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b. 2021 Meeting Calendar—Stancil reminded council that meetings are held at 6:30 pm the first Wednesday of each month except January and July. Meetings are held in either Hillsborough (EAC conference room) or Chapel Hill (Animal Services conference room), except the May meeting which is held at a park, location determined by the council. Stancil noted that if construction stays on schedule, the August meeting could be held in the new Environment &Agricultural Center on Hwy 70. Tim Tippen asked if the plan is to meet in person next month. Stancil replied that Orange County has extended the State of Emergency through March 315t and the February and March meetings will be held virtually. Chair Rhodes asked if there would be a virtual option for those with health concerns once the State of Emergency is lifted. Stancil replied that yes the BOCC agreed in March 2020 to continue to allow people to attend meetings virtually under certain circumstances. The intent was not to allow only virtual attendance but if you have a special situation that keeps you from being able to attend in person there would be an opportunity to attend virtually going forward. Motion by Bruce Chinery to adopt meeting calendar as presented. Seconded by Cecily Kritz. Vote was unanimous. V. Old Business None VI. Report of the Director—Blackwood Farm Park Update: Stancil reported that the Blackwood Farm Park construction plans should be complete soon, going out to bid in the spring with construction beginning in the summer. Stancil will consider adding this item to the March agenda and having Marabeth Carr, Landscape Architect, attending to discuss the plans with Council. Outside Agency Funding request— Stancil stated that applications are due January 14 to the Manager/Clerk's office. The applications will be sent to the appropriate board for scoring and evaluation and are due back to Manager/Clerk's office February 26th. This evaluation normally occurs at the March meeting but has been accelerated this year. In the past staff has forwarded the applications along with the scoring sheets in advance of the council meeting for members review. The Council would discuss and assign a number to each application. This takes an entire meeting because the scoring can be somewhat complicated based on the criteria. Stancil stated that the Board of Health creates a subcommittee to review and evaluate the applications they receive. Stancil also stated that PRC will likely receive three applications, as that is what they had last year. Chinery asked if three council members would be interested in evaluating prior to the February meeting. Stancil pointed out that the council could appoint a subcommittee tonight or at their February meeting. Chinery asked for a show of hands of those that might be interested. Gina Reyman stated that she isn't opposed to a subcommittee but it is nice to have the opportunity to go through the applications with the whole group. Reyman would like to meet as a group at the regularly scheduled meeting and go through as much as possible. Reyman felt the group review was beneficial because different members knew about the groups, while some didn't know anything about them. Reyman would like a full group discussion with the possibility of a subcommittee forming if needed after that discussion. Stancil stated applications have to be processed by Finance and may not be available for distribution prior to January 22"d—giving the council ten days to look at prior to the next meeting. Chinery feels like it would be