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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 17, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 3 <br />SUBJECT: Review of Initial Draft Mapping and Associated Materials Related to Possible <br />District Elections for the Board of Commissioners <br />DEPARTMENT: County Attorney, Planning, <br />County Commissioners & <br />County Manager <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) Preamble <br />2) Draft Principles <br />3) Draft Process/Timetable <br />4) Five Initial Draft Maps with Base <br />Census Data <br />5) 2002 & 2004 General Election Results <br />for BOCC <br />6) Maps Showing Districts for NC House <br />Seats <br />7) School Districts Map <br />8) Elections Precincts Map <br />(ATTACHMENTS PREVIOUSLY <br />PROVIDED ON MAY 5, AUGUST 24, AND <br />August 31, 2005 - Not Included here) <br />1) Excerpt from May 5, 2005 Work <br />Session Minutes <br />2) Definition of a Resident Information <br />3) County Commissioner Partisan Election <br />Provisions <br />4) NC Counties Population /Concentration <br />Comparison with Orange County <br />5) Minutes from Five Meetings of the 1993 <br />Task Force on the Process of Electing <br />County Commissioners <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) ro-] <br />6) Multimember or Unusual County <br />Commissioner Election Systems <br />7) Super Districts - Artie Franklin Letter to <br />Chapel Hill Herald Editor <br />8) Three Counties Methods of Election <br />Follow -up <br />9) Options for Electing County <br />Commissioners by Residential Districts <br />from Chair Carey <br />10)May 2005 Staff Report on the Structure <br />of Boards of County Commissioners <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Moses Carey, ,Jr., Chair <br />Geof Gledhill, County Attorney, 732 -2196 <br />Greg Wilder, 245 -2300 <br />David Hunt, 245 -2130 <br />John Link, 245 -2300 <br />Brian Carson, 245 -2595 <br />Craig Benedict, 245 -2592 <br />PURPOSE: To review and discuss initial draft mapping and other associated materials related <br />to possible District Elections for the Board of Commissioners, <br />BACKGROUND: At the Board's January 24, 2005 regular meeting, representatives of a group <br />of Orange County residents addressed the Board and submitted a 1200- signature petition to <br />