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1 <br /> 1 Attachment 4 <br /> 2 <br /> 3 DRAFT <br /> 4 MINUTES <br /> 5 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> 6 REGULAR MEETING <br /> 7 September 17, 2019 <br /> 8 7:00 p.m. <br /> 9 <br /> 10 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, September <br /> 11 17, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. <br /> 12 <br /> 13 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Penny Rich and Commissioners Jamezetta <br /> 14 Bedford, Mark Dorosin, Sally Greene, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, and Renee Price <br /> 15 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: None <br /> 16 COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br /> 17 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager <br /> 18 Travis Myren and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified <br /> 19 appropriately below) <br /> 20 <br /> 21 Chair Rich called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m. <br /> 22 <br /> 23 1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br /> 24 <br /> 25 PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> 26 Chair Rich acknowledged the public charge. <br /> 27 <br /> 28 Arts Moment <br /> 29 Emily Cataneo introduced herself: <br /> 30 Emily Cataneo is a graduate of North Carolina State University's creative writing MFA. Her short <br /> 31 fiction has appeared in magazines such as Nightmare, Lightspeed, cream city review, <br /> 32 Smokelong Quarterly, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and was long listed for Best Science <br /> 33 Fiction and Fantasy 2016 and mentioned in Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018. She is a <br /> 34 journalist whose nonfiction has appeared in venues such as Slate, NPR, and the Boston Globe. <br /> 35 Currently, she is the co-founder of the Redbud Writing Project, the Triangle's only adult <br /> 36 education creative writing school, which offers six-week courses in memoir, fiction, and novel. <br /> 37 Emily Cataneo read the opening of"The Birch Circle," which takes place in Stalinist <br /> 38 Russia. <br /> 39 <br /> 40 2. Public Comments <br /> 41 <br /> 42 a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda <br /> 43 Don O'Leary said he does not come to Board meetings unless the Board does <br /> 44 something that he considers unconstitutional or stupid, and what the Board is considering with <br /> 45 the safety ordinance and guns is stupid. He said he does not believe any of this is about noise <br /> 46 or safety, but it is about a mindset, and he finds the Stalinist opening to the meeting apropos. <br /> 47 He said the Board is trying to take away their rights, and undermine the constitution. <br /> 48 Neal Galloway submitted a written petition requesting that all Board of County <br /> 49 Commissioner (BOCC) meetings allow for public comment, in order to allow timely and open <br /> 50 dialogue between the public and its elected officials. He said denying public comment at a work <br />