Minutes-06-06-2023-Business Meeting Con'd

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58 it is an appropriate use of the space. He said that he is also concerned about the environment. He said he wants a complimentary relationship with Orange County Schools. He said they put forth a budget of$2 million in needed facility repairs. He said what happens when there is a public bond needed for new schools or facilities. He said that growth is occurring and SAPFO is a controlled measurement tool, that gives them control He said that every other data source says that there will be substantial growth in the community. He said that he has been in this for 15 years. He said that 100% of his experience has been with low-income kids of color. He said if you are black or brown in Orange County, you have a 1 in 4 chance of being proficient in high school. He said that if you are disabled, you have a 1 in 10 chance. He said he wants those kids in his school. He said that he has built every logistical legal restriction to his school to make sure that happens. He said he wants a school with a weighted lottery, bussing, and lunches. He said he will bring it. He said they need a new option. Jim Ray said if you add another 1,400 people it will add 1,000 trips and Lawrence Road cannot stand it. He said it cannot stand what is has now. He said they need to be very careful with runoff if it is approved because they have a pond that is filling up now. He said he does not know what he is going to do with that now. He said he is from the golf course, and it is downhill from the project. He said that there is a man promising the county $400,000 for turn lanes and two of the lanes would be on property that the golf course owns so he would like to see $800,000 for the lanes. He said that you could solve a lot of these problems if they go back to Brady Road and build a bypass. Cheryl Howard said that in her community, the corner of Washington Street and Adams Place, there is already a problem making a left turn. She said the proposed entrance of the project would be very close to that corner and possibly break off any opportunity to have any way out of the neighborhood except to make a right-hand turn. She said that if you look at the long-term plan for 1-85, the other exit from the neighborhood might not be there. She said that HYAA does need fields. She said the tennis people need something. She said that this impacts her ability to get out of her neighborhood and that a lawyer at one of the first meetings told her that she would just need to figure it out on her own. She said that does not feel like looking out for the community. She said she has been there for 40 years and that she is emotional about this because she is a retiree and so are a lot of her neighbors. She said a lot of the neighbors are also Hispanic and did not understand the letter. She asked them to vote no at this point because there are things that need to be considered. A motion was made by Commissioner Fowler, seconded by Commissioner Hamilton, to close the public hearing. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Chair Bedford said that the BOCC Rules of Procedure call for the Board to end meetings by 10:30 p.m. and it was past that time. She said that the Board did not have time to deliberate. She suggested that the Board recess the meeting and pick a time in the future to continue the meeting. John Roberts said that there was one item from earlier in the meeting that needed to be revisited. He said that item 8-s was not correctly voted on and said the Board should revisit that before the meeting is recessed. Chair Bedford asked why they needed to revisit item 8-s. John Roberts explained that the language in the abstract was not the correct wording for what was needed. He said the Board needed to reconsider the item and approve it with different language.