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1 <br /> 1 Attachment 2 <br /> 2 <br /> 3 DRAFT MINUTES <br /> 4 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> 5 SPECIAL MEETING <br /> 6 December 18, 2018 <br /> 7 7:00 p.m. <br /> 8 <br /> 9 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in Special Session on Tuesday, December <br /> 10 18, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. <br /> 11 <br /> 12 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Penny Rich and Commissioners Jamezetta <br /> 13 Bedford, Mark Dorosin, Sally Greene, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, and Renee Price <br /> 14 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: None <br /> 15 COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br /> 16 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager <br /> 17 Travis Myren and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified <br /> 18 appropriately below) <br /> 19 <br /> 20 Chair Rich called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. <br /> 21 <br /> 22 1. Changes to the Agenda <br /> 23 Chair Rich said this is a special meeting and the Board of County Commissioners <br /> 24 (BOCC) cannot make changes to the agenda. <br /> 25 Chair Rich noted the following items at the Commissioners' places: <br /> 26 <br /> 27 - PowerPoint for Item 4-a <br /> 28 -Audit report for Item 4-d <br /> 29 <br /> 30 PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> 31 The Chair dispensed with the reading of the public charge. <br /> 32 <br /> 33 Arts Moment <br /> 34 Tinka Jordy, Orange County Arts Commission Board Member, introduced the Arts <br /> 35 Moment: <br /> 36 Michael Chitwood has published 9 books of poetry. His most recent collection, Search <br /> 37 & Rescue, received the 2018 L.E. Phillabaum Prize from Louisiana State University Press. His <br /> 38 work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Oxford American, The Southern Review <br /> 39 and numerous other journals as well as on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. He <br /> 40 teaches at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. <br /> 41 Michael Chitwood read a poem called the Bikini Atoll Marching Band and Mt. Rushmore <br /> 42 Precision Drill Team, noting that the Bakini Atoll was where the first nuclear test was conducted. <br /> 43 He said this is a poem about how language and nostalgia are being used these days. <br /> 44 <br /> 45 2. Public Comments <br /> 46 <br /> 47 a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda <br /> 48 <br /> 49 Riley Ruske made the following comments: <br /> 50 <br />