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1 1 Attachment 1 2 3 DRAFT MINUTES 4 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 5 BUSINESS MEETING 6 December 2, 2019 7 7:00 p.m. 8 9 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in a Business Meeting on Monday, 10 December 2, 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 Jamezetta 13 Bedford, Mark Dorosin, Sally Greene, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, and Renee Price 14 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: None 15 COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts 16 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager 17 Travis Myren, and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified 18 appropriately below.) 19 20 Chair Rich called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m. 21 Chair Rich said Commissioner Greene is running late, due to traffic. 22 John Roberts said the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) could switch up the 23 agenda to give Commissioner Greene more time. 24 25 A motion was made by Commissioner McKee, seconded by Commissioner Bedford, 26 to move forward in the agenda and come back to the Board Organization portion after 27 Commissioner Greene arrives. 28 29 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 30 31 1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda 32 33 Chair Rich noted the following items at the Commissioners' places: 34 - PowerPoint for Item 4-a 35 36 PUBLIC CHARGE 37 Chair Rich acknowledged the public charge. 38 39 Arts Moment 40 Doris Friend, Arts Commission Board Member, introduced Pam Baggett: 41 Pam Baggett is the author of Wild Horses, described by Terri Kirby Erickson as "a barebacked, 42 buck-naked ride on the slick haunches of fate (to the tune of Riders on the Storm) all the way 43 from the mystical land of sex, drugs, and rock & roll to the bedside of a dying friend." She is a 44 recipient of an Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council, two 45 Artist Project Grants from the Orange County Arts Commission, and a 2019-20 Artist 46 Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. She co-hosts the Second Sunday Poetry 47 Reading Series at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, and hosts readings and teaches free writing 48 workshops at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough. New poems are forthcoming in 49 Cider Press Review, Kakalak, Plainsongs, and Tar River Poetry. When she isn't writing, Pam is 50 outdoors, hiking trails along the Eno River or exploring her own back-forty.