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6 <br /> INFORMATIONAL ITEM <br /> r"r f-r».c=sue.-. '. �`�✓�r 3 r <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> To: Board of County Commissioners <br /> Frank Clifton, Interim County Manager <br /> From: Johnny Randall and Michelle Kempinski, Co-Chairs <br /> Date: November 17, 2009 <br /> Re: Recommendation for Discontinuing the Spraying of Herbicides <br /> on Roadsides and Utility Rights-of-Way in Orange County <br /> Over the past year the Orange County Commission for the Environment (CFE) has <br /> considered the use of herbicides to manage the growth of vegetation along roadsides <br /> and utility rights-of-way. The CFE has also discussed the value of those roadsides <br /> and rights-of-way as habitat for native plants and wildlife. <br /> The attached resolution, adopted by the CFE, recommends that all use of herbicides <br /> to manage roadsides and rights-of-way in Orange County be discontinued, and that <br /> mowing be reinstated as the sole means of managing unwanted growth of trees and <br /> shrubs in those areas. <br /> This resolution is a follow-up to a December 2006 memorandum to the Board of <br /> Commissioners in which the CFE provided thoughts and recommendations on the <br /> use of herbicides on roadsides and utility rights-of-way. A copy of that memorandum <br /> is attached for your reference (Attachment 2). <br /> Members of the Commission for the Environment (CFE) are available to answer any <br /> questions and are willing to present its recommendations at an upcoming Board of <br /> Commissioners meeting. <br /> Attachments <br /> cow --sCakt(or the E7vi,✓rotvtevtt <br /> C/o orawge couwtg FRCP <br /> Po pox 81sn 13a6-A Revere Road <br /> HCCGs6orouc�G, NC 2���8 <br />