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1 <br />2 DRAFT <br />3 MINUTES <br />4 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />5 REGULAR MEETING <br />6 September 2, 2003 <br />7 7:30 p.m. <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for regular session on Tuesday, September 2, <br />11 2003 at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, <br />12 <br />1.3 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Margaret Brown and Commissioners <br />14 Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M. Gordon, Stephen Halkiotis, and Barry Jacobs <br />15 COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill and Sean Barhanian <br />16 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager.lohn M. Link, Jr,, Assistant County <br />17 Managers Rod Visser and Gwen Harvey, and Clerk to the Board Donna S, Baker (AII other staff <br />18 members will be identified appropriately below) <br />19 <br />20 NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE <br />21 PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE <br />22 <br />2:3 <br />24 1. ADDITIONS OR CHANGES TO THE AGENDA <br />25 Chair Brown asked to move item 6-b in front of presentations and make it before 6-a so <br />26 that the elementary children from New Hope Elementary who are visiting with us tonight for item <br />27 6-b would not have to stay up late. <br />28 <br />29 2. PUBLIC COMMENTS <br />30 <br />31 a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda -NONE <br />32 <br />33 b. Matters on the Printed Agenda <br />34 (These matters were considered when the Board addressed that item on the <br />35 agenda below.) <br />36 <br />37 3. BOARD COMMENTS <br />38 Commissioner Halkiotis had no comments. <br />39 Commissioner Carey asked the Board of County Commissioners to consider an item of <br />40 the school boards -truancy policies and how they relate to the OCJP board, <br />41 John Link will add this to the joint meeting with the school boards. <br />42 Commissioner Gordon reported that TTA had a board of trustee meeting recently and is <br />4.3 updating service standards, The TTA is moving forward with Phase I and discussing ways to <br />44 plan for Phase II, <br />45 Commissioner Gordon reported on the Triangle J COG Executive Committee meeting <br />46 and Hated they have moved to their new offices. <br />47 Commissioner Gordon said that Chair of the Durham County Commissioners, Ellen <br />48 Reckhow, and Triangle J Council of Governments are trying to get the three county <br />49 commissioner Chairs from Durham, Orange, and Wake Counties together, They are going to <br />50 have a meeting of the three Commissioners and staff an September 9`h, Chair Brown has <br />