Board of Commissioners · Regular Meeting · April 24, 2023

Will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Of what under God.

Are there any agenda adjustments. Hearing none we will move on to announcements and we'll ask a clerk on a quality announcements good evening I will read the announcements that are in our agenda this evening Durham County Department of Public Health covid-19 vaccine hours walk-ins are available for all vaccination doses on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 A.M to 4 P.M they are closed 12 to 1 pm and they're also closed Tuesday Thursdays and the weekends for additional information and updates you can visit. Www.decopublichealth.org backslash covet vaccines Durham local re-entry Council resource Fair April is Second Chance month in the Durham local re-entry Council will hold a resource fair at the Criminal Justice Resource Center located at 326 East Main Street on Wednesday April 26th from 1 30 to 4 30 PM you can come out meet and hear from and about employers Health Wellness providers housing providers Supportive Services food bank and also voting rights Durham dementia Community event come out on Saturday April 29th to the Durham dementia Community event from 10 a.m to.

2 p.m at the Durham County Human Services building located at 414 East Main Street the keynote address will be from Jay reinstein who is living well with early onset dementia the event is free and lunch is being served you must register by calling. 984-287-9399 or there is a link that you can click to register online Carolina Flyers home opener on April 29th the Carolina Flyers Ultimate Frisbee team hosts hosts its home opener against the DC breeze on Saturday April 29th at the Durham County Memorial Stadium gates open at 5 pm and the game starts at 6 p.m tickets are 12 for adults and free for children 12 and under tickets can also be purchased online and there is a link for that site Briggs Avenue Community Gardens Spring plant sale join the Durham County Cooperative Extension Master Gardener volunteers at the Briggs Avenue community garden annual spring plant sale on Saturday April 29th from 10 a.m to 2 p.m at 1598 South Briggs Avenue they'll be selling a variety of tomatoes.

Cucumbers squash eggplant peppers hot and sweet herbs okra and a variety of fruits as well as flowers there is free parking alongside the road or in the parking lot across the street and all proceeds go directly to the community garden for additional information you can contact Gabriel Vines at 919-560-0526 there's also an email g-v-i-v-e-s at dcomc.gov annual Pond clinic on May the 6th the Durham and Orange County Soil and Water Conservation districts are holding their annual Pond clinic on Saturday May 6 from 9 A.M to 1 p.m at the Cornwallis Farm joined to learn all about pond maintenance and construction Wildlife Management Fish Production and Aquatic weeds you are asked to bring your identification there's also will be a shock about demonstration at the conclusion of the clinic you have to register by April 29th by calling Durham County Soil and Water at 919-560-0558 or the Orange County Soil and Water 919-245-2450 lunch will be provided for all participants and lastly Durham Pre-K applications for 2023 through 24 is now open having.

Applied for pre-k yet the Durham Pre-K application for 2023 24 school years open and it can be found at Durham pre-k.org all children in Durham County who will turn four years old on or by August 31st are eligible please visit the website you mentioned or call 1-833. -773-5338 for additional information that concludes the announcements published in our agenda thank you Miss Wallace for reading those for us under as she has stated they are all on the website but no no one remembers them from just reading them but always you can always find them on our website other announcements commissioners I have a few but go ahead thank you madam chair well first thing I want to do is to welcome our new DSS director who's here with us tonight and I'm putting you on the spot Maggie if you don't mind just standing up for a minute so people know who you are or just want to welcome Maggie and if I will try and and say her name probably the way it and you.

Will can correct me Maggie svet teach nian okay svet teach nian and Maggie started with us last week so this is the beginning of her second week so just I was thrilled to see her walk in the door and I'm really putting on the spot right now Maggie but if you if you don't mind just coming up to the mic a minute and just since you're here and I know you're you're living in downtown Durham and just give me a minute to say hello that's all sure thank you everyone I'm very honored and proud to have this position I told Miss Jacobs last week in our board meeting I have never moved to a city and I've moved around a lot as a child that I fell in love with so instantly so my husband and I we both live downtown and I love it we went to the farmers market for the first time this Saturday and I'm just truly honored to be a part of this community and I.

Look forward to working with all of you to make sure that our families are served safely and with respect and compassion so thank you you you welcome thank you so much Maggie I also just wanted to share and I will give get this information to our clerk but we had gotten an email that May 9th is fentanyl Awareness Day and there are a number of free events that people can participate on which are the speaker series that are virtual and I just think this is such an important issue unfortunately fentanyl has really is just been becoming increasingly a crisis in our community because it's just getting mixed into so many different substances and really putting people at risk and we've seen our fatal overdoses in Durham actually rise and it's not just it and it's you know people who it's mixed into their heroin it's mixed into all different types of drugs that frankly people have been taking for for a long long time and and and actually I just found.

Out last night that A co-worker of my brother-in-law is a young very young woman died from you know at a party having you know a substance and she didn't know that it was mixed in so I just want to raise that issue I think it's something we can all really learn more about and I looking forward to the day when we're all carrying around Narcan with us so that we can just be prepared to help anybody in need and and the last thing I just want to share is that we a number of us were able to celebrate the ribbon cutting of the Family Justice Center which is opening their doors tomorrow it's a great partnership with the city and the county and many other partners and the address for the Family Justice Center is 101 East Morgan Street it's meant to be a One-Stop shop for people in our community who are facing Family Violence domestic violence sexual violence human trafficking and a general phone number is 919 403-9562 thank you.

Afternoon everyone I just want to throw out there for those of you all who don't know y'all know I'm a reader it's Library week so we have about 40 events going on at the library there's one that's really neat that's going on right now but from the 20 off from the 24th through the 29th you know they're going to be a bunch of events at all of our libraries all over Durham from my interviews to puppet shows to cooking classes to sewing I think sometimes we don't think about all the fun stuff that we can do at our library so there are a lot of events the culmination even though it won't actually be the 24th it'll be the 28th is an event called all booked up and as corny as it sounds it's not about books it's a dance and you get to dress up so if you all have always wanted to I don't know dress up in the library and get two drink tickets for it this Friday.

Is your chance so it took us 75 dollars they're gonna have the 3D printers out there's going to be multi-sensory events going up so again if you would like to have a psychedelic experience in the library your ship has come in so please go to Durham County Library dot org slash libraryfest and take out your families to to at least explore the beautiful libraries that I can say that these women along with myself have been investing in very heavily pre during and post covet and just see some of the great work that's been done and see how we have preserved our books went across the country a lot of libraries were not able to do that in covet so if you have some time this week there are 40 events please go out and support our local libraries thank you.

Okay all right thank you a couple of things that I want to bring up one of them is if the board hasn't happened had an opportunity to visit haytai reborn Justice Center the one that we supported it's an awesome awesome opportunity and and just to see the work that they're getting done and they're working with individuals in our community that have not had jobs before that have not had places to live and one of a one of the young men shared with me that he's gotten three certifications since he's been there three certifications from Durham Tech so and people are they're coming in and getting their certifications so that they can get jobs and they're just doing some incredible work there I'm really really proud of us supporting this board supporting the work they're doing it's in the mutual building on Mutual building yeah on 50 Chapel Hill Street don't have.

They have not had that grand opening yet they will let us know when the grand opening is but I didn't wait for the grand opening I just wanted to see it and I'm glad I did the other thing I just want to mention was the black maternal Health conference that we went to in Greensboro was pretty incredible to be able to see people from different areas not just Durham Durham people were there Greensboro from all across around the state to really talk about what they are doing in their communities the initiatives that they're doing and you know it's always great to hear what other areas are doing to see if it's something else that we can add to what we're already doing and so it was great to be there and then tonight I just wanted to lift up and appreciate our governor Troy Cooper that did a proclamation and I'm not going to read it but just want to mention that he did one as well and I know the manager.

Put money in our newsletter so the governor did want to acknowledge it as well and the other thing that I want to bring up is this is a an event that's coming up it's the Durham County District Attorney's Office the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law School and the religious Coalition for non-violent Durham is presenting a special theater just us performance and it's going to be this is in collaboration with fair and Justice prosecution it's going to be let's see I'm looking for the date here.

In our email but it is Sarah Willett from Communications is from the Durham County District Attorney's Office anybody's interested in that and I will pass it to a clerk and maybe she can put it on their website for us the other thing Commissioners the we had a proclamation from School Board javania and I think commissioner Burns worked on this and what I would like to know is it is it complete with all the Commissioners or is there more to be added it has been completed there was one addition a statistical Edition that was made by commissioner Jacobs which we did submit and we needed to make sure that we could get it on the completed copy for the city so we resubmitted it with the change to Diana and the mayor and they have since made the update so as of right now yes ma'am it is complete so does it go on a work session agenda they javania now that Diana has added the new submission is complete for us.

And we can send it out and it as long as we have it in during May so it doesn't necessarily have to be the work session based on the last email I got from Giovanni all right thank you all right if there's nothing else was it anything for you we'll move on down to our minutes so we have minutes for the April 3rd work session were there any edits any corrections that we need not I'll ask for a motion to approve move to approve the April 3rd work session minute second it's been moved and properly second all in favor hi motion approved five to zero.

We have our ceremonial items the board is requested Proclaim April 30th 23 as National therapeutic animal day in Durham County and I've asked commissioner Jacobs if she would read the proclamation then as Ellen Ellen yes she's here member of the visit volunteer of the therapeutic animal team to accept and share of human words. You're import of Board of County Commissioners Proclamation National therapy animal day 2023. Whereas there are thousands of pet partners therapy animal teams serving in communities across the United States and whereas pet partners has designated April 30th as a national therapy animal day and whereas pet partners therapy animal teams in Durham play an essential role in improving human health and well-being through the human animal Bond and whereas pet partners therapy animal teams make millions of visits per year in settings such as hospitals nursing homes schools and hospice and whereas pet partners therapy animal teams interact with a variety of people in our community including veterans seniors patients students facing literacy challenges and those approaching end of life.

And whereas these exceptional exceptional therapy animals who partner with their human companions bring comfort and healing to those in need now therefore be it resolved I Brenda Howerton chair and on behalf of the Durham Board of Board of County Commissioners do hereby Proclaim April 30th 2023 as National therapy animal day in Durham County North Carolina this 24th day of April 2023.

I have my partner Vivo here with me she's a little upset because this is actually dinner time and so she has gone back in her carrier in protest however I do want to thank you for this Proclamation and for recognizing the these animals my partners are in the minority being cats it's primarily dogs we have but we also have miniature horses and a number of small pets such as rabbits that go and visit my cats alone have been to school our Public Schools they have been to Bible School in the summertime they have been to nursing homes they have spent time with dementia patients we have been to rehab centers dog walks and all over Durham and it has been such a privilege for me to be able to do that people will ask me about what it's like volunteering I have gained much much more than I could ever have given by sharing my pets and I want to thank you for recognizing these animals that are willing to go out.

Meet strangers allow them to touch them pet them and cuddle with them thank you very much thank you anything from commissioners. Commissioner Carter yes thank you so much for reaching out to us and and asking for this Proclamation it's such a happy Proclamation isn't it there's something that you said about animals and how they they must cause us to release oxytocin or something right and feel all warm and Kinder they help humans get in touch with our better self probably oh I know when I was on the school board I went to our elementary schools a couple of different times when when therapy dogs were present and the teachers would just say that the children were always more focused and even the teachers were you know in a better mood it would just it just helped to settle people I guess and like I said get us in touch with our better Angels so thank you for your volunteer work and thanks for coming tonight and I don't blame your partner.

For being you know holed up in her cage during dinner it wasn't very civilized office was it during this time but thank you so much commission alone commissioner Carter spoke so well I want to I just like yeah the therapy and support that animals provide us it's really amazing that these small and big creatures if you have many horses of just being so pure to be able to spend that time with him when I was at an undergrad I'm sure other folks when they were in college we would have the puppies come or like people would bring their therapy dogs to the Brickyard at NC State during exam time and I would always try to hide away from campus but when I heard that the dogs were coming to town I would show up on campus to be able to just have that stress relief and it's just so vital and especially for our kids who a lot of times when kids are going through therapy and aren't comfortable talking to adults.

Or other humans but an animal provides them with support of a place where they feel safe so thank you to all the work that you do and for volunteering all of your hats and pets and thank you Vivo for all of the work that you do providing me Comfort before this meeting started my mind is really quick I was going to offer your your partner Wendy's chips but I want to give the dog pancreatitis because I can't pay for that bill I know how high that bill is but I did want to just throw out for everybody the ecosystem that surrounds therapy therapy animals right I can think you know everybody is not religious so when my sister was in the hospital when we you know at do you know a lot of times they want to send a priest around my family's open to that they want to send a pastor around my family's open to that you know they want to send an animal around my family but.

Every family is not always open to the past of the priest but for a kid that's going through chemo a kid that is going through dialysis you know come and throw a tarp over that kid because it was a tarp it's a Saint Bernard back and it's pretty big dog I was actually surprised that that's what the hospital had and when I inquired about well where do you get these animals from there was this was years ago so it's probably 20 years ago there was a camp I think in Chatham County and that was where they had young girls who were actually in trouble had been suspended were in a camp but they were the ones who groomed the dogs who trained the dogs and so what we have now were kids who were just as involved who had a part in bringing these animals up so it calmed them down and then where does this animal go next to a hospital so there's a whole ecosystem not just.

Around the therapy they provide but even the fact that we're able to calm kids down that have been in trouble and like hey help get this dog ready or this animal ready so they can go somewhere else so I do want us to think about there's a lot of other things that go along with this process and there are kids being helped at every level in the training of these animals and and I really appreciate it so keep doing what you're doing Jacobs thank you so much and I'm glad I did get to meet Vevo and she's absolutely stunning before the meeting and it was just it was even just fun to have an animal here in our chamber and and just to I just want to thank you and everyone in the community who is part of the pet partners therapy animal teams for you know serving our community in this way we we know that animals really do enrich our lives and help heal us and provide so.

Much unconditional love for us humans so thank you so much so again thank you for being here and we appreciate all the work that you do so this is this is good work thanks again okay Commissioners Madam too yeah really really quick I know that we're past announcements but I just can't help bragging on some folks so two people got some designations this weekend can I give a quick shout out to our new master clerk Monica and our new designated clerk Maceo congratulations also also our clerk was also recently voted on I want to make sure I'm saying it right the board North Carolina Board of Clerks make sure get me right.

It's the North Carolina Association of County clerks and I was appointed to be on the board of directors thank you. So let congratulations to both of you that's that's quite a coup for for Durham so thank you for the hard work that you've done already and the hard work that you're going to do go going forward. All right Commissioners we are down to our consent agenda items are there any items that you want to pull to have more discussion around. From 23-0130 down to it 230300.

There's just one I would like to pull I just want to have commissioner Carter say something about 230277 I'll I'll pull them just a second yeah I'm gonna pull that one for a minute. I I didn't want to necessarily pull but I wanted to give either the county manager or the deputy County Manager a chance just to make highlight that there are a number of items related to the arpa funding and just you know just to make sure the public is aware of there are a number of related items to that so that was just one request as long as the recommendations from the child of the two pigtail task force reports thank you why don't we go ahead and approve them and then have manager commissioner Burns I can hold my comment till right after I it was a congratulation so I can hold mine until we approve it I don't want to put lessons all right then if I can get a motion to approve all of the consent agenda items except for.

230277 so moved improperly second.

To approve the consent agenda except for 230277. All in favor aye. Consent agenda is approved five to zero. So commissioner Carter I would just wanted you to say a little something about the child community child protection team is I'd like to make a few comments about yes thank you so much I actually was going to ask if it pleased the board if I might just say a few words about this item without having to wait to the end of the meeting so thank you so much for suggesting it Madam chair so I am the commissioner appointed to the community child.

Teams and they meet obviously every other month and there are a number of our own service providers that attend these meetings as well as members from across the community Jim Groves is a member that's always attends Public Health I see Rod Jenkins over there javetta Whitfield is a big leader from DSS on this these teams Christy milot is a community volunteer and has chaired these teams for at least six years I think every year I've been on there she's been the chair and she works incredibly hard and they're members from Durham public schools from the medical examiner's office just enough you know a number of people who are assigned to these teams by Statute actually there's a similar team that exists at the state level this is the local team they have reviewed over 40 child fatalities for for this the 2022 year as well as a number of cases of child neglect and abuse and the purpose of these meetings is to try to identify deficiencies in the system that are.

Making children less safe and less protected and then to make recommendations to US policy recommendations investment recommendations things that we can do to help keep our children protected and safe and I I did want to mention this report because it's it's very thorough it's very structured and well organized and includes some excellent recommendations at the end that I think are very doable and I was hoping that rather than just approving on consent that we would not necessarily I don't think we can do it tonight discuss the actual recommendations but that we could perhaps ask our Administration our manager to work with us in order to provide an actual response to the team because one thing they requested in particular is funding a very minimal amount of funding it was about thirteen thousand dollars I think is really all for an expanded and stronger safe sleep Outreach education and campaign because a number of infants across the state Durham's not unique in this but in Durham as well die for no other reason then they're.

Really not sleeping in what is now known to be the the most safe sleep conditions you know there are cultural things many parents want to go sleep with their children they're tired they think it you know maybe an easier way to keep them comforted in bed but we now know that babies will will sometimes die if they are you know up against a mattress or up against another human body or wrapped in a blanket you know unintentionally and these are very preventable you know deaths and we have so many challenges that we face in this community that we really they feel intractable like how would we ever solve these systemic challenges this is one that there really are steps we can take and they've identified some in this report for us and I hope that we will consider you know consider all of their recommendations but in particular this one about the safety campaign and the budget that they the very high level budget but they they did it they did.

Mention some Associated costs and strategies so I thought perhaps we could have an official response some. Commissioner Carter thank you and thank you for serving on this committee this is a tough committee to serve on and I know because I know I've been asked to serve a couple of times and it's too close to tragedies that have happened in my personal life edit I didn't think that I would I would be useful in serving in it on this committee so I just want to say thank you for doing this work and maybe at some point we could bring it back to maybe would it be too long to bring it to a work session and we can talk about the recommendations is how would you like for us to go about the recommendations because I'd love for us to do some of the things and going through the recommendations I'd love for us to do some some of those well I think at the very least if the board is open.

To considering the recommendations we could ask our Administration to also review them and come back to us with what they think make the most sense knowing that we are very supportive of them and in particular this one around all the rec all the records associated. It's fine for me Mr Jacob yes I I just really want to thank anyone who is a part of the task force and I know Maggie you will be joining as the DSs rep because they this committee always brings forward the most memorable really some recommendations and I just want to Echo what commissioner Carter said I think now is the perfect time as we start going to the budget if there's anything that we can address in the coming budget related to safe safe sleep recommendations I also want to just say it ties into the sports priority around maternal and infant Health it does it really it really is connected and in reading this report there's a lot in here that we're already starting.

To do that we can integrate into existing County programs whether it's in Cooperative Extension Public Health DSS Lincoln but the other thing I'd wanted to highlight is the recommendations around gun safety and gun violence which actually are we already heard from public Health's gun safety team and completely aligns with what they recommended and and we did ask for that to be considered in the upcoming budget so I I to me as you said commissioner Carter this is very doable preventable and it's also very much in line with so much of what we're doing in Durham County government so thank you.

Commission Alum and commissioner Burns mine would it it's almost auxiliary with something that commissioner Jacob said so I'll say it quick because it's less than 60 seconds I know that staff is about to go over the armpit Investments but I just wanted to say thanks for whoever brought forth the one on Child Care it wasn't until you may mention Madam chair about going over to Hayti reborn Justice movement I had a chance they invited me a couple of weeks ago and I got a chance to go and she's correct like so many people have gotten certifications so many people have gotten work but one of the things that we have I don't know if y'all some of you all were not here when we had carried to speak from Casey to speak from made in Durham and the Bulls initiative one of the things that she pointed out was that 44 of our graduates were people who were expecting or who were about to expect so what you have you know mothers know that.

They now are about to have a walking talking reason to make sure that they have a job and have somewhere to stay so while I was at hey Tire Reborn one of the issues that they have popping up is women have vouchers but they don't have a place to put them they don't have a daycare to send up Pre-K application is open now and you know you got to do this at the fall of the year so whoever brought forth this one just a big huge shout out thank you because it's exactly what the community needs and I'm excited and I'm happy to vote for these types of initiatives on our consent agenda and so again back to something commissioner Carter I and commissioner commissioner Howard have pointed out like we have really got to invest in child care make our companies do it make the apartments that are coming here doing it so that when folks do get these certifications when they do get these jobs they don't have to choose.

Between taking a job and having a place for their kid to go so I'm just excited about the 800 000 and that was all okay sir there's nothing else I'll call for motion to approve 230278. 7-7 okay I'm looking at so moved zero two seven seven so moved second it's been moved to properly second all in favor aye items approved five to zero. So I'm gonna go and go ahead I know that you want to talk about all the items but let's let's do that go to the public hearing and then we'll so 220289 we have a public hearing ordinance to amend the Durham unified development ordinance provision regulating open space utility and solid waste collection facilities and screening require pet waste reciprocal the board is requested to adopt an ordinance amending the Durham unified development ordinance standards in sections open space section 7.

2 Unity and solid waste collection facilities section 7.6 and screening section 9.7 to include requirements to pet waste reciprocals to have and we have Jessica from the planning manager here to discuss these items good evening I'm Jessica Dockery a planning manager with the city County Planning Department before I begin I'd like to State for the record that all planning department hearing items have been advertised and noticed accordance with state and local laws and affidavits of all notices are on file in the planning this evening I'm presenting information about a proposed United unified development ordinance text Amendment case tc22406.

Which was initiated by staff from several City departments working on the implementation of a total maximum daily load or tmdls response plan completed in 2019. This was heard by the jccpc at their February 1st 2023 meeting and by the Planning Commission at their March 14 2023 meeting with a unanimous recommendation it was also unanimously approved by the city council after April 17 2023 meeting with a May 1st effect date as development continues in Durham runoff from impervious surfaces washes pollutants such as pet waste which causes bacterial contamination from fecal coliform bacteria and sediment which causes turbidity into water bodies these pollutants end up in drinking water supply so tmdls have been established to ensure safe levels when tmdls are exceeded plans to reduce those are necessary Durham County bodies of water of particular concern are Northeast Creek and the third Fork Creek Northeast Creek is impaired due to excessive fecal coliform bacteria from the digestive systems of war and blood warm-blooded animals including pets third Fort Creek is impaired by high.

Levels of turbidity caused primarily by erosion in streams and due to Earth moving activities the city of Durham completed tmdl response plan in 2019 that focuses specifically on TM deals and third fork and Northeast Creeks however tmdls affect the many water bodies throughout the county the proposed requirements for pet waste receptacles will assist with implementation of the Northeast Creek Watershed reported too far hold on Watershed Improvement plan efforts to address fecal coliform bacteria which also protect other watersheds from similar bacterial contamination primary sections of the unified development ordinance that will be affected by this text Amendment are article 7 and 9 article 7 includes design standards for open space and residential developments as well as standards for utility and solid waste collection facilities in all developments these standards will be revised to require pet waste receptacles at the trail heads of all Greenways and trails for new development the solid waste collection facility section in this article will be the most significantly altered to require pet waste receptacles to be installed.

Installed in residential developments in an effort to lower the amount of fecal coliform bacteria in runoff article 9 includes standards for landscaping and buffering including screening requirements for solid waste collection facilities pet waste receptacles will be exempt from this screening requirement the most extensive changes to the text were included in your packet if there are the main change will be pet waste receptacles will need to be placed on Homeowner Association owned land in open space areas at least two receptacles shall be provided for developments with 90 or fewer dwelling units and for developments with 91 or more units at least three shall be provided the receptacles will be maintained and emptied by the HOA per open space maintenance agreements established in the HOA agreements which must be recorded for site plan approval staff is available if you have any questions thank you questions from commissioners Jacobs thank you I know this came through the Joint City County planning committee and I I've strongly support it especially just for Environmental water.

Quality protection reasons and I know this is kind of the reality of this is is obviously the enforcement part is literally impossible so I'm just I'm assuming the reason why there isn't anything about enforcement is just because it's just not enforceable I just wanted to hear that because you know somebody has to actually clean it out and empty it and you know and then the other thing I was wondering about was how you decided on the number like one per not you know up to 90 but then more than 93 well but if you have like you know 500 units so yeah just kind of just more about the thought process related to this so kind of the reason that these are supposed to be in the HOA owned land is like with other open space facilities playgrounds Parks things like that the HOA is required to have in their documents that create the HOA a mechanism for taking care of those the maintenance is on them and that's why these are placed there.

And this would be included in that maintenance so if they do not maintain them on their own then that falls into they're not maintaining per their required guidelines and there's some enforcement allowed that way the number is because conversely we're not sure how well they will maintain them and so we don't want to have five or six out there and then the HOAs are not actually making them and then that would cause more trouble and be more confident concentrated areas of waste piled up so the hope is that we have at least a minimum number of them out there and the residents ask for more and HOA puts them involuntarily that's helpful and then in terms of the trail heads I guess who who are we who are we assuming is going to clean those so if they are in a subdivision again it would be an HOA organization that would be part of their open space requirement and their maintenance if it's a city Greenway or a county Greenway or some sort of government.

Maintained Greenway or Trail than they would be responsible and would this also apply to like the state park I don't think we thought that far but they we would have to see how that works I'm thinking of Eno River State Park I I live right across from the Eno River State Park and it drives me nuts like I mean yesterday I was taking a walk people will actually put their pet waste into a plastic bag and then just drop the plastic bag along the trail I think like come and get it based on me seeing usually that's what I see so that's my suggestions I see those bags but then they're gone the next time yeah I unfortunately a lot of them don't I think get picked up by the ranger so you know but anyway it's just it's interesting people will I mean it's great that they get put into the plastic bag but then sometimes the next the rest of it doesn't happen but I'm just curious because you know it's just obviously.

There's pros and cons so and this is not retroactive so this is only for development going forward so some parks already in place will not be required to put these in same for any subdivisions that do not have these in place would not be a requirement except for new development so if we had a new state park we would have to see how that applies okay but we don't have to worry about that probably for a while okay all right so what's the penalty for the HOA that does not maintain we I believe that would fall under our typical zoning compliance enforcement say that again zoning compliance enforcement so there could be a notice of violation and they would have to come into compliance that's part of the reason that we get those HOA agreements as part of the site plan so in other words it'll be in the HOA bylaws going forward any new development has to have those for our approval of a site plan to construct a new development.

So they should be included in there so if an h0a requested that is not a new one they cannot participate if previously approved site plan or site plan but development wanted to put them in they certainly could but it wouldn't be a requirement or approval of a development going forward Sarah wants to tell you more good evening commissioner Sarah Young with the planning department I want to offer just a little bit of kind of anecdotal information I've lived in a couple of neighborhoods with HOAs that had these and I think that mostly there's self-policing because when you think about a trash can that's full of these baggies Neighbors start to complain if they don't get cleaned out frequently enough so I I totally understand the concern but I think that before it ever got to a zoning Enforcement issue I think the neighbors and the HOA would sort that out amongst themselves I know that certainly was the case in places where I've lived but what I've seen is like.

When they have the neighborhood yard I've seen that when they have the neighborhood yard maintenance team that comes out and mows the communal areas and the parks they also are the ones emptying it out so it's like in their contract I live in an HOA I have an HOA and I am I frequently send emails to my management team so that's why you know I'm I'm curious is I want my HOA to be diligent and make sure they do within those they're supposed to do yeah well Sarah I have the fun question I mean I I did ask doing that jccp see me and I was in there and I supported along with my colleagues we said we were going to come up with a fun slogan for it I mean did yeah yeah you're throwing your head back because you remember we said we wanted a slogan for this I see no slogan in here so who was asleep at the wheel if you go to the Outreach page the.

Community engagement Outreach page there is a sign that says do your duty ladies and gentlemen oh you know along with enforcement we have some creative people and I think we left that on the table but yes okay so do your duty there will be stickers popping up in a new development so it won't just be a trash can people will know what this trash can is for thank you you all of major money this evening thank you very much okay I will open the public hearing and acknowledge any of those that signed up are there anyone is there anyone on Zoom we do not have any citizens that have signed up nor are there any Citizens online thank you then I will close the public hearing and bring this back to the board Commissioners are there any additional questions Madam chair I just want to point out the obvious that this is also coupled to our own ordinance right that requires that pet waste be picked up County ordinance party that.

Doing that now the HOA will be making it easier let them fly that ultimate word should and if the attorney can tell you legal the legal is is should and must there are two different words for Hope thank you okay so Commissioners I will now entertain a motion we have two motions one is to adopt an ordinance amending the unified development ordinance standards in sections open space session 7.2 utility and solid waste collection facilities section 7.6 and screenings section 9.7 include requirements for pettway's reciprocal so moved second so it's been moved and properly second all in favor hi hi motion passes five to zero and then we have a second motion to adopt the approach appropriate consistency statement as required for ncgs 160d-605.

So move second all in favor aye aye. Now we are at 2209.0290 public hearing zoning map change leetsville storage the board is requested to conduct a public hearing and receive public comments on the zoning map change Leesville storage z220037. And we have Alexander is already at the senior planning manager to discuss this item he's at the podium evening planning department there we go happy to be here with y'all tonight so we received an application from Warren Mitchell of Leesville storage Partners who proposes the change of zoning designation of two Parcels of land totaling around 22 acres and located at the 4600 block of Leesville Road the current zoning is commercial General with a development plan and residential rural the existing development plan limits the use to RV and Boat Storage the applicant proposes to change these designations to commercial General with a development plan to facilitate the construction of a self-storage business as a reminder development plans allow the applicant to make commitments in excess of the ordinance requirements.

The stream on the western portion of the site will have the required 100 foot intermittent stream buffer the applicant is proposing tree preservation at 10.3 percent which is on a requirement of 10 so it exceeds it and the project boundary buffers will meet the ordinance requirements and range in distance and opacity from 10 to 50 feet depending on the boundary the Planning Commission did recommend approval by a vote of 12-1 at the March 14 2023 meeting as a reminder there are two motions this evening before you that will need to be voted on the first is to adopt the zoning ordinance and the second is to adopt a consistency statement thank you so much for your time this evening I don't have any fun slogans for this but the staff and the applicant are available to answer any questions thank you thank you questions commissioners commissioner alum I have a question regarding since this is in County limits and on any limits is the first storage units is this going to.

Be like an indoor storage unit that typically those are like air conditioning so then they also need like water and is there going to be enough well water access for a facility this large of a 22 Acres if they're going to use the full size that's a great question I will let the applicants speak to the design of what they're proposing to do but in terms of well and septic yes they are not proposing to Annex into the city limits and the current capacity is able to serve this proposed development okay.

This was there Jacob yeah I just well I guess maybe the applicant when the applicant can respond to the question commissioner Alam I asked also there was a social pinpoint message from a Community member about whether you know it was going to be a facility that was open at night I guess concerned about new ways lights because I do want to note that the land use adjacent to the property is residential and so I guess I just want I had a few questions one is I know that the applicant has proffered to do like what they're calling a footpath and is that kind of like a shared multi-use path that is kind of completely separate from the road traffic what what I mean I looked on the development plan but I saw a 10-foot path or could you explain a little bit more about what that is yes so the 10 foot shared path is along the full Frontage of the site along theseville Road this is the new standard that ncdot city transportation and.

Bpac have decided as the best path forward so a shared use path is for pedestrians cyclists and any sort of non-motorized wheeled vehicles so it is separated from the cars it is that litter it is not in the road it's protected or separate there is not a requirement that it's protected but that is something that would be great okay I'm still not clear is this separate removed from the road is there any separation because I know from the mpo our 2050 plan I mean we we have we've asked that there be some type of a path it's multi-use or bike and pedestrian but it is physically separate from the Cars you know whether it's grass or something but it is separate yes Sarah Young again good evening that's correct so multi-use paths are typically separated by at least a grassy or landscape strip there they do have the potential to you know do some other things in that strip plant it more or if you know conditions really warrant some additional safety.

Measures they can but typically it is just a distance separation it is not within the roadway bed like you would see for instance a shared bike lane so when we talk about a shared multi-use path it is physically separate it is not contiguous with the roadway that Vehicles drive and what is this that's in this development plan shared multi-use pack okay so it is going to be separate from the traffic okay that's what I just want to get clarity on okay and will it be open all night I believe those are questions for the applicant my understanding is it would be a 24-hour access but I'm not positive in a minute I just have one other question about the buffers I noticed that some of the buffers are you know 30 feet with 0.6 opacity but then somewhere as little as 10 feet with like 0.2 could you explain the why there is that type of variation and yeah I just had concern about that absolutely so the interactive buffer model.

Is I don't know if you've ever seen it but it there's a lot to it and it's based on the use for the adjacent uses for the site so we have residential Rural and Commercial General on different sides of the site and whether an existing use exists there or not determines what that buffer will be and what the opacity will be and so that's why you'll see a range from 0.2 and 10 feet to 0.8 and 50 feet any of the buffers will have to fire follow the landscape manual and those vegetative plantings okay I'll have some further questions about that for that thank you any other questions to ask.

Hearing none I will open the public hearing and I know that there is we have one person signed up Neil gauche you will podium. Good evening chair Harrison and members of the board of Board of County Commissioners my name is Neil gauche I am an attorney with the Morningstar Law Group at 700 West Main Street here in Durham and I'm representing the applicant for the project tonight I'll just point out first that the proposed use is in the public interest as known in staff report because it provides a non-residential use adjacent to a rapidly growing residential area and in close proximity to Highway 70. the other thing to point out in the development plan the access point is planned well north of the intersection of Leesville and 70 which makes it safer than the current access by moving that that access point further away from 70 where all the traffic is the plan also on the development plan includes stub out connections right-of-way dedication and multi-use path improvements which will.

Which will result in better connectivity at the site as was noted also by staff additional tree preservation is committed to and maybe a subtle component of the development plan there is a stream it is protected and there is no stream Crossing so with this zoning no stream Crossing would be allowed in the future either unless the property was rezoned also again the the site is appropriate for the intended use given its proximity to 70 which is a commercial Corridor as you know and as far as we know there is there has not been any neighborhood or significant neighborhood pushback and in fact we have heard of some support from the neighborhood now to answer some of the questions that I heard earlier the site would be on well and septic it's planned with essentially one bathroom kind of for the office so there's not a huge demand on well and septic they will be indoor air-conditioned units but that does not require any kind of water utility for that and oh the hours of operation.

Generally speaking that's going to be 6 to 11. And at some points in the I guess I would say the Boating season there may be some some need to access the site kind of after hours for just to bring boats in for storage I mean that'd be limited again to you know that can happen but but the hours of operation will be six to eleven and I I think commissioner Jacobs did you have more questions about the multi-use path or something yeah I just wanted to confirm that it was separate from the road bed physically separate yes so the the vehicular travel way will be separated from this shared multi-use path I Believe by grass shrip and so you know they won't be well they won't be together they won't be paved together I guess is the way I would put it I think that answers your question right yes and I'm just wondering because you know storage facilities can look all different ways there are some that are attractive.

And are nice landscaped and then there's some that are not and I do I do want to note that this is you know entrance to you know a lot of residential development and it is you know on just you know I guess you know that was some of my concern about the Landscaping sure so I mean I think it's one aspect of it's not Landscaping technically yeah riparian buffer right so the stream is protected all of those trees are remain there so there will be a significant amount of tree stand on the property then you've had you have the required buffers around the project boundary buffers I guess and and those are being implemented on the site consistent with the Udo requirements for that I mean I wouldn't know how else to respond to that other than to say that this is intended to be you know an indoor storage facility you know with air conditioning units so those are the ones that I would say they tend to look more like Office Buildings.

Although I don't think anyone would mistake it for an office building but they live more like that than a bunch of garage roll up doors however this said well adjacent to the site also includes the boat storage which is which is a I mean those are kind of limited in number as far as how many storage facilities are for boats this will be one of them and that's outdoor. And so where is the boat facility it's adjacent it's directly adjacent and it's already approved if I remember.

Madam chairwoman and County Commissioners good evening thank you for allowing me Anthony speak my name is Warren Mitchell I live at 104 Amber wood run and Chapel Hill I'm here tonight with my business partner David Durham we came to you about three years ago the first parcel on on Leesville Road and you approved it for boat and RV that at that time it was a smaller the parcels larger but the area was up front and at the time we did not have plans for an office so we did not have any well or septic at that time during the site plan process of the dot did not want a full driveway access because it was closer to 270 and at the same time we got to know the the the owner of the property next door the one further away from 70. he it was not he was not living there it was just a rental house so it worked out that we were able to acquire that parcel and and move this.

Our our main our only driveway away from at least from the highway 70. Gets it away from the turn lanes and the stacking at that time we were widening leesfield for a bike lane so this is a Improvement because it adds the multi-use upgrade Trail we currently well I did a you mentioned the the scope or the quality of storage so I've done a very high-end facility in Chapel Hill it was a multi-story and then David and I currently owned one in Apex which is boats and RV and also Self Storage none of the units face the highway they're all internal so there are a few outside units but they're internal to the site not facing the road do we plan to do the same thing on Leesville the hours like us like nil said was are six to eleven but occasionally if folks are expecting to leave early in the morning and going on a vacation we give them access but there's never we don't want activity there at night.

Either so lighting is all cut off and and by the city ordinance so this lighting is not going to be an issue either we plan to do a really nice facility we know there's a need here HOAs are becoming strict on parking boats and RVs and we have a we have customers currently in Apex that live in this area and if they're excited to be closer to their house with the with our new site so it's it's we we will do a very good job with it and I while I'm up here I'm happy to if any other questions have come to you since I've been talking happy to share anything.

Well thank you very much and I think we have another speaker as well great I'll be sitting thanks thank you one online.

Okay if you could give us your name sir your address. Can you hear can you hear us. You can't hear. Even are you able to hear us can you hear Steven yes we hear you oh I'm sorry they didn't they didn't raise my hand or didn't unmute me yes thank you my name is Stephen Nell I live at 1021 restoration Drive in southeast Durham I'm the co-founder of the lease World Coalition of about 5 000 homes in the area we're a proponent of this this development for a couple reasons one as you you know there have been ten thousand new homes approved in in this general area in the past few years this won't really put any strain on these bill or on U.S 70 no matter what type of Road it comes to the Future based on you know the Limited in and out that there would be as far as as people in the location that's number one and then number two there's about 4 000 active adults in.

This area basically people with older people who in many cases downsize to move into these developments which challenges they downsize the size of their house but not the stuff they brought with them so storage units are really important to them it's a place they put Paramus tea chests because you can't just part with it so so this this builds a big need for this area so we're very very supportive of this of this develop this being developed on this space I don't believe the Topography of this land actually allows so thank you very much thank you commissioners if there are no more questions.

Okay I will bring this back to the board I will close the public hearing and then bring this back to the board any other questions for staff hearing none because we have two motions before us and I will entertain a motion for the first one Madam chair I'd like to make a motion to adopt an ordinance amending the unified development ordinance by taking property out of the commercial General with a development plan and residential rule with the Falls Jordan Lake District Watershed protection overlay and establishing the same commercial General with the development plan with the Falls Jordan Lake District B okay it's been moved and properly second all in favor aye motion passes five to zero and the second motion and I'm chair I motion to adopt the appropriate statement of consistency pursuant to NC General statute 160b 605 moved in properly second all in favor aye version passes five to zero.

We will move on to other business 230272 Durham County adverse childhood experiences and resilience presentation the board is requested I have a presentation on an adverse childhood experience and we have Jess it's good to see you our Durham County Aces and resilience coordinators here to present to us and our health director Rock Jenkins is here as well. Thank you chair Howerton good evening Commissioners good to see you good evening Dr so well it's good to be here with you I know chair Howerton we had talked earlier this week and you said I hope you come before the board soon and I said I think it might be pretty soon so here I am that's what you call soon soon yeah within a week but it is good to be before you all and to have an opportunity to share a little bit about what's been going on within our adverse childhood experience and resilience work within the county and of course I don't go anywhere without rods I'm grateful he's here tonight with me.

So we can go ahead and get started as well oh I can do it myself okay all right excellent so to give us kind of a sense of where we're going there are three main buckets of the work that we have carved out for the adverse childhood experience and resilience program maybe we'll call it and that is the Durham adverse childhood experiences and resilience task force or Dart which chair Howerton shares and trauma-informed Care within Durham County Department of Public Health that's an initiative that we've had going for about nine months now and then training and Workforce Development so have an opportunity to share a little bit more about the task force and then share some accomplishments and where we're going for all three of those buckets but before we do that I wanted to share some some updates that we've had in kind of our understanding of adverse childhood experiences in the last few years since we've had a chance to talk and first there is now a Statewide initiative around resilient and thriving.

Communities that's led by the North Carolina partnership for children which I have had the pleasure of serving on the community Advisory Board and Dr Juan de Boone from Durham is also on the state advisory Council for that and they have kind of worked with us to better understand where an adverse experiences in childhood come from and to really kind of look at it in a more holistic way and so this graph which I hope you have a physical copy in front of you this graphic starts with those tree branches the kind of original nine adverse childhood experiences that we had documented starting in the 90s and through work by Dr Wendy Ellis at George Washington University we added the the tree roots and that was a recognition that adverse childhood experiences grow out of adverse community experiences things that are happening in the community that make parenting more challenging that exert challenging Dynamics on families and that create an equity in how we see adverse childhood experiences showing up in our national data.

A couple of years ago we added adverse climate experiences recognizing that things like hurricanes especially for our state I have worked with children in Central North Carolina the experience of hurricane Florence for them was traumatic every time a hurricane was scheduled to come towards them you could it was palpable in the schools you knew it was happening and so I would now say covid-19 is one of those that potentially has had that kind of impact that it's around us we don't necessarily have control of it but it is there and then lastly what NC partnership for children did in consultation with folks across the state is to really recognize that our tree roots come from as we would say in REI training the groundwater and so to really think about why these inequities show up in our communities and so I just wanted to share this with you because it's a little bit different and it's changed over the last couple years and I think it has really helped us think more.

Holistically about adversity in childhood and to not just focus on what's happening within families but to think about families being a part of our community the other exciting development that we've had in the Aces and resilience field is more information about positive childhood experiences this is really important because we have often been so concerned when we see children and adults who have a scores of four or more based on the existing evidence at the time that would indicate potential long-term Health consequences for them but we were seeing that that wasn't holding true at the individual level and we believe that this is why positive childhood experiences have the opportunity to outweigh adverse child experiences which is really good news because that means that we can pile on the positive no matter what is happening and so having an a score of five or six is not deterministic of long-term long-term Health consequences or early death that's good news for a lot of people and we are seeing that these experiences are associated with adult.

Mental health and relational like positive adult mental health so that's really really good to know that things like feeling like you can talk to your family about your feelings sense of belonging at school feeling supported by your friends and enjoying participation in community Traditions are things that we can build for our young people so to quickly touch on our task force we currently have about 40 members and when I say members these are folks who either are attending bi-monthly so every other month meetings are maybe not able to attend those meetings but are engaging with the task force through offering resources to other members or asking for resources or maybe participating in other Dart meetings outside of our main meeting and they are generally coming from Social Services mental health and local government I did a kind of breakdown by sector if we just said Social Services it's kind of a big and local government those are big buckets we're really seeing that it's a lot of mental health in early childhood which makes sense.

Early childhood and mental health were kind of the early adopters of our adverse childhood experiences work and I just want to note that these are people who were really frontlined during the covid-19 response responding to our community and their needs in terms of accomplishments one thing that I'm really excited to share with you because we just launched it this month is resilient Durham NC this is a website that is available at resilient durhamnc.org that we worked with the task force to really build the website around their needs and the needs of other practitioners in our community so this is for anyone who's working with Children and Families whether they are working in a health clinic in an after-school program or if they're working with their neighbors to really understand how can we continue to strive to be more trauma informed as we're supporting our community and so this has information in plain language about what adversity in childhood is what trauma is but it also has this really excellent resource library that.

I'm very excited about because oftentimes people come to me and say Jess have you seen this one resource it's about child welfare and it's a fact sheet and I usually can find it but if they're on a deadline for a grant or for something else program implementation is starting they can go find it themselves very quickly and that was really one of the things we wanted to be able to equip people with it also has an opportunity to sign up for training news and events for the task force other things that we're doing and for them to get on our newsletter distribution which is in every other newsletter since we last spoke we revised our mission and vision and this was really to acknowledge that we are not just concerned about individual level trauma for a child but Community level trauma things that happen in the community that impact not just a child and not just their family but also their neighbors and to recognize that there are racial inequities related to individual and.

Community level trauma and that we wanted we want that to be centered in the work that we do moving on to our work at Public Health we formed a trauma-informed care task force within Public Health we have 11 different public health staff from eight different programmatic areas currently who are involved in this work we have been meeting for quite some time now to develop a path forward for how are we do we become more trauma informed with our clients and with each other as staff recognizing that secondary traumatic stress and being supportive of each other is critical to us being able to be trauma informed with our clients and community and so we partnered with the national Center for Child traumatic stress to do an organizational assessment it's an assessment they have been working with with the centers for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration on and they did our data collection to add a level of confidentiality for our staff and helped us with analysis in coaching our team as we.

Tried to dig a little bit more into the data understand what was going on and we're about to start moving forward a little that in a minute but one thing that I am really I wanted to emphasize is that this this is an organizational assessment we're not asking staff about their own experiences we're asking about our policies our practices our procedures as an organization to be able to make changes in training in Workforce Development I facilitated 13 trainings with almost 600 people in the last couple of years I will say 200 plus of those are our own Durham County public health staff which is fantastic they have all been through trauma-informed care training and training on adverse childhood experiences we partnered with the community linkages to care the opioid response Grant team and some Duke providers and Southern Regional ahec to provide a training on a training series three trainings on substance use and trauma-informed care for our providers recognizing that these two things often happen at the same time and that just.

Treating the substance use may do further harm if we are not also treating the trauma that might be underlying it and so really being able to talk to Providers about that lastly we did a three-part training series with some of our County staff from the Criminal Justice Resource Center some of our Public Health staff and Care Management for at-risk children and project build around Community resiliency model skills building motivational interviewing substance use Mental Health 101 and motivational interviewing and that was you know just to give people skills that they can use with each other and with community we invested in responding to covid-19 and family resilience over the last several years diaper need is actually really related to parent social emotional health and that was one of the biggest focuses we had was around supporting our parents through kobit 19.

So we were able to work with the diaper bank to get about 60 000 diapers out to our community we also had four contracts with local organizations to address parental stress resilience and family strengthening and just in this fiscal year we have six contracts either for Parental stress resilience and family strengthening or Workforce Development with 84 of those dollars going to minority and women-owned businesses organizations so what's next partnership is so key to this work we don't do this by ourselves and there are so many different task forces organizations coalitions who are working at addressing some of the root causes of adverse childhood experiences or particular pieces of adverse childhood experiences and so we'll continue those Partnerships specifically with grown in Durham our early childhood action plan around that resource navigation and social emotional and mental health continuing our collaboration with a partnership for a healthy Durham's mental health committee on social emotional and mental health and I sit on the advisory Council for our whole schools movement and that work will support.

In terms of our trauma-informed care initiative we've already started doing listening sessions to better understand our survey results it's one thing to have the numbers and maybe some qualitative data we actually had really good qualitative data come back but we wanted to dive in a little bit deeper to make sure that whatever we created made sense and was actually addressing the need that had been raised and so we're going to be starting action planning very soon of what interventions are we going to do next we don't want to just know what the problem is let's do something about it and one of my big hopes for this is a round process and outcome evaluation really understanding did it work we expect it to but also why did it work how did it work because this hasn't really been done in a public health department before we are we're kind of leading the way here and so we want to be able to turn around and say this is how we did it and this.

Is why it worked so either for if other County departments are interested in doing this in the future this could serve as a pilot or other public health departments across the state would have an opportunity to be able to say oh it didn't just work for them this is how we can do it in terms of Workforce Development we are with the partnership for healthy Durham's mental health committee we just launched a community resilience model teacher learning collaborative where we will have five people from different sectors at least one person who's bilingual going through Community resiliency model training which is a set of six Wellness skills to help us expand our ability our resilience and then they will be meeting together to finish their certifications and then also be able to do training together in the community and this is actually a model I should really give credit to New Hanover County this is something we learned from them and said huh yeah that's a good idea we'll do that.

And then we are also working with Duke and Durham Tech and Southern Regional ahac on a trauma-informed care provider Symposium that will be this fall where it will be 100 to 150 is what we're expecting clinical providers community health workers care managers coming together to learn more about what are the practical skills that we can use in conversations with community and patients to be more trauma-informed so we are in the throes of planning that for this fall and then lastly Dart is starting up their policy work group again I know chair Howerton we had a very good discussion last week at the dart meeting and we look forward to bringing back some policy recommendations for you all sometime later in the year a lot of energy there around prevention oh thank you Jess anything for you Ron anything for you I think Jessa said it all good evening to this illustrious board I'd be remiss if I did not say thank you to this board for investing in this position.

As I said to manager so well doing budget presentations that Jess is Public Health and she is fiercely committed to the ideals of Public Health and he is a great team player and she is lending her expertise to a number of different Public Health initiatives and causes so we're certainly have our own team but you know more importantly we strive to be cutting edge during public health and she's assisting Us in doing just that and sort of like how we reached across county lines with black maternal health issues with Guilford County we're doing the exact same thing with orange count there's an initiative with pcori and it's all about Black maternal health care and reducing infant mortality and disparities and Jess is hopefully going to help us with that as well so your return on investment is enormous and I cannot be more great well thank you both so much Jess thank you I mean 590 five people is a lot you know as a as a trainer facilitator that's a lot of people.

Over a year period of time for or how long 18 months 18 months and I will I will I will add in the midst of all coveted response yeah as required that's a lot so thank you Commissioners I have been wanting to make sure that you were informed about what Isis was happening with the Aces and and all the work that Jess has been doing and we this last meeting I I threw out a challenge here that I'm going to ask one of the board members to help to facilitate and and I'm looking at commissioner Carter this this fits very well some of the work that you're doing with the child fatality recommendations some of them do and as we talked about at our last meeting as we talked about policy and we talked about a resolution and my challenge was let's not just do a resolution unless it calls for this board to take some action a resolution is pretty it sounds good but is there any action that we're taking.

So I'm gonna ask commissioner Carter to work with me on what kind of policy that we can come up with you set the challenge sure especially if we have Jazz and Rod being in our our wing people on support yeah helping us make informed decisions but yes absolutely sure so okay thank you too and and I and and and that means also for all the full boards to have input in that because we I just wanted them to have something that talks about adverse childhood trauma it's it's important and then all the shootings that have been happening in our community all of these things impact the entire Community when the community is not well our children are not well.

Commissioners I'll start with commissioner Burns one this was so timely so thank you so much I took a lot of notes and I do want to just throw out I can appreciate like even that first slide with the tree I think so much you know we do think about just the childhood right when you threw up cultural in there like when we think about segregation when we think about anything like these are things that the residue passes on to the children like the lessons we're taught I was talking to a group of young girls today they're nowhere near from where I'm from but their mamas told him what my mama told me you know what I'm saying and then climate I really don't think some people think about what happens to people in southeast of North Carolina that is work that I do every day and when you're living in a house where the walls are caked with mold because every year it rains and that's what you have to.

Breathe in and then you can't understand why chronic asthma is an issue in this one like that's what the C is for so one that visual needs to be tattooed on somebody something and everybody needs to look at it because we got to start looking at in a more holistic way the information that you brought up about the diapers a few of us were able to go to the North Carolina diaper Bank this weekend and we noticed I think she told us it may keep me correct commissioner Jacobs that they will be giving out 23 million diapers this year so okay she sat there and she made a good point and she you know she did not hold back you know why the governor was standing while men were standing there talking about period poverty if a mom can't afford diapers and she's gonna buy diapers first before she buys feminine she certainly cannot buy feminine products so just the fact that holistically like the kid has to see all.

Of that dad mom and dad to see all that and the fact that we're making those Investments along with the investment that we made in the perinatal Center like that's huge I want to go back only because like right now I know you probably trained out but you know I'm I'm a commissioner and I'm a resident I go to Southside Church of Christ they're on their third series of doing apparent Aces series I I'm trying to figure out you know is there a presentation because and I pulled it up just to make sure for their third session so you won't be able to make it but I think it would be really interesting to talk even to parents in German whether it's the church I go another church about these three other C's so yeah I have climate childhood community and culture and who do we have because I know you're stretched in they did yeah it was called parent Aces series on adverse childhood experiences but right now for the month of May there.

It's the it's the culmination of all of the the trainings and so now they're giving them tools well tools are really great for that 1C but what do we have for like these other three C's and so I just want to throw that out because I think you know our churches now that we're seeing them do this work and we're seeing governments invest in this work what does partnering with that work look like so that's fine yeah no that's thank you for that question that's a great question I actually just presented to the Durham County Health Ministry Network to tell them about some of the training opportunities that we do have and so we are having a few conversations with a few churches thankfully I am not the only person who can do these trainings which is good because I love training people and I also have limited energy I I don't think I do but I do so we do have other people within Dart who are incredibly wonderful.

Trainers and have been doing training for a very long time and I'm happy to connect and talk about who that could be and who would be the right person because sometimes you need someone who's a good fit to do a training and so we definitely have more than a few trainers who could do that training. Mr Jacobs Well thank you so much Jess I have been looking forward to this presentation for quite a long time I think it really got delayed by covid so I'm really really glad to hear about all the amazing work that you have been leading and I just want to go back to the hiring the just for really for the county managers benefit and so some of a lot of the new staff probably about five years ago the board of Board of County Commissioners wanted to invest in systemic change and structural change and to have certain positions like the food security position The Early Childhood position and this position the trauma informed the Asus.

Position to come in and really help us have integrate these approaches system-wide through Durham County Government so I guess you know I'm I see the roots of this beginning but I guess what I really want I think looking forward what I would find really helpful is I would love to hear recommendations about how do we really integrate you know whether it's the trainings or whatever recommendations through all the Departments I mean because you know DSS think about our new community intervention and support services department I mean you name it EMS you know the the sheriff's Office of the sheriff there's just you know our EMS our staff are interacting with people all day long and I I mean I've benefit from it personally you know I just think so I I would I really look forward to as you do your work and even you know like for instance DSS we have a community the catd community accountability Talent Development so we're doing internal training and HR within DSS so how can we integrate.

This you know these approaches you're only one person right so I don't know if that means you know when you were talking about the training program and so how do we start really spreading this out the other thing was that yeah the graphic is incredible and when I was looking at it I don't know if you can go back and bring that up but I I was even thinking like from a policy perspective you know we've talked about how we look at our policies and how are they addressing racial equity you know when we approve things in our budget how are they addressing how are they being trauma informed you know like I would love it for us to get to a point where where we're actually that's how we're looking at things that we 've make decisions about and I know we're going to talk about it in a minute but when I look at the arpa funding that we have what we've approved tonight a lot of those things.

Get at some of those branches sure and even some of the roots you know in terms of the programs that we we just support for the non-profits that are providing those programs and services so yeah so those were just some of my thoughts from the work that you're doing and how we can support it and just and thank you for for everything that you're doing to help transform Durham County government so that we are more resilient and Trauma informed thank you hello I was just going to say thank you for your beautiful comments and you know as we come out of covet this is the type of Public Health work that we look forward to while we were doing coveted work this was the kind of things that we were dreaming about yeah so we're we're good team players as manager soil knows Public Health certainly is stands ready to assist other departments look forward to spreading our wings if you will and kind of doing the kind of things that's going.

To provide those policy systems and environmental change that you receive thank you so much for the for this all the work that went in behind the scenes for this presentation to come to fruition you know as I was looking at this tree also something that came to my mind was that most of us were at the Durham youth votes event this past weekend where we were sitting down with students to talk about what issues are important to them and it was amazing to me because I was not thinking about the things that these kids were talking to us about when I was in high school and it was like very amazing I was very proud of them but it's also very sad to like to be hearing these kids because they should be kids enjoying their lives and the concerns that they have mostly about their friends and their colleagues that's something that is overarching in all of these branches and Roots but I feel like could use its own or maybe an.

Umbrella over all of it is just the political climate that we're in also and how it's having a mental health impact on our youth especially so many of the conversations that I had with youth around lgbtq youth and like I know I've seen reports I'm sure my colleagues have seen that like I think it was like close to 50 percent of lgbtq Youth had strongly considered committing suicide last year and a lot of that is just because of just how hateful and vitriolic the conversations have just been for them to see every single day and I'm wondering like what type of work and Partnerships are we creating especially for our lgbtq youth and also like a call to action for my board of you know after those conversation with the Youth of what are we doing within our schools to start getting more Mental Health Resources into our schools because a lot of times these kids don't have any other way to get to Mental Health Resources they're.

Already in the school so let's get it to them while they're there because once they get home their parents may not have transportation they may not be able to afford it like there's so many other barriers once they leave school grounds I'm really glad you brought that up commissioner Alum thank you I think that might be if I were to make a few tweaks to this tree there are two things that I would make sure we call out and one is discrimination based on sexual orientation and the other one would be disability because of what we see in the data if we look at National level data one of the places in addition to race that we see disparities in just those tree branches is among our lgbtq youth and I think that if I would wager a very educated guess that that goes back to discrimination and experiences of homelessness that our lgbtq youth face nationally and so I think there's one thing I think we we should think about.

This a little bit more if I'm honest the other thing that the one thing that we are really doing and pushing out really strongly is our new is the new 988 number which is the it it goes to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline but it is a line that anyone can call if they are dealing with suicidal ideation or even just having a mental health crisis or just really stressed and we saw when that launched in July those first two months are calls from young people shot up particularly Under 12 and I was I was taken aback a bit about how how far up that had gone but that tells me that the the word is getting out that you can call you can text you can chat 988 and have a live person who's trained as a mental health crisis counselor talk to you and so we've been doing a lot through our School nurses to get that information out and into the health rooms we've been working with DPS.

Foundation to get word out about 988 and that's something we'll continue to do as one thing we can do to make sure that lgbtq youth know that there is there are resources out there we think I'll also add commission alums that I have along myself along with medical director Jeff jings and can you speak a little louder I can't hear you we've been very passionate about ensuring that our entire staff is trained on how to properly interact and care for this community lgbtq community so much so that we brought in subject matter experts we got the name of the company but Global citizen that's right and we've had a series of training as a matter of fact the last one just wrapped up about a couple of weeks ago and now we're going into listening sessions so again I think it's important for us to really understand this community for us to understand how to care for this community to understand how to make it a warm and friendly environment for them.

To come into the Health and Human Services building and I'm just really proud that the entire staff of the health department has received I think it would be great I don't know if you guys have already done this or thought about it but maybe when the office on youth has their next meeting bringing this presentation to them because yeah they were the ones some of the main organizers of the event we went to yeah I think that's probably I'm sorry Lara a partnership that I've left off of here but I've worked very closely with Laura and Elise but yes I think this is something that we could maybe explore with the young people too yeah commissioner Carter well just quickly I'll add my voice to the chorus of gratitude and praise for this most important work and you know I really do hope that this budget season that we will get some recommendations from you all for you know action that we can take now investment we can make investments we.

Can make now that you think would be the most effective and efficient at helping to prevent the you know the trauma and helping to provide antidotes to the trauma that we you know that we screen for you know on a regular system-wide sort of community level kind of way and that that we then can address you know whether that be something like you know Universal basic income that we've talked about or you know other you know other sorts of initiatives I know you all come forward with but something maybe you know that would be within one of the systems that we're working right that affects Children and Families just a strong Army a couple of times to put some things in the budget like we we have a couple of things I just want to add one more couple more things one I see one of the environmental justice and you mentioned the environment and you know one of the questions I don't want to ask that I'm listening to.

A lot more lately because of the environmental the pfas being on that committee it's a National Committee that I serve but I serve North Carolina and I'm just wondering I'm hearing how it's impacting even mothers that are having babies and I'm wondering where are you seeing that as you're talking to people are you hearing about the results of those chemicals anywhere I haven't been hearing anything yet but I think it's definitely something I will look into because I think this might be an interesting intersection that we need to keep an eye on it is okay anything that's in in houses pfases is addressing all those all those areas and as you well know I mean of course no Community is exempt but having been to Deputy Public Health director down in Cumberland County with Cam Wars and all the different town hall meetings that I had to attend that really got series and violet I mean we're very blessed to be in this location where our partners at the city of Durham is.

Really are really on the watch for that I mean dialogue between us and our environmental health on-site protection division so please know that public health is living true to its banter we're silent Warriors silent professionals we're doing a whole lot that you don't know about and hopefully you won't know about because yeah well there's a I'll tell us there was a whole bunch of money that just came to North Carolina I don't have the numbers in front of me and I'd like to know I think it's going to Dina so we'd like to know anything that you'd find out about where that how that money is being allocated where is it going is it any areas that we need to pay attention to in Durham absolutely Madam chair okay thank you thank you so much any other questions commissioners are there were there any requests for us that you haven't stated or is it just information just information at this time a resolution will be coming in the next.

Week or so all right thank you so much thank you all right let's see now we are going to move on to boards and commissions but before we go there there was a request for some information manager. Talk about that a bit absolutely good evening everyone grateful for the opportunity to talk about the progress that we're making on our arpa allocations and if you will recall in December the board approved for staff to initiate contract 49 contract with non-profits to allocate 10.3 million dollars of our arpa funding and so as a reminder we issued rfps that were in seven focused areas and so tonight we are asking the board to approve contracts 24 contracts that relate to these Focus areas so real quickly I'll just summarize what those Focus areas are so for capacity building and technical assistance for child care we have two contracts for expanding access to affordable child care we have two contracts for improving child and family social emotional and mental health for children ages 0 to 12. we.

Have five contracts and for improving Youth and Family social emotional and mental health for youth ages 13 to 24. We have five contracts and four for youth enrichment and recreational activities we have nine contracts and then for Crime intervention initiatives we have one contract and I would like to acknowledge our Deputy County Manager Claudia Hager who has led this great work to get us to this point and she along with some of our other staff have helped to review a lot of the proposals and so I'll ask her to also talk about the next steps in bringing forth the remaining contract good evening board members it's great to get to this stage in the process yay and it's been an iterative process for the last several months my colleagues in the Departments many of them have helped with the reviewing of applications and now that we're in the contract stage we've had some input as well so I may be the face but there are many others who are helping us get to this stage.

We are trying to move as quickly as possible for those of you who've ever managed grants that sometimes a slow process but it's even slower one when you're talking about federal dollars and so we're making sure that we're evaluating even further what infrastructure is needed the board was committed to supporting some non-profits that may not have had grant funding me for at this with with the federal government so we're making sure that we have the arms around support systems to ensure that things are seamless so so real quickly over the next several board meetings through June we'll continue bringing you contracts they may be a couple here and a few there with the intent of finalizing all of them by the end of the fiscal year and so continue to give us pause if you have questions about timing but we're moving swiftly and although for some it may not feel Swift enough but they will still continue to have 24 months to complete their work which was our original commitment.

Thank you so much Claudia I know we know that this has been a mountain load of work and we really appreciate the work that you and and yours and the staff the rest of the staff has been doing and I just want you know we've been talking about children tonight we've been talking about our young people and it's so so encouraging to hear the contract or around social emotional around our children and our child care around crime intervention all of those things are things that we all have a heart for and we appreciate the work that you're doing to make these things Mr Jacob yeah I'm just I just really want to celebrate this moment because there is I mean there's this is over five million dollars that is being directly invested into our community that is going to result in services and programs that are benefiting our our mothers our families our children our youth and I'm just I'm wondering how is this will we detail information in a press release about.

What we've the contracts that have been approved just I'd like to know how we are going to celebrate and share this great news yeah and Deborah and I have been sort of talking over the last couple of days we will detail and press releases and highlight the non-profit entities and we have a strategy for those conversations and we're fleshing out timing but that once we got to this point we shared with non-profits we would then start firming up press releases and features and either the newsletters or other types of approaches and so look to see that over the next several weeks and in months to come because we have lots of stories to tell right and we also want to make people aware of these new opportunities there's been a lot of conversation between the city and the county about the goal of getting as many children and youth busy and engaged during the summer and a lot of these programs that are being funded are actually going to increase capacity.

To create more slots for existing programs for the summer for different ages so I I'm you know I think it's it's just a great great timing and also with supporting the whole schools program that Durham Public Schools is helping with and even thinking about the diversity of people who are being helped you know El futuro our immigrant and refugees and this there is just so much in here and I'm grateful to you Claudia for your leadership on this and for all the staff that were have been a part of the decision making and betting process about this and I do also we forgot to mention actually one of the consent agendas items which is further support for the 4-H juntos 4-H Youth program is another great opportunity for our youth so we're very fortunate we are going to have a lot of opportunities for young people in our community over the next year or two going forward thank you.

Quick requester question if we aren't doing it already do we have a page on the County website that shows like these are all of the programs and organizations outside of County government that we are funding and supporting we'll we'll expand on that page but we do have a page and that's what Deputy manager Hager and Deborah Perry gray are working on to upgrade it and have all of that we we will transform a lot of this very soon.

That's it okay attorney boys and commissions thank you madam chair tonight we have certain appointees to Durham County boards and Commissioners I'll go through the list for the Durham County Hospital Corporation Board of Trustees there has been a vote for Whitney Stanley to continue and for Charles cooperberg to be appointed those are both on the community representative category for the Duke Regional Hospital medical staff representative the vote was for Philip Fong for the Lincoln Community Health Center representative the vote is for Federico manone for the Duke Regional Hospital physicians representative the vote was for mashael Al hagelan or the historic preservation Commission the vote was for Kenneth Webb we regarding the juvenile crime prevention Council there were there's been a decision by the board to move that to at least the next month to allow more applicants to come in so that we can get a majority vote for that particular position in the citizens position there was not a majority of the board for that particular position so unless.

Madam chair wants to handle in a different way okay well that concludes the ballot for tonight all right all right well thank you appreciate it and and congratulations to all the ones that have been opponent appointed all the citizens that were appointed thank you for being willing to serve anything else that needs to be brought before the board you're nothing.

I will ask for a motion to adjourn all in favor we are adjourned.