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1 <br /> 1 Attachment 2 <br /> 2 <br /> 3 DRAFT <br /> 4 MINUTES <br /> 5 ORANGE COUNTY <br /> 6 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> 7 BUSINESS MEETING <br /> 8 December 10, 2019 <br /> 9 7:00 p.m. <br /> 10 <br /> 11 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in a business meeting on Tuesday, <br /> 12 December 10, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. <br /> 13 <br /> 14 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Penny Rich and Commissioners Jamezetta <br /> 15 Bedford, Mark Dorosin, Sally Greene, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, and Renee Price <br /> 16 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br /> 17 COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br /> 18 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager <br /> 19 Travis Myren, and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker. (All other staff members will be identified <br /> 20 appropriately below.) <br /> 21 <br /> 22 Chair Rich called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. <br /> 23 <br /> 24 1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br /> 25 <br /> 26 PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> 27 Chair Rich acknowledged the public charge. <br /> 28 <br /> 29 Arts Moment: <br /> 30 Katie Murray, Arts Commission Director, introduced Andrea Selch: <br /> 31 Andrea Selch joined the board of Carolina Wren Press 2001, after the publication of her <br /> 32 poetry chapbook, Succory, which was #2 in the Carolina Wren Press poetry chapbook series. <br /> 33 She has an MFA from UNC-Greensboro, and a PhD from Duke University, where she taught <br /> 34 creative writing from 1999 until 2003. Her poems have been published in Calyx, Equinox, The <br /> 35 Greensboro Review, Oyster Boy Review, Luna, Swink, The MacGuffin, Prairie Schooner, The <br /> 36 Southern Review and featured on the Best American Poetry blog. Her full-length collection of <br /> 37 poetry, Startling, was published by Turning Point Press in October, 2004, and reissued by <br /> 38 Cockeyed Press in 2009. In 2007, Choreo Collective danced her "Holy Shell Waiting for the <br /> 39 Return of the Soul," and "Early Weaning" at the biennial symposium of Duke University's Sallie <br /> 40 Bingham Center for the Study of Women's History and Culture. She won a 2008 "Hippo" Award <br /> 41 from The Monti for her spoken story, "Replacement Child." Her small collection of Ekphrastic <br /> 42 poems, Boy Returning Water to the Sea: Koans for Kelly Fearing, was published by Cockeyed <br /> 43 Press in 2009, and in 2011 a selection of her work appeared in The Book of Ystwyth: Six Poets <br /> 44 on the Art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins. After a dozen years as President of Carolina Wren Press, <br /> 45 she now devotes her time to coaching the Triangle Equestrian Vaulters, while continuing to <br /> 46 work on a second full-length manuscript entitled "Oh My Darling". <br /> 47 Andrea Selch read two poems, one for fall and one for spring: "Kathexis" and "Early <br /> 48 Berry Picking". <br /> 49 <br /> 50 2. Public Comments <br />