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D70 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS JANUARY 16, 1979 The Board of County Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, January 16, 1979, at 7:30 p.m., in the Superior Court Room, of the Orange County Courthouse, in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Members present: Commissioners Richard Whitted, Norman Walker, Norman Gustavesan, Don Willhoit and Anne Barnes. Commissioner Whitted opened the meeting by asking if any Baard member .wished to add additional items to the agenda. The following items were .added to the agenda: Agenda Item 6: Developmental Disabilities Proposal Agenda Item 7: Announcements Agenda Item 8: Executive Session Agenda Item 2: Matters of Public Concern Commissioner Walker moved to drop the experimental policy of allowing the public 15 minutes at the beginning of each Board meeting to address the Board. Commissioner Whitted ruled the motion out of order. Mr. C. W. Davis, Mr. Tony Saber, Mrs. Josephine Barbour and Mr. Ben Lloyd spoke in opposition to the Board's experimental procedure of hearing items of public concern only during the first 15 minutes of each meeting. An unidentified individual asked when the public could address the Board. An unidentified individual asked who initiated the new policy on matters of public concern. An unidentified individual asked how the agenda was distributed and spoke against the Board's new policy of hearing items of public concern. An unidentified individual asked persons wishing to discuss personal matters to do so outside the meeting. Mr. Edwin Caldwell, of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Baard, spoke in favor of the Board's new experimental policy on hearing items of public concern. Commissioner Barnes assured the audience this .was an experimental policy which the Board hoped would expedite the meetings and allow the public a set time at every meeting to address the Board on any item of public concern.