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1 <br /> 1 Attachment 1 <br /> 2 <br /> 3 DRAFT MINUTES <br /> 4 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> 5 REGULAR MEETING <br /> 6 March 7, 2019 <br /> 7 7:00 p.m. <br /> 8 <br /> 9 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Thursday, March 7, <br /> 10 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Whitted Human Services Center in Hillsborough, N.C. <br /> 11 <br /> 12 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Penny Rich and Commissioners <br /> 13 Jamezetta Bedford, Mark Dorosin, Sally Greene, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, and Renee <br /> 14 Price <br /> 15 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br /> 16 COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br /> 17 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: Deputy County Manager Travis Myren and Clerk to the Board <br /> 18 Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br /> 19 <br /> 20 Chair Rich called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. <br /> 21 <br /> 22 1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br /> 23 Chair Rich said the Planning Commission asked if Item 11 c could be deferred. She <br /> 24 noted the following items at the Commissioners' places: <br /> 25 - PowerPoint for Items 4b and 5a <br /> 26 Commissioner Price requested to move Item 8-f up to Item 4-a. <br /> 27 The Board agreed by consensus. <br /> 28 <br /> 29 PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> 30 Chair Rich acknowledged the public charge. <br /> 31 <br /> 32 Arts Moment <br /> 33 Orange County Arts Commission (OCAC) Advisory Board Member Chris Kubica <br /> 34 introduced Steven Petrow: <br /> 35 <br /> 36 Steven Petrow is an award-winning journalist and book author who is best known for his <br /> 37 Washington Post and New York Times essays on civility and manners, aging and cancer. He <br /> 38 was recently named as an opinion columnist for the USA TODAY Network. His work has been <br /> 39 published in TIME, The Atlantic, Salon, the Daily Beast, the Los Angeles Times and The <br /> 40 Advocate. You're likely to hear Petrow when you turn on NPR's "All Things Considered <br /> 41 Weekend," or one of your favorite (or least favorite) TV networks (MSNBC, PBS, CBS, Fox and <br /> 42 CNN). Petrow is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including those from the National <br /> 43 Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution, the Ucross Foundation, the Virginia <br /> 44 Center for the Creative Arts and the National Press Foundation. In 2017, he became the named <br /> 45 sponsor of the Petrow LGBTQ Fellowship at the VCCA, a prize that is awarded annually. <br /> 46 Petrow, with three degrees from Duke University and the University of California, Berkeley, lives <br /> 47 in Hillsborough, N.C. <br /> 48 <br /> 49 He read "Three Ways to Practice Civility," a condensed version of a TED talk that he gave <br /> 50 in New York in January 2019. <br />