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1 <br /> <br />APPROVED 12/3/2018 <br /> MINUTES <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />November 13, 2018 <br />7:00 p.m. <br /> <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, November <br />13, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. <br /> <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Dorosin and Commissioners Mia Burroughs, <br />Barry Jacobs, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, Renee Price and Penny Rich <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: None <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager <br />Travis Myren and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified <br />appropriately below) <br /> <br /> Chair Dorosin called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. <br /> <br />1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br />Chair Dorosin noted the following items at the Commissioners’ places: <br />- PowerPoint for item 6-a <br />- Pink sheet: Proposed Item to be added to agenda: Resolution Opposing NCDOT Incursion <br />into Oosting Natural Area as Item 4-b <br /> <br />Commissioner Jacobs requested to add this resolution to the agenda as item 4-b. <br />Commissioner McKee objected to adding resolutions to the agenda at the last minute, <br />as the public is unaware of them. <br />Chair Dorosin noted the objection, and added the item to the agenda. <br /> <br />PUBLIC CHARGE <br />The chair dispensed with the reading of the Public Charge. <br /> <br />Arts Moment <br />Molly Waybright, Arts Commission intern, presented the artist: <br /> <br />Daniel Wallace is author of six novels, including Big Fish (1998), Ray in Reverse (2000), <br />The Watermelon King (2003), Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician (2007), The Kings and <br />Queens of Roam (2013), and most recently Extraordinary Adventures (May 2017). His <br />children’s book, published in 2014, and for which he did both the words and the pictures, is <br />called The Cat’s Pajamas, and it is adorable. In 2003 Big Fish was adapted and released as a <br />movie and then in 2013 the book and the movie were mish-mashed together and became a <br />Broadway musical. His novels have been translated into over two-dozen languages. Daniel is <br />the J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at <br />Chapel Hill, his alma mater, where he directs the Creative Writing Program. <br />Daniel Wallace read one of his short stories, titled: "The Men in the Woods". <br /> <br />2. Public Comments <br />