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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: March 16, 2021 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-d <br /> SUBJECT: Change in BOCC Meeting Schedule for 2021 <br /> DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Laura Jensen, Clerk to the Board, 919- <br /> 245-2130 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider changes to the Board of Commissioners' meeting calendar for 2021 . <br /> BACKGROUND: Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute 153A-40, the Board of County <br /> Commissioners must fix the time and place of its meetings or provide a notice of any change <br /> in the Meeting Schedule. <br /> There are two proposed Meeting Calendar changes for 2021 . <br /> The first change is to add a closed session for Monday, June 7, 2021 starting at 7:00 pm. The <br /> purpose of the closed session is "to consider the qualifications, competence, performance, <br /> character, fitness, conditions of appointment, or conditions of initial employment of an individual <br /> public officer or employee or prospective public officer or employee;" NCGS § 143-318.11(a)(6). <br /> Per North Carolina State Statutes, the meeting will start in open session. The public may attend <br /> the opening of the meeting until the closed session begins. With the addition of a closed session <br /> on June 7, the closed sessions currently scheduled for May 11 , May 13, and May 20, 2021 at <br /> 5:30 pm will be canceled. <br /> The second change relates to Board of Commissioners' meetings currently scheduled to occur <br /> in-person in 2021. Due to current public health concerns, it is proposed that the Board of <br /> Commissioners conduct Virtual Board meetings during the months of April, May, and June <br /> 2021 . <br /> Members of the Board of Commissioners would be participating in the meetings remotely. As <br /> in prior meetings, members of the public would be able to view and listen to the meeting via <br /> online streaming video or on Spectrum Cable TV. The meetings would be streamed in real- <br /> time on the County's website for public viewing/listening, real-time broadcast on Spectrum <br />