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l6 <br />APPRQVED 4/•15/200.8 MINUTES <br />ORANGE GOtJNTY BOARD'OF COMMISSIONERS. <br />REGULAR' MEETING' <br />February 19, 2008 <br />7;30 p.m. <br />The Qrange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, February 19; <br />2ijp8 at: 7:30 p.m. in the F, Gordon Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioners Moses <br />Carey; Jr.; Valerie P. Foushee, Alice M, Gordon,, aril Mike Nelson <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT; <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS. PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />COUNTY STAFF RRESENT: Assistant County Managers 1Nillie Best and Gwen Harvey; <br />'COUNTY STAFF ABSENT: County Manager Laura Blackmon <br />~, Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br />Chair Jacobs said that Commissioner Nelson was ill, but was going to try and make the <br />meeting. <br />The yellow sheet was an additional resolution; item 3-d, Resolution for a Regional Ualue- <br />Added Shared .Use Food and Agricultural Processing Center. Chair Jacobs said that this <br />should probably go onthe consent agenda as.item 4-p. The Board agreed to leave if as a: <br />resolution, item 3-d. <br />The pinksheet relates to the. item on :the farmers' market. <br />The light green sheets were for revised applicants for the Hillsborough Board of <br />Adjustment. <br />There were several handouts regarding the citizen survey on tax proposals for locale <br />revenue options. <br />Chair Jacobs reviewed the water supply levels: <br />Chair Jacobs suggested pulling item.10-d, Appointments for Durham Technical <br />Community College, and adding it to the March 6th agenda. <br />Commissioner Gordon asked to also defer the. Qrange County Planning Board <br />appointments because the County is still advertising. for this. Chair Jacobs said thafthere are <br />plenty of applications for at-large. The Cheeks Township position could be deferred. <br />Discussion ensued and the Board agreed to. leave this item on the agenda until that <br />point in the agenda. ` <br />Geof Gledhill read a prepared statement with respect to-a settlement and claim; "At one <br />of your late 2007 meetings, during a closed session, the Board of County Commissioners- <br />approved the settlement of a .claim relating to the installation of a well on property owned by Mr. <br />Michael Todd Goo.per. The .claim resulted from the formal abandonment of a well serving Mr. <br />Cooper's house. after the house was destroyed by fire: As part of the rebuilding of Mr. Cooper's <br />house a mistake was made and Mr. Cooper was advised that his new home was eligible to be <br />connected to the new public. water system built to serve the Buckhorn EDD; thus. he abandoned <br />his old well. Orange County contributed $2,566, :approximately half of the cost, of a new: well <br />