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1 <br /> APPROVED 4/16/2019 <br /> MINUTES <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> REGULAR MEETING <br /> April 2, 2019 <br /> 7:00 p.m. <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, April 2, <br /> 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Whitted Human Services Center in Hillsborough, N.C. <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Penny Rich and Commissioners <br /> Jamezetta Bedford, Mark Dorosin, Sally Greene, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, and Renee <br /> Price <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br /> COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Annette Moore, Staff Attorney <br /> COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County <br /> Manager Travis Myren, and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff members will <br /> be identified appropriately below) <br /> Chair Rich called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. <br /> 1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br /> Commissioner Dorosin suggested moving Item 8-f, Proclamation Recognizing the 110tn <br /> Anniversary of the NAACP, up to Item 4-d. <br /> Chair Rich proposed moving items 8-d and 8-e up to items to 4-f and 4-g since these are <br /> both tax office related items, and Dwane Brinson and his staff are here. <br /> Chair Rich noted the following items at the Commissioners' places: <br /> - Petition from Commissioner Bedford <br /> - PowerPoint for Items 4-e and 6-c <br /> - Capital Investment Plan (CIP) notebooks <br /> PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> Chair Rich acknowledged the public charge. <br /> Arts Moment <br /> Ashley Nissler, Orange County Arts Commission Member, introduced Fred Joiner: <br /> Fred Joiner is a poet and curator and the newly named Carrboro Poet Laureate. His work has <br /> appeared in Callaloo, Gargoyle, and Fledgling Rag, among other publications. Fred has read <br /> his work nationally and internationally. Joiner is a two-time winner of the Larry Neal Award for <br /> Poetry and a 2014 Artist Fellowship Winner as awarded by the D.C. Commission on the Arts <br /> and Humanities. Most recently, one of Joiner's poems won the Smithsonian's National Museum <br /> of African Art's Divine Comedy Poetry Contest, in response to Konate's textile work. As a <br /> curator of literary and visual arts programming, Joiner has worked with the American Poetry <br /> Museum, Belfast Exposed Gallery (Northern Ireland), Hillyer Artspace, Honfleur Gallery, Medina <br /> Galerie (Bamako, Mali), the Phillips Collection, the Prince Georges African American Museum <br /> and Cultural Center, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and others. He is the co-founder of The <br /> Center for Poetic Thought currently based at the Monroe Street Market in Washington, DC. <br /> Joiner is a Board Member of The American Poetry Museum and the Orange County Arts <br /> Commission. <br /> Fred Joiner read a poem from a collection called "Dark Testament and Other Poems" by <br /> Pauli Murray about freedom. <br />