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ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSION - FOR THE ENVIRONMENT DRAFT Summary of Meeting Fifteen , March 08 , 1999 Held in Orange County Southern Human Services Center, Chapel Hill , NC (Prepared by Adhir Kackar, Planner I, Orange County Planning Department) Members Present : Commissioner Alice Gordon, Annette Jurgelski, Loraine Kohorn, Rosalinda Lidh, Daniel Okun, Richard Pratt, Kris Price , Lee Rafalow, and Jane Sharp-MacRae . Excused Absences : Roy Fortmann, William Glaze Guests : R. J Beaty, News of Orange ; Slade McCalip , Orange County Planning Dept . , Mary McDowell, Chatham County Nuclear Issues Consultant; Paul Thames , Orange County Engineering Department, Staff Present : David Stancil, Director Department of Environment and Resource Conservation and Adhir Kackar, Planner I . I. Call to Order Chair Loraine Kohorn, called meeting to order at 70. 30 PM . II. Consideration of Additions of Changes to the Agenda The Commission approved that discussion of a CFE liaison to the Parks and Recreation Work Group be added to agenda as Item IV . Dr. Gordon informed the Commission that her responsibilities as Chair of the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) , require that she reduce her attendance at CFE meetings . Given this she would no longer be serving as member of the CFE, rather she would be the BOCC liaison to the CFE. III. Approval of January 11 , 1999 minutes The following changes to minutes was approved. Item 9 Review of Priorities from January was changed to read as follows : (change in bold) Loraine Kohorn began discussion by asking CFE if they wanted to make any changes to the resolutions drafted at the January meeting . Rafalow mentioned that he did not notice indicators as a priority Stancil remarked that the SOCF Task Force is not doing any work with indicators . Instead the current thinking is to forward the report and indicator assessment, to the towns and Orange County for further development. Annette Jurgelski asked if the Commission would be assigning tasks . To this Stancil suggested that the CFE receive BOCC feedback and then develop a draft work program . Kohorn _ agreed that input from the BOCC would be beneficial . Stancil concluded comments , by suggesting that the CFE review the ERCD Status report in the next month to assist in determining their priorities . IV. CFE liaison to the Parks & Recreation Work Group Chair Kohorn began discussion on the issue of whether CFE should liaison with the Joint Master Parks & Recreation Work Group . The following is a summary of the comments made by CFE members and ERCD staff during discussion of this matter . Discussion culminated with the approval of Loraine Kohorn as a CFE liaison to the Joint Master Parks and Recreation Work Group . Kohorn : The Master Park & Recreation group are in the process of prioritizing funds for land acquisition given this CFE should consider a liaison . Lidh : What is the meeting schedule for Park and Recreation meetings ? Stancil. Parks & Recreation meets every 4th Wednesday at 6900 PM 1