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8 Geof Gledhill said that the University has offered to extend the lease for Chapel Hill. Commissioner Jacobs said that this is a good idea, but this is an example of where he has a problem with how the County does a budget. He is going to vote not to do it this fiscal year. He is endorsing it in principle. He thinks it would save trouble to wait until the new building is ready. He suggested putting the $82,000 towards childcare or Medicaid, which the legislature just proposed to cut drastically. Chair Carey asked if it would be less expensive to wait until the new building is ready to move. Gayle Wilson estimated that it would save about $20-25,000 to not use the interim buildings. John Link said that he would like this to be voted upon unanimously, and to wait three weeks to see how this fits into the entire budget process. Chair Carey suggested a vote in principle. A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Halkiotis to adopt this change in principle and increase the salaries of the staff to make them permanent, full-time. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Commissioner Jacobs made reference to the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday issue and said that there are times when someone has a particular workday that is significant to them, then they can arrange the schedule so that someone else works. This came up on the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. He asked Elaine Holmes to work on this so that people can trade hours so that there is no religious, philosophical, or cultural conflict. This usually comes up with EMS, the Sheriffs office, and Solid Waste. Public Works Director Wilbert McAdoo said that they do that now in Public Works. Gayle Wilson said that he is not aware of this being a problem, but he assured the County Commissioners that if there is a hint about someone wanting off for a particular holiday that they feel strongly about, then he will accommodate them. Elaine Holmes will follow up on this. Commissioner Halkiotis asked about the convenience centers being closed on Wednesdays and asked about the impact of having them be open on Wednesdays. 4. Legal Advertisement for May 23, 2005 Quarterly Public Hearing Planning Director Craig Benedict said that this item was on Tuesday night's agenda, and there was some clarification requested by the County Commissioners. The only public hearing item that is being scheduled for the May 23`d QPH is the Orange County Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance. This will be meeting a legal requirement. The non-public hearing item is regarding the Rural Enterprises Project, and the ad will indicate that it is for discussion purposes only and not a change in zoning. The purpose of the Rural Enterprises Project is to diversify the farm economy and provide some options in the rural areas of the County for people to move past the typical farm uses to provide more income. The majority of the changes to the advertisement is on the gray sheet and has to do with the Orange County Land Use Element Update and the Zoning Text Amendments. Attachment 1 shows that this will be a discussion item on what the land use plan is and some of the growth issues. The advertisement will just mention the six options. Commissioner Gordon said that since the County Commissioners just got this information tonight, she and Craig Benedict worked out some wording on the Rural Enterprises Project. She read the language, which was added to the first paragraph as follows: "The uses proposed range from small-scale farm operations and agri-tourism to larger scale agricultural processing facilities, such as canneries and meat packaging." For the third paragraph, the second sentence will read, "The full scale agenda package for this item is part of the agenda