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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: November 7, 2024 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-k <br /> SUBJECT: Resolution Naming the 203 Greensboro Project as the Drakeford Library <br /> Complex <br /> DEPARTMENT: Asset Management Services <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1.) Resolution Alan Dorman, Asset Management <br /> 2.) Rendering of New Name Services Director, 919-245-2627 <br /> PURPOSE: To approve a resolution naming the 203 Greensboro Project as the "Drakeford <br /> Library Complex". <br /> BACKGROUND: In 2017, Orange County and the Town of Carrboro entered into a development <br /> agreement to jointly design and construct a facility that would house administrative offices for the <br /> Town of Carrboro and the Orange County Southern Branch Library. At the initiation of the project, <br /> the building was temporarily named the 203 Greensboro Project, based on the street name of the <br /> building site. The facility is under construction and is expected to open this winter. <br /> At the November 23, 2023 Board of Commissioners` Business meeting, Board Vice-Chair Sally <br /> Greene and Commissioner Anna Richards volunteered to serve on a joint committee with <br /> representatives from the Town of Carrboro to develop a proposed official name for the building. <br /> The committee membership included Town of Carrboro Council Members Catherine Fray and <br /> Eliazar Posada, and Alex Brown and Nerys Levy from the Friends of the Library. <br /> The committee decided to seek public input on possible facility names by conducting on online <br /> survey between May 29 and June 14, 2024, receiving almost 200 responses. Considering the <br /> responses to the online survey as well as other information gathered, the committee approved <br /> recommending the name "Drakeford Library Complex". The name honors Dr. Robert Wayne <br /> Drakeford, PHd, who served as the first black Mayor of the Town of Carrboro from 1977 through <br /> 1983. <br /> At the October 15, 2024 Board of Commissioners' Business meeting, the Board received a <br /> recommendation from the County Manager and agreed to consider, at this November 7, 2024 <br /> Business meeting, a resolution (Attachment 1) approving the name of the 203 Greensboro Project <br /> as the "Drakeford Library Complex". Attachment 2 shows a rendering of the front of the building <br /> with the name "Drakeford Library Complex" mounted near the front entrance. <br />