Agenda - 03-07-2019 8-a - Minutes

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1 1 Attachment 1 2 3 DRAFT MINUTES 4 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 5 ANNUAL PLANNING RETREAT 6 Cedar Grove Community Center 7 January 25, 2019 8 9:00 a.m. 9 10 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for their annual Board retreat on Friday, 11 January 25, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. at the Cedar Grove Community Center in Hillsborough, N.C. 12 13 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Penny Rich and Commissioners Jamezetta 14 Bedford, Sally Greene, Mark Marcoplos, Earl McKee, and Renee Price 15 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: None 16 COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: John Roberts 17 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager 18 Travis Myren and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker. 19 FACILITATOR: Will Dudenhausen, Dispute Settlement Center 20 Observers— Department Directors and members of the public and news media. 21 Department Heads: Quintana Stewart, Nancy Coston, Janice Tyler, Dinah Jeffries, Annette 22 Moore Steve Brantley, Sherrill Hampton, Theo Letman, Alan Dorman, Craig Benedict, Rachel 23 Raper Gary Donaldson. Duane Brinson, Jim Northup, David Stancil, Cait Fenhagen. Todd 24 McGee 25 26 Chair Rich called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m. 27 28 9:00 Convene 29 30 Chair Rich opened the meeting, and the facilitator welcomed the group, introduced 31 himself, credited the retreat committee, and went through general housekeeping items for the 32 group. 33 The facilitator reviewed the meeting plan for the group, which was approved by the 34 Board without any addenda. 35 Chair Rich greeted the group by thanking Orange County staff for their participation and 36 attendance. She also thanked the retreat committee for putting together the meeting plan. 37 She reminded the group about prior agreements to not use cell phones or laptops during the 38 meeting. 39 Bonnie Hammersley reminded the group of staff's role in the meeting, i.e. to act as a 40 resource and to present some brief information about each meeting topic. She said all 41 department directors were invited, but not all were able to attend. She discussed the theme for 42 the day, the rural-urban makeup of Orange County, and alluded to the presentation from Travis 43 Myren about the different demographics of these areas of Orange County. 44 Bonnie Hammersley welcomed the two new commissioners by describing a 45 conversation she had with Commissioner McKee about how much he learned about the urban 46 parts of Orange County when he was first elected and expressed hope that the icebreaker 47 would spur the same sort of understanding from the group. She turned the floor over to Travis 48 Myren. 49 50 9:20 Icebreaker Activity; Intracounty Differences - (Travis Myren/Bonnie Hammersley, 51 Orange County Commissioners) Maps and Overview followed by talk from board members;