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26 1 BOCC members serve on various County and County-related boards and commissions. On an 2 annual basis, BOCC members indicate their desire to continue serving on specific boards or 3 commissions or their desire to make changes. 4 5 Chair Price reviewed the process for selecting boards and commissions assignments. 6 She said each commissioner gets to save one board or commission position in order of 7 seniority, with the exception of Commissioner Richards, who does not currently sit on any 8 boards or commissions. She said Commissioner Richards will then get to pick a board or 9 commission position, and then the selection process will go in reverse order of seniority. She 10 said the process would continue to go back and forth until all positions were filled. 11 Chair Price said there are three task forces on the handout in the agenda packet that 12 were listed separately, due to the nature of the group. She said those task forces are not going 13 to be included in the selection process for boards and commissions assignments. 14 Chair Price said it was discussed during agenda review whether or not it was necessary 15 to continue having the Chatham Orange Joint Planning Task Force. She said there was not 16 much business for the task force, and Chatham County did not seem interested in continuing it. 17 Commissioner Greene said she thought there was a fourth task force that should be 18 removed from the selection process: the Transit Policy Steering Committee. She said the group 19 has always been voted for separate from other boards and commissions. She listed previous 20 Orange County Commissioners who were on the committee and said she served along with 21 former Commissioner Dorosin, who was replaced with Commissioner Fowler. 22 Commissioner Bedford said she supported Commissioner Greene's suggestion, but 23 wanted to make sure that Commissioner Fowler wanted to continue to serve on the committee. 24 Commissioner Greene agreed and said the Board could vote on the members of the 25 Transit Policy Steering Committee at the meeting, but that it should be a different process than 26 the boards and commissions selection process. 27 Commissioner Fowler said she had no problem with the committee being voted upon 28 separately, and she said there have been no meetings since she agreed to serve and she does 29 not feel tied to the committee. 30 Chair Price asked Commissioner Fowler if she would like to continue to serve on the 31 committee. 32 Commissioner Fowler said if no one else was interested, she was fine to continue to 33 serve. She asked about the schedule of the meetings. 34 Commissioner Greene said the next meeting is in January, and she would give 35 Commissioner Fowler the information. 36 Chair Price said the Strategic Communications Work Group has only met once. She 37 said she was not sure if Commissioner Hamilton wants to stay on the group. 38 Commissioner Hamilton said she is happy to stay on the group, but she questioned the 39 number of committees and the process for determining which committees should be chosen in a 40 round robin format and which should not. She said there should be criteria for why the Board 41 would treat some differently. She said groups with a specific task should not be decided in a 42 round robin process, but those that have ongoing work should be decided in a round robin 43 process. She said every commissioner should have a chance to serve on a committee and that 44 at some point each board or commission should be evaluated based on whether their work is 45 ongoing. 46 Chair Price said that evaluation took place during agenda review and highlighted the 47 library task force, the school capital needs task force, and the broadband task force. She said 48 she could see the broadband task force continuing, but right now the task force is getting ready 49 to look at bids. She said the Transit Policy Steering Committee was created after the light rail 50 issue. 51 Commissioner Greene said it had a specific task to revise the transit plan.