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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 14, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~ -~ <br />SUBJECT: Resolution to Form an Intensive Livestock Operations Study Committee <br />DEPARTMENT: Health PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): IlVFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Resolution Rosemary Summers, ext 2411 <br />Orange County Animal Agriculture Barry Jacobs <br />Facts and Trends TELEPHONE NUMBERS: - <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968501 <br />Durham fi88-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To form a committee to study Intensive Livestock Operations for Orange County. <br />BACKGROUND: At the Board of Health's work session on September 24, 1999, staff prepared <br />a background document with information on health and environmental effects of intensive <br />livestock operations around the state. Several other county departments were invited to attend <br />the work session to participate in this discussion as well. Melva Okun of the UNC <br />Environmental Resource Center addressed the Board of Health and summarized the direction <br />that other localities in the state had taken. <br />At the Board's next regular meeting on October 28, 1999, it voted to appoint a committee to <br />further study the issues surrounding the possible development of intensive livestock operations <br />in Orange County. The committee was charged with making recommendations to the Board of <br />Health in the spring of 2000. It was the Board's recommendation to include other relevant <br />stakeholders in fully examining this issue. The accompanying resolution specifies the <br />organizations or groups that will be involved in studying this issue. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: None <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board adopt the resolution. <br />C:\My Documen[s\Resolutions\RES-[LO.Adg.ABSTRACT-dot <br />