Board of Commissioners · Regular Meeting · January 22, 2024

Beginning with a closed session the board is requested to adjourn into Clos session to consider the qualifications competence performance character Fitness conditions of appointment or conditions of initial employment of an individual public officer or employee or prospective public officer or employee or to hear or investigate a complaint charge or grievance by or against an individual public officer or employee pursuant to General statute 43-31 18.1 A6 I will entertain a motion to enter into close session so move Madam chair okay moved by Vice chair Burn seconded by commissioner Lee all in favor I I any opposed motion passes four to zero okay we are in close session thank you.

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Evening everyone the board has met in closed session no action was taken Direction was given to staff we are now beginning our regular session portion of the meeting with the public charge the board of Board of County Commissioners asks its members and citizens to conduct themselves in a respectful courteous manner both with the board and fellow citizens at any time should any member of the board or any citizen fail to observe this public charge the chair will ask the offending person to leave the meeting until the individual regains personal control should decorum fail to be restored the chair will recess the meeting until such time that a genuine commitment to the public charge is observed as a courtesy to others please turn off cell phones during the meeting and now I will ask commissioner Jacobs to lead us in the Pledge of.

Allegiance thank you commissioner Jacobs I'll now pass it to our clerk for announcements good evening Commissioners and staff I will read the announcement is published in tonight's agenda everyone is invited to the 19th annual Durham City County employee Martin Luther King Jr observance program on Thursday January 25th at 11:30 a.m. the event will be held at First Presbyterian church located at 305 East Main Street downtown Durham Dr Mark Anthony Neil James B Duke distinguished professor of African and and African and African-American studies at Duke University will be our keynote speaker this free event will feature remarks from local leaders and elected officials and musical selections by Kimberly Mitchell there is a link on the website with additional information Durham prek is holding a family information session on Saturday February 3rd from 10: till 10:30 a.m. to help families learn about the Duram prek application process for the 2425 school year the session will have a Spanish interpretation available and will allow participants to learn about during prek how to complete the.

Application and what to expect from the process you can register by accessing the link that's available online as well the Durham County Soil and Water Conservation District holds annual conservation themed contest to promote students attitude of stewardship for our natural resources all Durham County students in grades three to 12 are eligible to participate for information Det detailing the current year theme of The Living Soul along with rules tips and more you can visit DC nc.gov backs swcd and click on Environmental Education tab entries are due by January 15th at 5:00 P PM the Durham County Cooperative Extension is offering a grafting workshop on Saturday February 10th from 10:30 till 11:00 a.m. followed by a ion exchange from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon at the extension office located at 7:21 Foster Street tickets are $5 and they are nearly sold out join us to learn how to graft your own plants to produce both flowers and fruit and there is a link for registration the 2024 Deco Care's recipient organization applications are.

Now open to all nonprofits serving our community Deco cares is the annual Durham County government employee giving campaign in which our employees donate funds to those nonprofit agencies chosen as an annual recipient organization applications will open through February 16th of 2024 for additional information or to apply to be a recipient organization please visit duramount cares.org backapply the draft fiscal year 25 Transit work program from the Durham County Transit department will be available for public comment on in February 2024 information regarding the draft work program can be found on the staff working group website there is a link for that questions or comments can also be directed to the staff working group administrator the Durham County Board of Elections will be conducting voter ID Outreach events in 24 at the Durham County Library locations at these events eligible residents will be able to get a free photo identification card on site and get updated information on the North Carolina photo ID requirement the next session will be held on Saturday February 17th at Southwest Regional.

Library located at 3605 Shannon Road from 12: to 3: noon I'm sorry 3 p.m. to see more details on the events and download the event flyer there is a link to click and you can also visit the State Board of Elections website for additional information on the North Carolina photo ID requirement a reminder to Durham County voters that their early voting for the March 5th 2024 primary election primary and election will be held from Thursday February 15th through Saturday March 2nd find out more information about early voting and same day registration at The Deco Board of Elections website that's Deco votes.com and lastly be safe and keep your family safe by getting your updated covid-19 vaccine and flu shot and pick up your free vaccine I'm sorry free covid-19 test at the Durham County Department of Public Health it's located at 414 East Main Street covid vaccines are available by appointment only while flu shots can be appointment or Walkin schedule your covid vaccine by calling 919 560 7658 and schedule your flu shots by.

Calling 919 5607 608 more information can be found at Deco publical dog that concludes the announcements publish in tonight's agenda thank you clerk Wallace I'll now turn it to the board to see if there's any additional announcements Vice chair Burns not necessarily announcement but a huge thank you I want to send out a a big big thank you to the manager everybody in Emergency Management everybody in public safety that I'm not thinking of last week could have been really rough with the power being out and the turn Tammy Claudia Maurice everybody all this in to Deborah Craig Ray like it didn't matter what I asked for I said oh my gosh we don't have this in Spanish can we get it in Spanish y'all turn it right back around we opened up a high school there were beds there were cops there was food the warming stations shout out to Joan and everybody else who opened up DSS when their own homes were cold so I just want.

To publicly say thank you y'all are the best people in the whole wide world and y'all did not take a curtain call and that is a classy thing to do I saw other elected officials taking curtain calls for y'all work it didn't sit with me well so thank y'all for being classy thank y'all for taking care of our folks and U making sure nobody had to be cold or hungry last week I appreciate it also are we sharing on our website I know that Duke Energy does have a form set up for folks who lost food food that might have spoiled in the deep freezer and refrigerator so I just want to continue to make sure that we share that so we can at least try to help people recruit what they can that they by a loss last week and that's all the only announcement thank you Vice chair Burns commissioner Jacobs I just wanted to piggyback on what commissioner Burns just said we had DSS staff who.

Were were working at the shelter we had public health staff we had our library staff who were helping with the warming stations it was a fullon county Durham County team effort so thank you to everyone thank you and also thank you to the small businesses that stepped up and I know helped provide some of those meals hot meals for families especially the kids who were in the schools that had been closed down to the power issue to make sure they still receive breakfast and lunch and meals during that time announcements on the side okay I will now ask if there's any adjustments to the agenda sorry I skipped over that before okay seeing no adjustments we will move on to the minutes of seeking approval for our work session January 2nd 2024 minutes and our regular session on January 8 2024 minutes to approve those so move second okay moved by commissioner Jacob seconded by Vice chair Burns all in favor say I I I any opposed okay minutes are approved 5 to.

Zero we'll now reach our consent agenda the consent agenda is filled with items that our staff and management have all worked tirelessly on and presented to us at work sessions and worked with us to educate us and give us an opportunity to ask ask questions in the community to learn about I will ask and see if there are any questions or items that Commissioners would like to pull from the consent agenda commissioner Jacob yeah I I just want to note these are actually things that we didn't make it on to the work session but I I did want to just draw attention to the two items about the Lincoln Community Health Center parking lot expansion I see Brenda and Perry sitting out here these are items that have been really we've been working really hard to move forward for a long time and I know that Lincoln Community Health Center staff are going to really really appreciate the parking lot expansion so I'm very excited about that I do have a question about.

24-32 the DSs building expansion of the or kind of updating the RFP with the development Finance Institute I am thrilled thank you Madame manager for moving this forward I do have a question about the scope of work for this and because I'm so glad that they're going back and we're getting this moving in since it's been three years and not only have some of the economic conditions changed but also even thinking about the needs of our community I didn't see anything in there that was related to kind of getting Community input and engagement again or revisiting kind of what are going to be the priorities if we do an AR do an RFP for this just wondering about that piece of that because they helped us with that as well in the past so this extension is really to help update the information I think it's been about two or three years since you all saw this and and so they're going to go back and revine refine and revisit some of the.

Information in there that'll help inform what will go in the RFP and we're looking to make the RFP broad enough to get ideas for what we can do with the building and then once we make a selection then have those Community conversations about how we outfit it sounds great thank you so much other questions I seeing no more questions do we hear an approval for this consent agenda second moveed by commissioner Auten seconded by Vice chair Burns all in favor I I any opposed motion to approve the consent agenda passes 5 to zero that moves us forward to yes and I want to offer commissioner burn Vice chair Burns a point of personal privilege somebody must have done something something really bad today cuz my mama just walked in I don't know which one of y'all it was she has never walked into these Chambers but my mama just walked in I'm just putting everybody on notice because I am not the dangerous one so I'm joking she's hey.

Mom how you doing okay we can move on yeah Tasha comes in here all the time but my mom ain't never walked in here so than highlight our favorite sister Burns's here welcome to DAR Mommy okay that moves us to our public hearing items we have a public hearing on not to exceed on not to exceed 87 million limited obligation bonds series 202 for 2022 2024a and 2024b the board is requested to hold a public hearing on the negotiation of an amendment to an installment financing contract in connection with the execution and delivery of not to exceed 87 million limited obligation bonds and the related projects to be financed and referenced thereby following the public hearing the board is requested to adopt the attached resolution which authorizes the negotiation to adopt the attached resolution which authorizes the negotiation of an amendment to an installment financing contract in connection with the execution and delivery of not to exceed 87 million limited obligation bonds copies of all the reference documents are on file with.

The chief officer available so I will pass it to our clerk I'd like to report to the board that a public hearing notice relating to financing one renovations to a shopping center a portion of which will house the County's Board of Elections office two the construction of a pump station known known as the Snow Hill Road Pump Station three Renovations and Public Safety improvements to various County school facilities and four the construction of a parking facility located at the 500 block of East Main Street in the county pursuant to an amendment to an installment financing contract in a principal amount not to exceed 87 million was EST was published on January 11th 2024 stating that the board would hold a public hearing there on on on January 22nd 2024 thank you clerk Wallace the board will now hear anyone who wishes to be heard on the questions of the proposed amendment to the contract and the projects to be financed thereby so I will now open up our public.

Hearing did we have anyone sign up to speak we did not have anyone sign up to speak and there are there's no one online I will then entertain motion or do there any questions from the. Board seeing none I will entertain a motion to close the public hearing or yeah Madam oh Madam chair I move that we I move that the public hearing be closed okay I will now take a vote all in favor I any opposed hearing none this public hearing is closed now a resolution entitled resolution of the Board of Commissioners of the D County of Durham North Carolina approving an amendment to the installment financing agreement and delivery thereof and related matters is before the board for consideration authorizing staff to move forward as County Representatives with the proposed financing the projects the clerk just described and authorizing the execution and delivery of certain documents in connection with the financing is there a motion to adopt the resolution I make that motion second move by commissioner Lee seconded by.

Commissioner Jacobs all in favor oh is there any discussion on the motion all in favor I I any opposed okay seeing none motion passes 5 to zero and that brings us back to our boards and commission appointments I will pass it to our attorney Curtis Massie thank you madam chair I have tallied the votes and can advise that your selection for the Board of Health pharmacist position is Jean Ria your selection for the Durham County women's commission at large position is Kon be and your selection for the Durham Planning Commission at large position is Matt copac thank you attorney Massie thank you to every individual who had applied and signed up to serve Durham County and thank you and I look forward to working with the individuals who have been selected to serve and look forward to the individuals who weren't selected to continue to look at the boards and commissions that are open and available for opportunities to serve in other ways that brings us to the end of our.

Agenda I will like entertain a motion to adjourn Madam chair I'd like to make a motion that we adj move by Vice chair Burn seconded by commissioner Auten all in favor I any.

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