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1 <br /> <br />APPROVED 1/21/2020 MINUTES <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />BUSINESS MEETING <br />December 2, 2019 <br />7:00 p.m. <br /> <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in a Business Meeting on Monday, <br />December 2, 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, Sally Greene, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, and Renee Price <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: None <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager <br />Travis Myren, and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified <br />appropriately below.) <br /> <br /> Chair Rich called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m. <br />Chair Rich said Commissioner Greene is running late, due to traffic. <br />John Roberts said the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) could switch up the <br />agenda to give Commissioner Greene more time. <br /> <br />A motion was made by Commissioner McKee, seconded by Commissioner Bedford, <br />to move forward in the agenda and come back to the Board Organization portion after <br />Commissioner Greene arrives. <br /> <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> <br />1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br /> <br />Chair Rich noted the following items at the Commissioners’ places: <br />- PowerPoint for Item 4-a <br /> <br />PUBLIC CHARGE <br />Chair Rich acknowledged the public charge. <br /> <br />Arts Moment <br />Doris Friend, Arts Commission Board Member, introduced Pam Baggett: <br />Pam Baggett is the author of Wild Horses, described by Terri Kirby Erickson as “a barebacked, <br />buck-naked ride on the slick haunches of fate (to the tune of Riders on the Storm) all the way <br />from the mystical land of sex, drugs, and rock & roll to the bedside of a dying friend.” She is a <br />recipient of an Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council, two <br />Artist Project Grants from the Orange County Arts Commission, and a 2019-20 Artist <br />Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. She co-hosts the Second Sunday Poetry <br />Reading Series at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, and hosts readings and teaches free writing <br />workshops at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough. New poems are forthcoming in <br />Cider Press Review, Kakalak, Plainsongs, and Tar River Poetry. When she isn’t writing, Pam is <br />outdoors, hiking trails along the Eno River or exploring her own back-forty.