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Attachment 2 1 1 MINUTES 2 ORANGE COUNTY 3 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 4 VIRTUAL LEGISLATIVE BREAKFAST 5 March 21, 2022 6 8:30 a.m. 7 8 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a virtual breakfast meeting with the 9 Orange County Legislative Delegation on Monday, March 21, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. 10 11 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Renee Price, Vice Chair Jamezetta Bedford, 12 and Commissioners Amy Fowler (arrived at 9:10 a.m.), Sally Greene, Jean Hamilton, and 13 Anna Richards 14 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Commissioner Earl McKee 15 COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts 16 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager 17 Travis Myren, Clerk to the Board Laura Jensen, and Assistant to Manager for Legislative 18 Affairs Greg Wilder (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) 19 LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION PRESENT: Representative Verla Insko, Representative Graig 20 Meyer, and Senator Valerie Foushee (arrived at 8:39 a.m.) 21 22 Chair Price called the meeting to order at 8:35 a.m. 23 24 Due to current public health concerns, the Board of Commissioners is conducting a 25 Virtual Legislative Breakfast on March 21, 2022 utilizing Zoom. Members of the Board of 26 Commissioners will be participating in the meeting remotely. As in prior meetings, members of 27 the public will be able to view and listen to the meeting via live streaming video at 28 orangecountync.gov/967/Meeting-Videos and on Orange County Gov-TV on channels 1301 or 29 97.6 (Spectrum Cable). 30 31 A roll call of the County Commissioners was called; all members were present except for 32 Commissioner Fowler and Commissioner McKee. 33 34 Chair Price welcomed the legislative delegation. She noted that it was the last time that 35 the current legislative delegation will be together with the commissioners. 36 The Board of County Commissioners introduced themselves and welcomed the 37 Representatives. 38 39 Senator Valerie Foushee arrived at 8:39 a.m. 40 41 Chair Price invited the legislative delegation to introduce themselves. 42 Representative Meyer said they were on a break from the longest long session in 43 General Assembly history. He said the upcoming session is expected to be short. He said they 44 anticipate making amendments to the budget that don't affect tax policy and will not be 45 controversial. He said there is discussion of major legislation including Medicaid expansion 46 and legalization of medical marijuana. He said it is not clear if it will proceed or not. 47 Representative Insko said she would be in office until after the May primary. She said 48 she has learned a lot from the position. She said government is complex and you keep 49 learning. She said in order to be effective you have to dig into the issues. She said she was 50 looking forward to traveling.