in 26 boards/commissions. 27 Commissioner Price clarified that this would limit one from being on Orange County 28 Planning Board, Chapel Hill Planning Board and OWASA all at the same time, for example. 29 Chair Dorosin said yes. He said the current policy states that one can only serve on 2 30 Orange County boards, and this would limit service to one Orange County board and one other 31 board. 32 Donna Baker said in order to accomplish this staff could add another question to 33 application as to which boards an applicant is currently serving on outside of Orange County 34 boards. 35 Commissioner McKee said he is not in favor of this change as the BOCC already has 36 the authority to accept or reject any applicant to its boards/commissions. 37 Commissioner Price said one can serve on two County boards as well as one task force. 38 Commissioner Rich said it is important to know where other people are serving from an 39 informational standpoint, and perhaps a policy is unnecessary, but she would like to know the 40 information. 41 Commissioner McKee said he questions how often this is really happening, and doubts it 42 is happening enough to warrant a policy. He said he is fundamentally against layer upon layer 43 of bureaucracy. He said the BOCC is not swamped by applications for these boards or 44 commissions. 45 Chair Dorosin said the BOCC sees the same names over and over again. 46 Commissioner McKee said that happens everywhere: churches, fire departments, town 47 councils, etc. He questions why the BOCC would add layers to this process, as it seems to be 48 like killing a fly with a shotgun. 49 Commissioner Marcoplos said he basically agreed with Commissioner McKee, and 50 would rather just take it on a case-by-case basis. He said if one is worming their way onto 51