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1 <br /> APPROVED 3/19/2019 <br /> MINUTES <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> REGULAR MEETING <br /> March 7, 2019 <br /> 7:00 p.m. <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Thursday, March 7, <br /> 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Whitted Human Services Center in Hillsborough, N.C. <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Penny Rich and Commissioners <br /> Jamezetta Bedford, Mark Dorosin, Sally Greene, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, and Renee <br /> Price <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br /> COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br /> COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: Deputy County Manager Travis Myren and Clerk to the Board <br /> Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br /> Chair Rich called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. <br /> 1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br /> Chair Rich said the Planning Commission asked if Item 11c could be deferred. She <br /> noted the following items at the Commissioners' places: <br /> - PowerPoint for Items 4b and 5a <br /> Commissioner Price requested to move Item 8-f up to Item 4-a. <br /> The Board agreed by consensus. <br /> PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> Chair Rich acknowledged the public charge. <br /> Arts Moment <br /> Orange County Arts Commission (OCAC) Advisory Board Member Chris Kubica <br /> introduced Steven Petrow: <br /> Steven Petrow is an award-winning journalist and book author who is best known for his <br /> Washington Post and New York Times essays on civility and manners, aging and cancer. He <br /> was recently named as an opinion columnist for the USA TODAY Network. His work has been <br /> published in TIME, The Atlantic, Salon, the Daily Beast, the Los Angeles Times and The <br /> Advocate. You're likely to hear Petrow when you turn on NPR's "All Things Considered <br /> Weekend," or one of your favorite (or least favorite) TV networks (MSNBC, PBS, CBS, Fox and <br /> CNN). Petrow is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including those from the National <br /> Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution, the Ucross Foundation, the Virginia <br /> Center for the Creative Arts and the National Press Foundation. In 2017, he became the named <br /> sponsor of the Petrow LGBTQ Fellowship at the VCCA, a prize that is awarded annually. <br /> Petrow, with three degrees from Duke University and the University of California, Berkeley, lives <br /> in Hillsborough, N.C. <br /> He read "Three Ways to Practice Civility," a condensed version of a TED talk that he gave <br /> in New York in January 2019. <br />