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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 26, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 9 - - P <br />SUBJECT: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau <br />DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): Under Separate Cover <br />Membership Roster <br />Letters of Recommendation <br />Application(s)/Resume(s) of Person(s) <br />Being Recommended <br />Interest List <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Clerk's Office, ext. 2130, 2125, 2126, 2129 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 245-2130 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />PURPOSE: To consider one reappointment and two new appointments to the Chapel <br />Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau.. <br />BACKGROUND: Mr. Creston Woods and Mr. Lawrence Walters are serving in the two <br />positions allotted to the Orange County Lodging Association on the Visitors Bureau. <br />Mr. Walters' first term expired on December 31, 2003. He has expressed interest in being <br />reappointed and is eligible. His new term would expire December 31, 2006. <br />Mr. Woods' second term also expired on December 31, 2003. The O.C. Lodging Association <br />has recommended Mr. Mark Sherburne, General Manager of the Siena Hotel, Chapel Hill, as <br />Mr. Woods' replacement. This would be a three-year term to expire December 31, 2006. <br />Additionally, Ms. Edith Wiggins, Chapel Hill Town Council Member, has been nominated to <br />serve as the Town Council representative on the Visitors Bureau. This term is a three-year term <br />which will expire on December 31, 2006. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: None. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): Consider appointments to the Visitors Bureau as the Board may <br />decide.