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1 <br /> <br />APPROVED 10/15/2019 <br /> <br />MINUTES <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />October 1, 2019 <br />7:00 p.m. <br /> <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, October 1, <br />2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Whitted Human Services Center in Hillsborough, N.C. <br /> <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Penny Rich and Commissioners Jamezetta <br />Bedford, Mark Dorosin, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, and Renee Price <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Commissioner Sally Greene <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager <br />Travis Myren, and Deputy Clerk Sherri Ingersoll (All other staff members will be identified <br />appropriately below.) <br /> <br /> Chair Rich called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. <br /> <br />1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br /> <br />Commissioner McKee asked if item 8-e and item 8-f could be switched, so that item 8- <br />e will be the last item. He said he would like to recuse himself from this discussion, since <br />Summit Engineering employs him. <br /> <br />PUBLIC CHARGE <br />Chair Rich acknowledged the public charge. <br /> <br />Arts Moment <br />Linda Williamson, Arts Commission member, introduced the artist: <br /> <br />Lyn Fairchild Hawks writes young adult contemporary fiction about gifted, weird, and <br />wise teens. She is the author of How Wendy Redbird Dancing Survived the Dark Ages of <br />Nought; Minerda, a graphic novella collaboration with illustrator Robin Follet; and the short- <br />story collection, The Flat and Weightless Tang-Filled Future. She and her literary agent are <br />currently submitting her latest novel to publishers, a story about an intrepid teen journalist <br />exposing the truth about corruption on her school’s sports teams. In her other life, Lyn is an <br />education geek who designs online learning courses for gifted youth at Duke TIP, and a <br />former AIG resource teacher for AL Stanback and CW Stanford Middle Schools. She lives in <br />Chapel Hill with her husband, Americana musician Greg Hawks. Her stepson, Henry, is a <br />graduate of Cedar Ridge High School and DePaul University. <br />Lyn Fairchild Hawks read a scene from her novel How Wendy Redbird Dancing <br />Survived the Dark Ages of Nought. She said this book is characteristic of what many <br />teenagers deal with in today’s world. She thanked the Board of County Commissioners for its <br />support of the arts. <br /> <br />2. Public Comments <br />a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda