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1 1 Attachment 1 2 3 DRAFT MINUTES 4 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 5 REGULAR MEETING 6 April 2, 2019 7 7:00 p.m. 8 9 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, April 2, 10 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Whitted Human Services Center in Hillsborough, N.C. 11 12 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Penny Rich and Commissioners 13 Jamezetta Bedford, Mark Dorosin, Sally Greene, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, and Renee 14 Price 15 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: 16 COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Annette Moore, Staff Attorney 17 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County 18 Manager Travis Myren, and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff members will 19 be identified appropriately below) 20 21 Chair Rich called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. 22 23 1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda 24 Commissioner Dorosin suggested moving Item 8-f, Proclamation Recognizing the 110t" 25 Anniversary of the NAACP, up to Item 4-d. 26 Chair Rich proposed moving items 8-d and 8-e up to items to 4-f and 4-g since these 27 are both tax office related items, and Dwane Brinson and his staff are here. 28 Chair Rich noted the following items at the Commissioners' places: 29 - Petition from Commissioner Bedford 30 - PowerPoint for Items 4-e and 6-c 31 - Capital Investment Plan (CIP) notebooks 32 33 PUBLIC CHARGE 34 Chair Rich acknowledged the public charge. 35 36 Arts Moment 37 Ashley Nissler, Orange County Arts Commission Member, introduced Fred Joiner: 38 Fred Joiner is a poet and curator and the newly named Carrboro Poet Laureate. His work has 39 appeared in Callaloo, Gargoyle, and Fledgling Rag, among other publications. Fred has read 40 his work nationally and internationally. Joiner is a two-time winner of the Larry Neal Award for 41 Poetry and a 2014 Artist Fellowship Winner as awarded by the D.C. Commission on the Arts 42 and Humanities. Most recently, one of Joiner's poems won the Smithsonian's National Museum 43 of African Art's Divine Comedy Poetry Contest, in response to Konate's textile work. As a 44 curator of literary and visual arts programming, Joiner has worked with the American Poetry 45 Museum, Belfast Exposed Gallery (Northern Ireland), Hillyer Artspace, Honfleur Gallery, Medina 46 Galerie (Bamako, Mali), the Phillips Collection, the Prince Georges African American Museum 47 and Cultural Center, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and others. He is the co-founder of The 48 Center for Poetic Thought currently based at the Monroe Street Market in Washington, DC. 49 Joiner is a Board Member of The American Poetry Museum and the Orange County Arts 50 Commission.