Minutes 10-03-2022 Business Meeting

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2 and road beds. She said it reminded her an initiative had been started as a collaboration between the county and power companies to better manage road beds so native flowers would be able to thrive. She said turns out that the Board of Commissioners passed a resolution right before COVID to ask for work to be done on this. She said it got started but was a casualty of COVID. She said the Board authorized the Commission for the Environment and county staff to work with the botanical garden to encourage the NC Department of Transportation, utility companies, and property owners to plan implement and study such road bed and rights of way management practices. She petitioned the Board to formally reinstate this process and work. Commissioner Bedford said she had no comments. Commissioner Fowler said she had no comments. Commissioner Richards said petitioned county staff to further research universal pre- K. She said the county is working on the long term strategic facilities plan and believes this would be good information to have. She said staff could report back on how long they would need for this research, but that she would like it to be a part of the Board's strategic plan and the facilities plan. Commissioner McKee said he would like to second Commissioner Richards's petition, and had no further comments. Chair Price said she would like to put a third on that petition because it is something the Board has talked about before. She said as the Board gets into the actual strategic planning, some of the items that Commissioner Greene and Commissioner Richards mentioned that drift away and are brought back up can become part of the plan so there is constant work on them. She said she had a meeting this morning with the town mayors over breakfast with the point of continuing to work together and collaborate. She said she took a tour of Perry Place last week which is the affordable housing complex that straddles both Carrboro and Chapel Hill. She said CASA manages this development, and it is moving along well. She said residents should be able to move in by the end of December or beginning of January. 4. Proclamations/ Resolutions/ Special Presentations a. Fire Prevention Week Proclamation The Board considered the approval of a proclamation designating the week of October 9 through 15, 2022 as Fire Prevention Week in Orange County. BACKGROUND: Fire Prevention Week is celebrating its 1001" year, the longest running health campaign, to honor the brave firefighters and first responders who risk their lives to protect us every day and reaffirm the importance of fire safety and preparedness. Fire Prevention Week was started by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) in 1922 to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Fire Prevention Week teaches children and adults how to stay safe in the event of a fire. In 1925, President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the first National Fire Prevention Week to occur from October 4 through October 10, 1925. President Coolidge stated that, "This waste results from the conditions which justify a sense of shame and horror; for the greater part of it could and ought to be prevented... It is highly desirable that every effort be made to reform the conditions which have made possible so vast a destruction of the national wealth". The Great Chicago Fire burned from October 8 to October 10, 1871, with most of the damage occurring on October 9th. The fire caused roughly $200 million in damages, killing approximately 300 people, and destroying over 17,000 buildings and structures. The