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Approved 11.1.2023 48 AGENDA ITEM 5: PUBLIC CHARGE 49 50 INTRODUCTION TO THE PUBLIC CHARGE 51 The Board of County Commissioners, under the authority of North Carolina General Statute, appoints the 52 Orange County Planning Board (OCPB) to uphold the written land development law of the County. The 53 general purpose of OCPB is to guide and accomplish coordinated and harmonious development. OCPB shall 54 do so in a manner, which considers the present and future needs of its citizens and businesses through 55 efficient and responsive process that contributes to and promotes the health,safety,and welfare of the overall 56 County. The OCPB will make every effort to uphold a vision of responsive governance and quality public 57 services during our deliberations, decisions, and recommendations. 58 59 60 PUBLIC CHARGE 61 The Planning Board pledges to the citizens of Orange County its respect. The Board asks its citizens to 62 conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner, both with the Board and with fellow citizens. At any 63 time, should any member of the Board or any citizen fail to observe this public charge, the Chair will ask the 64 offending member to leave the meeting until that individual regains personal control. Should decorum fail to 65 be restored,the Chair will recess the meeting until such time that a genuine commitment to this public charge 66 is observed. 67 68 69 AGENDA ITEM 6: CHAIR COMMENTS 70 There were none 71 72 AGENDA ITEM 7: PLANNING BOARD RULES OF PROCEDURE—To make a recommendation to the BOCC on 73 potential amendments to the Planning Board's Rules of Procedure. 74 75 Perdita Holtz: This topic was discussed in a work session type setting back in the June meeting and at 76 that time we talked about concluding the planning board meetings at 10:00 p.m., allocating 30 minutes for 77 the applicant to present their application to the Board, clarifying that planning board members should hold 78 their questions during the applicant's allotted presentation so that it doesn't go into the applicant's 79 30-minute time, and to allocate 3 minutes per person per agenda item when members of the public are 80 speaking. During the review of the rules and procedures document I found another item that needed to be 81 modified, and that is to reflect the new meeting location, which is here. So, in the document, the full 82 document is included but on Page 28 and 29 of the packets is where you'll find the proposed changes. It 83 did take a little bit of time to get through attorney review. Our staff attorney did have some concerns and 84 questions and a little bit of the language was modified from what we had submitted to him but what the 85 planning board talked about in June is encompassed in these rules and procedures. So, the 86 recommendation for tonight is to recommend approval of the rules and procedures document and, upon a 87 positive recommendation, it will go to the Board of County Commissioners for final approval because the 88 Board of County Commissioners approves all Advisory Board rules and procedures, not just the planning 89 Board. If this all happens tonight, it's scheduled for September 5th for a county commission meeting. So, 90 with that I am open to questions or if somebody wants to make a motion. 91 92 Statler Gilfillen: I have a question. Let's say that we can anticipate the meeting might run 15 minutes 93 longer and one of the members up here wants to acknowledge that and supersede this, but it should 94 require a vote from the Board here. 95