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APPROVED 06/08/2004 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />APRIL 13, 2004 <br />7:30 p.m. <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 <br />at 7:30 p.m. in the F. Gordon Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs, and Commissioners <br />Margaret Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M. Gordon, and Stephen Halkiotis <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill and S. Sean Borhanian <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County <br />Managers Rod Visser and Gwen Harvey and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker (All other staff <br />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. ALL RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING WILL BE <br />KEPT FOR 5 YEARS. <br />1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br />Chair Jacobs said that he is suggesting that they suspend the bylaws for board <br />procedures tonight for an experiment by moving the consent agenda from item 8 to item 5. If <br />this proves suitable, then they can come back with changes to the bylaws. <br />Commissioner Halkiotis asked who came up with this new process and John Link said <br />that staff came up with this idea of streamlining this process. Sometimes there are members of <br />the public that want to speak to a consent item, and this would keep them from waiting so long. <br />Commissioner Halkiotis said that this was one of the most courageous, bureaucratic <br />moves he has seen. He commended the staff. <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 />John Robinson distributed some photographs. He spoke about junk cars that are <br />within athree-mile radius on Mill Creek Road. There are over 100 junk cars in this area. He <br />said that these cars are not listed on the tax records. He gave a copy of the hand out to <br />Planning. He made reference to streets and said that the Department of Transportation gave <br />him a document of what they were supposed to da to his streets. He met with DOT officials in <br />Raleigh and he was there when money was given to pave these streets before they were even <br />approved. Now DOT is telling him that they are going to do these streets at the minimum <br />standards, which means that they would be scraped and packed. He asked what happened to <br />the $40,500. The second thing that he found out when he asked about the law governing for <br />100°Io of the people to sign to have a road taken over was that he could not find the law in <br />