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MINUTES ' ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD ANA ORANGE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SPECIAL MEETING MAY 15, 1989 The Orange County Board of Commissioners, the Orange County Planning Board and the Orange County Economic Development Commission met in joint session on Monday, May 15, 1989 at 6:00 p.m. in the Superior Courtroom, new Courthouse, Hillsborough, NC, for the purpose of holding discussion on the airport site criteria and other related issues. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chairman Moses Carey, Jr., Commissioners John Hartwell, Steve Halkiotis and Shirley Marshall. COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Don Willhoit ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION MEMBERS PRESENT: Shirley Reynolds, Guido DeMaere, John Gastineau, Jim Gibson, Pat Davis, and Chairman John McKee. FLANKING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Jean Hamilton, Dan Eddleman, Steve Yuhasz, Virginia Boland, Betty Eidnier, Carol Cantrell, Chris Best, Mike Lewis, Chairman Barry Jacobs, and Pegge Abrams. STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John Link, Assistant County Manager Albeit Kittrell, Clerk to the Board Beverly Blythe, Aeputy Clerk to the Board Kathy Baker, Director, Economic Development Commission Sylvia Price, Purchasing Director Pam Jones, Planning Director Marvin Collins, and Planners Eddie Kirk and Emily Crudup. Chairman Carey opened the meeting at 6:00 p.m. and had the Statement of Purpose for the proposed airport distributed to the audience. He stated that the Statement of Purpose was meant to clarify some of the reasons that the Board of Commissioners is pursuing the planning of an airport project. He indicated that the airport has been perceived as a means to an end that are in the goals and objectives for the County. This process has been started to provide the Board with information so that decisions may be made at each step along the way. The selection of a site does not mean that there will be an airport in Orange County. The first point in the process for making that decision has not yet been made. This meeting is to gather more data and to give the Planning Board and the Economic Development Commission (EDC) an opportunity to raise any questions they may have. The first item of business is to ask the consultants to review the revised criteria far those who may not be familiar with them, and to apply those criteria to the six sites that remain on the list. He also mentioned that the purpose of the meeting was for discussion between the Economic Development Commission, the Planning Board and the Board of Commissioners. The items will be discussed in a way so that the citizens present will hear the questions and the answers that are given. If at the end of the discussion the Commissioners feel that they have enough information to narrow the sites down, they will attempt to do so. The consultants were asked at this point to review the criteria that has been revised by the Commissioners and applied to the six sites.