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APPROVED 08117!04 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />MAY 4, 2004 <br />7:30 p.m. <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 <br />at 7:30 p.m. in the F. Gordon Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs, Commissioner Margaret <br />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 />There was a replacement resolution (yellow) far item 6-d and a replacement for item 5-c <br />{blue}. <br />John Link said that they have the proposed new request for County positions that is part <br />of the Manager's recommended budget for the May 5t" work session. <br />PUBLIC CHARGE <br />The Chair dispensed with the reading of the public charge. <br />2. Public Comments <br />a. Matters not an the Printed Agenda <br />James Ward is a resident of Chapel Hill and the commander of General W. W. <br />Kirkland Camp Sons of Confederate Veterans in Chapel Hill. He said that they have come with <br />a proposed resolution, naming the month of May as Confederate History Money in Orange <br />County. He read the resolution, as follows: <br />Proclamation of Confederate History Month <br />Whereas, an May 20, 1861, the State of North Carolina seceded from the Federal Union and <br />became part of the Confederate States of America. <br />Whereas, at least 2000 men from Orange County fought far the Confederacy and a quarter of <br />these died in defense of their homes. <br />