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2 1 Chair Price mentioned current events, including the passing of Colin Powell and the 2 retirement announcement by Representative David Price after at least 30 years. She noted he 3 is still in office until December 2022. 4 5 Arts Moment— No Arts Moment was available for this meeting. 6 7 1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda 8 Chair Price suggested moving items 8-i and 8-j from the consent agenda to the regular 9 agenda, Item 6, for further discussion. 10 Commissioner Bedford asked to pull item 8-h from the consent agenda as well. 11 Chair Price said that item could be pulled for discussion when they reach item 8 on the 12 agenda. 13 14 A motion was made by Commissioner Fowler, seconded by Commissioner Hamilton, to 15 move items 8-i and 8-j from the consent agenda to the regular agenda as items 6-d and 6-e, 16 respectively. 17 18 Roll call ensued 19 20 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 21 22 2. Public Comments 23 24 a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda 25 Destinee Alston said she is a community health worker and case manager for Orange 26 County through Green Rural Redevelopment Organization (GRRO). She said she wanted to 27 introduce herself and the organization to the Commissioners and staff. She said GRRO has 28 received funding to provide services to Orange County, including COVID-related services, 29 mental health services, education, housing, groceries, and anything to better the quality of life 30 for families in the Orange County Area. She said she saw on the last meeting agenda that the 31 Family Success Alliance (FSA) was possibly looking for a liaison and GRRO is interested in 32 learning more and helping to further that mission as well. 33 34 b. Matters on the Printed Agenda 35 (These matters will be considered when the Board addresses that item on the agenda 36 below.) 37 38 3. Announcements, Petitions and Comments by Board Members 39 Commissioner Greene said she attended the Efland Seafood Festival a couple of weeks 40 ago, which was an interesting and fun experience. She said she attended the groundbreaking 41 for the Weaver's Grove development from Orange County Habitat yesterday, which is project 42 the county helped fund in Chapel Hill. She said it will be 237 units of mixed used development, 43 101 of which will be Habitat units. She said this project has been in the planning stages for 19 44 years. She said Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat International, is a Chapel Hill native and 45 made remarks. She said she also attended the Freedom Fund Banquet yesterday, held by the 46 Chapel Hill-Carrboro National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at 47 the Carraway drive-in movie theater in Chapel Hill. She said the speaker was Ns6 Ufot, CEO of 48 the New Georgia Project, which a non-partisan organization that has done work getting people 49 registered to vote in Georgia. She noted the unexpected death of Beau Bennett of Beau's 50 Catering, a very lively and great young man who touched a lot of lives. She said Mayor Jenn 51 Weaver wrote a tribute to him in this week's News of Orange.