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1 <br /> APPROVED 4/7/2009 <br /> MINUTES <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> REGULAR MEETING <br /> February 17, 2009 <br /> 7:30 p.m. <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, <br /> February 17, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, NC. <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Valerie P. Foushee, and Commissioners <br /> Alice M. Gordon, Barry Jacobs, Pam Hemminger, Mike Nelson, Bernadette Pelissier, and <br /> Steve Yuhasz <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br /> COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br /> COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Laura Blackmon, Assistant County <br /> Managers Willie Best and Gwen Harvey, and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker (All other <br /> staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br /> NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br /> AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br /> 1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br /> The magenta sheet was for item 4-m, Resolution Honoring Central High School. Item <br /> 4-b has been revised and is now 4-b-2, Orange-Person-Chatham Area Programs Board— <br /> Reappointments. The canary colored sheet refers to item 6-c, Federal Stimulus Package. <br /> There was also an updated BOCC Meeting Calendar. <br /> Clerk to the Board Donna Baker said that the differences are related to the closed <br /> sessions added this week. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs suggested considering 6-e, Alamance County/Orange County <br /> Boundary Line NCGS Survey, up on the decision items list because this item has been <br /> deferred before. He asked that it be made item 6-c and all agreed. <br /> PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> The Chair dispensed with the reading of the public charge. <br /> 2. Public Comments <br /> a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda <br /> Richard Ellington lives in Chapel Hill and has been a lifelong resident of Orange <br /> County. He said that his family connections go back to 1752 and he is concerned about the <br /> preservation of history of Orange County. He said that Orange County does not get enough <br /> good press about its history and that the beginning of the nation began in Orange County and <br /> the Battle of the Regulators. This was the first farm conflict in Colonial United States. He said <br /> that the real end of the Civil War ended in Durham at Bennett Place, which used to be in <br /> Orange County. His biggest concern is that Orange County is not protecting its heritage, <br />