Minutes 12-14-2021 Virtual Business Meeting

Browse Search

26 c. BOCC Boards and Commissions Assignments The Board selected the boards and commissions on which Board members would like to serve during 2022. BACKGROUND: BOCC members serve on various County and County-related boards and commissions. On an annual basis, BOCC members indicate their desire to continue serving on specific boards or commissions or their desire to make changes. Chair Price reviewed the process for selecting boards and commissions assignments. She said each commissioner gets to save one board or commission position in order of seniority, with the exception of Commissioner Richards, who does not currently sit on any boards or commissions. She said Commissioner Richards will then get to pick a board or commission position, and then the selection process will go in reverse order of seniority. She said the process would continue to go back and forth until all positions were filled. Chair Price said there are three task forces on the handout in the agenda packet that were listed separately, due to the nature of the group. She said those task forces are not going to be included in the selection process for boards and commissions assignments. Chair Price said it was discussed during agenda review whether or not it was necessary to continue having the Chatham Orange Joint Planning Task Force. She said there was not much business for the task force, and Chatham County did not seem interested in continuing it. Commissioner Greene said she thought there was a fourth task force that should be removed from the selection process: the Transit Policy Steering Committee. She said the group has always been voted for separate from other boards and commissions. She listed previous Orange County Commissioners who were on the committee and said she served along with former Commissioner Dorosin, who was replaced with Commissioner Fowler. Commissioner Bedford said she supported Commissioner Greene's suggestion, but wanted to make sure that Commissioner Fowler wanted to continue to serve on the committee. Commissioner Greene agreed and said the Board could vote on the members of the Transit Policy Steering Committee at the meeting, but that it should be a different process than the boards and commissions selection process. Commissioner Fowler said she had no problem with the committee being voted upon separately, and she said there have been no meetings since she agreed to serve and she does not feel tied to the committee. Chair Price asked Commissioner Fowler if she would like to continue to serve on the committee. Commissioner Fowler said if no one else was interested, she was fine to continue to serve. She asked about the schedule of the meetings. Commissioner Greene said the next meeting is in January, and she would give Commissioner Fowler the information. Chair Price said the Strategic Communications Work Group has only met once. She said she was not sure if Commissioner Hamilton wants to stay on the group. Commissioner Hamilton said she is happy to stay on the group, but she questioned the number of committees and the process for determining which committees should be chosen in a round robin format and which should not. She said there should be criteria for why the Board would treat some differently. She said groups with a specific task should not be decided in a round robin process, but those that have ongoing work should be decided in a round robin process. She said every commissioner should have a chance to serve on a committee and that at some point each board or commission should be evaluated based on whether their work is ongoing.