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9 <br />1 McDougle Elementary School PTA - Lisa Bobst <br />2 (Kevin Locke & Hobey Ford Performances) <br />3 McDougle Middle School PTA - Lisa Bobst <br />4 (Phillip Shabazz Poetry Residency) <br />5 North Carolina Arts in Action - Lisa Van Deman <br />6 (Residencies for 4th & 5th Graders at Rashkis & Frank Porter Graham) <br />7 North Carolina Symphony - Not Available Tonight <br />8 (Educational Concerts for Orange County Students) <br />9 Orange County Artists Guild Not Available Tonight <br />10 (Video Clips to Publicize Annual Studio Tour) <br />11 Partnership Academy Alternative School - Susan Marshall & Paige Marsh <br />12 (Teaching Artist Residency) <br />13 PlayMakers Repertory Company - Stacy Payne <br />14 (General Operating Support for Entire Season) <br />15 Residential Services, Inc. - Jocasta Britt <br />16 (Summer Art Class) <br />17 <br />18 b. Recognition of Visitors Bureau Awards <br />19 The Board considered recognizing the Orange County Visitors Bureau for being <br />20 awarded six travel and tourism awards by industry colleagues across the region at the annual <br />21 North Carolina tourism conference held this summer. <br />22 Economic Development Director Brad Broadwell said that he was representing Laurie <br />23 Paolicelli for the Orange County Visitor's Bureau. He recognized the OCVB staff including <br />24 Linda Ekeland, Patty Griffin, Dale Chodorow, Tina Fuller, and Susan Rice. <br />25 The Chapel Hill-Orange County Visitor's Bureau received the top award at the <br />26 Destination Marketing Association of North Carolina Annual Meeting. In the summer, OCVB <br />27 received six awards -one platinum, four gold, and one of the Innovation Destination Marketing <br />28 awards. There were 150 entries, and 44 Destination Marketing organizations that comprise the <br />29 association. The Visitor's Guide won a platinum award, the annual report won a gold award, <br />30 the eNewsletter was honored, the leisure travel ad won a gold award, the sales department's <br />31 60,000 Fans meeting planners promotion won a gold award, and the bureau received one of <br />32 the three Innovation Awards given in the "Best Local Stakeholder Relations" category for the <br />33 1,000 Postcards promotion. <br />34 Chair Jacobs congratulated them on behalf of the Board of County Commissioners. <br />35 <br />36 c. Alamance County/ Orange County Boundary Line Update <br />37 The Board received historical information on the issue of the Alamance/Orange County <br />38 Boundary Line and a status report on boundary issues and strategies and discussed the <br />39 timeframe for a possible public hearing. <br />40 Assistant County Manager Willie Best said that this issue started in 1996 where prior <br />41 attempts were made to find the original line and were unsuccessful. The reason that Orange <br />42 County is trying to locate the original line is to prevent development that is now occurring on the <br />43 Orange County/Alamance County line and people do not know which county they live in. This <br />44 has created a lot of issues with large developments. There have been a couple of meetings on <br />