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APPROVED 4/5/2011 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS HILLSBOROUGH BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS JOINT MEETING February 24, 2011 7:00 p.m. The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a Joint Meeting with the Town of Hillsborough Commissioners on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in the Link Government Services Center, in Hillsborough, North Carolina. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Bernadette Pelissier and Commissioners Valerie P. Foushee, Alice Gordon, Pam Hemminger, Barry Jacobs, Earl McKee, and Steve Yuhasz COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Frank Clifton, Assistant County Manager Gwen Harvey, and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker (All other staff inembers will be identified appropriately below) HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Mayor Tom Stevens and Commissioners Brian Lowen, Michael Gering and Evelyn Lloyd and Eric Hallman HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Frances Dancy HILLSBOROUGH STAFF PRESENT: Town Manager Eric Peterson Welcome and Openinq Remarks (Chair Pelissier and Mayor Stevens) Chair Pelissier thanked everyone for coming. She said that this is an opportunity for both boards to share common interests and ideas. Mayor Tom Stevens said that he had a conversation with Commissioner Hemminger last night and one of the items they discussed at TJCOG was performance measures for local governments. He distributed a handout and said that the Town's intention is embodied in this balance scorecard and he said there are 16 objectives that they want to accomplish in the community. He said that Hillsborough this year won an award for its accounting performance. He said that the new wastewater treatment plant has commanded the attention for the last year. He said that a penny on the tax rate only raises $60,000. Almost half of the budget and a third of the employees are with the police department and there has been a change in leadership this year. There are only 13 %2 people that do the general administration activities for the Town. The UDO has been foremost in the work plan. The Nash Street project has also been a priority. Other projects have revolved around economic development. He said that the elephant in the room is the judicial parking. He said that it has been acknowledged that this will not be discussed tonight. He said that he thought that the meeting between him, Mayor Pro tem, and the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Board of County Commissioners was very productive yesterday. Chair Pelissier agreed that there has been some progress made in the meetings regarding the issue of parking. Commissioner Gordon arrived at 7:16 PM. Introductions were made.