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1 <br /> 1 Attachment 3 <br /> 2 <br /> 3 DRAFT MINUTES <br /> 4 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> 5 REGULAR MEETING <br /> 6 March 19, 2019 <br /> 7 7:00 p.m. <br /> 8 <br /> 9 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, March 19, <br /> 10 2019 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. Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br /> 23 <br /> 24 Chair Rich said Item 4-a will be deferred, due to staff illness. <br /> 25 The Board agreed by consensus to move Items 11-a and 11- b up to Items 4-b and 4- <br /> 26 c, since Bob Marotto, Animal Services Director, was in attendance to address any questions. <br /> 27 <br /> 28 PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> 29 Chair Rich acknowledged the public charge. <br /> 30 <br /> 31 Arts Moment <br /> 32 Orange County Arts Commission Member Ashley Nissler introduced Joan Barasovka: <br /> 33 <br /> 34 Arts Moment—Joan Barasovska grew up in Philadelphia and lives in Chapel Hill, North <br /> 35 Carolina. She is an academic therapist in private practice. Joan co-hosts the Flyleaf Books <br /> 36 Second Thursday Poetry Series at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill. She serves on the Board of <br /> 37 the North Carolina Poetry Society. "Birthing Age", from Finishing Line Press, is her first book of <br /> 38 poetry. <br /> 39 Joan Barasovska read three poems: <br /> 40 First reading: Early March <br /> 41 Second reading: The Tower of my Adult Aloneness <br /> 42 Third reading: Orange County <br /> 43 <br /> 44 Chair Rich referred to the tragedy in New Zealand, and read some comments about <br /> 45 the need to stand up against hatred and acts of violence in any form. <br /> 46 <br /> 47 2. Public Comments <br /> 48 <br /> 49 a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda <br /> 50 Myra Dodson said she is here to continue her conversation about sewage and <br /> 51 sludge/toxic waste that is dumped on farmland in Orange County. She said she is president <br />