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26 Draft 1 our opening remarks, as you all are aware, North Carolina law requires quasi-judicial 2 decisions be based on competent material and substantial evidence in the record tending to 3 demonstrate that all of the review criteria have been met. We intend to present evidence to 4 you all this evening showing that all those criteria are met. North Carolina law also says that 5 where an applicant meets their burden of production, that is the, their burden to produce 6 competent material and substantial evidence tending to demonstrate that all of the applicable 7 review criteria have been met. They've made a prima fascia case, they're entitled to their 8 permit unless competent material and substantial evidence to the contrary is presented. In 9 which case, and only in that case does the burden fall on the Board to kind of weigh one 10 expert's evidence or testimony versus the other expert's testimony or evidence and to 11 determine whose testimony is more credible. Before we get into our witness testimony, 1 12 have, I mentioned, I provided, and hopefully you all have the supplemental materials that we 13 provided earlier today in PDF format. I have a selection of those in paper format that I'd like 14 to also hand out. I think it'll help as we move through our three witnesses today. 15 16 Leon Meyers: And without objection, that's fine with me. I don't think we received anything today. 17 18 Beth Bronson: Let me be clear. We did not receive your PowerPoint today, we did not have a copy of that. 19 You were, this is for the presentation. 20 21 Kevin Hornik: Sure. Well, again, I have a selection. We can also walk through; I think Taylor mentioned 22 that she has the supplemental materials loaded on here. So, I can walk through those to the 23 extent that there are questions that those might those materials which are not included in the 24 paper format to cut down on the volume of paper I'll be handing out to you all might address. 25 So, we've got a copy here. And everybody be careful. There are these were just a little bit 26 too thick for our regular stapler, but not thick enough for a big industrial stapler. So please be 27 careful with the staples here. 28 29 Leon Meyers: Thank you. 30 31 Kevin Hornik: All right. So, for as our first witness, I'd like to call Dr. Nora Dennis to testify about a little bit 32 of the background and how the facility operates, and we'll try to keep this quick. I think a lot 33 of this you've already heard at this point this, so we'd like to incorporate all the testimony that 34 you heard during the discussion on standing into the presentation and evidence, so to speak 35 here. All right. So, Nora, can you please state your name for the Board? 36 37 Nora Dennis: My name is Nora Dennis. 38 39 Kevin Hornik: And can you tell the Board a little bit about your professional background and education and 40 experience? 41 42 Nora Dennis: Sure. Well, I grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. My dad actually grew up maybe a mile 43 and a half,2 miles from where our farm is now. And I went to the School of Science and Math, 44 and then I got a Morehead Scholarship to UNC Chapel Hill, and I went to college at UNC. 1 45 chose UNC because I love this place. I went to medical school at Duke. I was an ana line H 46 Duke scholar there, and I completed my residency in psychiatry at Duke, where I was a chief 47 resident. I subsequently joined the faculty at Duke in 2014 where I took care of psychiatric 48 patients, both in Duke Hospital and also at the VA Medical Center because they've always 49 had a commitment to community mental health and taking care of people who didn't have 50 other choices. I then joined Monarch, which is a statewide community behavioral health 26