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SUMMARY 1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ORANGE COUNTY WATER SUMMIT <br /> MAY 16, 2002 <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners met on May 16, 2002 at 4:00 p.m. at the Southern <br /> Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina for a water summit. <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioner Moses Carey <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Margaret W. Brown, Alice M. Gordon and Stephen Halkiotis <br /> COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: S. Sean Borhanian <br /> COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. <br /> Blythe (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br /> NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT AGENDA <br /> FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br /> NOTE: THIS WAS NOT AN OFFICIAL MEETING SINCE ONLY 2 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> ATTENDED. THIS VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT WILL BE PLACED IN THE PERMANENT <br /> AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. <br /> 1. INTRODUCTION <br /> A. Opening Remarks <br /> Chair Jacobs made opening remarks. Welcome. We are pleased to have so many people that <br /> we wanted to have here today at this water summit, which is hosted by the Orange County Commissioners. <br /> Commissioner Moses Carey is sitting over here by the window. Commissioners Margaret Brown, Alice <br /> Gordon, and Steve Halkiotis will probably be here by and by. We will take time, so that everybody who is <br /> sitting up here can introduce himself or herself. I will be glad to recognize other people who are here. If you <br /> are representing one of the water providers, and you would like to come sit up here, there is still room. So <br /> please feel free. <br /> My name is Barry Jacobs, I am also one of the Orange County Commissioners. We are pleased <br /> to host this water summit. We wanted to start off with a little comment from Ambrose Pierce to set the tone, <br /> and it's a definition of neighbor. "A neighbor is one whom we are commanded to love as ourselves and who <br /> does all he knows how to make us disobedient." We are all neighbors, but if we do not communicate, then <br /> we develop misunderstandings. Sometimes personalities get in the way. Sometimes we simply do not <br /> recognize that we have common interests. So what we really are all about is trying to get beyond the frictions <br /> and divisions. We assume that the water providers who are here today are here out of a sense of self- <br /> interest. Self-interest is good in this setting. What we want to do is talk about the issues that brought us to <br /> come to the conclusion that it would be a good idea to have this water summit and to have these players in <br /> the same place at the same time. We are proud in Orange County of how long we have been committed to <br /> protecting watersheds, water supplies. We, in fact, in discussing this meeting, we protect the water for all of <br /> the municipalities and for Orange-Alamance. Everybody who is here, we help protect your water, because <br /> we protect the watersheds. We are not a water provider. Obviously, we cannot keep on doing things the way <br /> that we have been doing them over the course of the years. As growth takes place, it changes some of the <br /> equations, it bumps us against one another, and it starts to affect the resources that we have. We are <br /> obviously also in a difficult financial climate, more difficult for some than for others, but difficult for all of us. <br /> That may not go away. That may make.us look at things a little bit differently. And we are also in a changed <br /> climate period, whether it is temporary or not. We went to capacity use in the Eno River system two and a <br /> half months before we normally do because of drought conditions. We are working on an update of our <br /> comprehensive land use plan. We first did it 20 years ago. Obviously it has been amended many times <br /> since. But we are trying to incorporate a lot of the thinking that has changed and also trying to incorporate <br /> the plans of those who have a participatory role in how Orange County grows. <br /> When we talk about learning the challenges and concerns of the water providers, we think it would <br /> be useful to have some common understanding of what we are each doing, a common language, and a <br /> common sense of at least understanding. Before we can even talk about collaboration or cooperation, we. <br />
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