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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 24, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Public Hearing on the Structure of the Board of County Commissioners <br />DEPARTMENT: County Attorney, County <br />Commissioners & County <br />Manager <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) Excerpt from May 5, 2005 Work <br />Session Minutes <br />2) Definition of a Resident Information <br />3) County Commissioner Partisan Election <br />Provisions <br />4) NC Counties Population /Concentration <br />Comparison with Orange County <br />5) Minutes from Five Meetings of the 1993 <br />Task Force on the Process of Electing <br />County Commissioners <br />6) Multimember or Unusual County <br />Commissioner Election Systems <br />7) Super Districts — Artie Franklin Letter to <br />Chapel Hill Herald Editor <br />8) Three Counties Methods of Election <br />Fallow -up <br />9) Options for Electing County <br />Commissioners by Residential Districts <br />from Chair Carey <br />10)May 2005 Staff Report on the Structure <br />of Boards of County Commissioners <br />(Previously Provided Under Separate <br />Cover) <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Moses Carey, Jr., Chair <br />Geof Gledhill, County Attorney, 732 -2196 <br />Greg Wilder, ext. 2300 <br />David Hunt, ext 2130 <br />John Link, ext 2300 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />Mebane 336 - 227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To hold the first of two public hearings on the structure of the Board of County <br />Commissioners. <br />BACKGROUND: At the Board's January 24, 2005 regular meeting, representatives of a group <br />of Orange County residents addressed the Board and submitted a 1200 - signature petition to <br />the Board regarding the method by which the members of the Board of Commissioners are <br />elected in Orange County. The representatives requested that the Board review the current <br />method of election for the members of the Board, which entails all five members of the Board <br />being nominated and elected to staggered four -year terms on an at -large basis, The <br />