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And open up the closed session today July 10th 2023 we are here for a closed session 230489 so the board is requested to adjourn into closed session to consider the qualifications competence performance character Fitness condition 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 agreements by or against an individual public officer or employee pursuit to gs143.318.11 A6 we can get a motion to move into new closed session I can move by commissioner Lee second by commissioner Allam all in favor aye motion passes three zero we are in closed session.
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It okay so we need a motion to come out of the whole session so can I get a motion commissioners. Okay it's moved and properly second all in favor it's been probably it's been approved five to zero. So good evening everyone today is July 10th 2023 our regular meeting will open the meeting and I will read the public charge the Board of Commissioners ask its members and citizens to conduct themselves in a respectful courteous manner both were 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 that 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 this point I will ask I forget who did it the last time I think that was because she Burns let's go on this side and have commissioner Lee if you will.
Lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance and if he will stand with us.
We've got our announcements or our next Commissioners and we will ask Miss Wallace if she will read our announcements for us good evening everyone I will read the announcements published in today's agenda summer Open Space Program volunteers are needed can you imagine a more enjoyable way to spend your summer weekends than hiking in the Heat or doing tough manual labor the Durham County Open Space Program encourages you to sign up for one of our upcoming summer volunteer work days volunteers help care for Durham's public lands and tackle some of the toughest issues in local conservation you can contact David Bradley at 919-943-3994 or you can sign up online there is a link for additional questions or to volunteer watch in touch with Durham County did you know that that the County's Public Information office produces a monthly show to update residents on services and programs in this month's in touch with Durham County show we welcome Library director Tammy Baggett best to discuss the awesome services and programming at.
All of our Deco libraries we also have public health information Specialists and Firearm injury prevention partnership member Donna Rosser on to talk about gun safety efforts in Durham County you can watch on our YouTube link and there is a link here for that as well Russell blunt East Coast invitational track and field the 21st edition of the Russell e blunt East Coast invitational track and field meet will be held from July 21st through the 23rd at Durham County Memorial Stadium located at 750 Stadium Drive the annual event welcomes the best track and field athletes in age groups from eight and under to 17 and 18 from the region for a highly competitive meet for additional information you can email d-s-y-a at durhamstriders.com or you can visit their website durhamstriders.com Durham area food and resources map check out the Durham area food and resources map it's a One-Stop resource to find food pantries places to get a hot meal farmers markets that take snap and WIC benefits in grocery stores that also.
Receive or accept Snap and WIC benefits there is a link here where you can click to view the resource map 20 23 24 Deco agricultural Economic Development grants the Durham County Agricultural economical I'm sorry Economic Development grant program is accepting applications this program offers cost to share grants to assist farmers and non-profits in their agricultural Endeavors and to promote AG development and outdoor environmental Learning Centers in schools they're virtual and in person sessions that will be held on July 11th from 8 to 9 pm July 13th from 6 to 7 pm and July 18th from 6 to 7 PM registration is required and there is a website Star Talk podcast with Deco Sheriff the Durham County Sheriff's office has a podcast called Star Talk the dcso is excited to use this technology to reach out to the Durham County Community the second episode features Ryan Smith the city of Durham's director of community safety and shared clearance Burkhead talking about hard holistic empathetic assistance response teams you can check.
It out and there is a link for that as well all together now let's plant swap for the second plant swap of 2023 you can take a plant and chat chat with a Master Gardener from The Cooperative Extension drop by and exchange or share house plants vegetables starts annuals perennials or seeds please make sure items brought are pest free and labeled this event is held Saturday July 15th from 2 to 3 30 at the Southwest Library Southwest Regional Library there is a link here for additional information and I do have one additional announcement that is not published in our agenda and that is the lobby naming ceremony join Durham County government as we celebrate the Life and Legacy of formal former Durham County attorney Lowell L Seiler this event will take place on Friday July 14th at 10 A.M and it will be located in our administrative 2 Building located directly across the street 201 East Main Street on the first floor if you have additional questions you can contact 919-560-0000 that concludes the.
Announcements in tonight's agenda thank you Miss Wallace are there any agenda adjustments from any commissioners hearing nine Commissioners I I have to acknowledge our community is is traumatized and in pain today and it has been since last week when a five-year-old child was shot and killed and to for us to proceed without acknowledging that just doesn't set well with me I you know there's not it used to be every so often but this is happening every day almost too frequently that our children are being shot and killed and you know as we all receive the email from Linda Chappelle from pre-k and she talked about how that whole organization is troubled and traumatized that that young child was in their classes and here we are in Durham again you know as Commissioners we keep coming up with things that we think will help the community and prevent our children from being in arm's way and it continues to happen and it's just not Durham it's all over our country as the governor.
Put together a task force around guns and you know it's I'm not saying people shouldn't have guns but they should be able to keep them out of arm's way of our children and it pains me that here we are again a five-year-old child dead. And if you don't know this is something that their parents will never ever get over. So it takes a whole Community this is not a Board of County Commissioners issue to handle it's not a city council it is up to this entire community to work toward what can we do to save our children.
That's what's on my heart today and I just need to say that and and as we look at this month minority mental health awareness of this month and to an opportunity to highlight mental health challenges is something that we all would need to pay attention to mental health is an issue and I'm not saying that everybody every time somebody picks up a gun and shoots somebody it's a mental health issue I'm just saying that mental health is an issue. Just need to say it.
So thank you Commissioners I just needed to say that if anybody else has anything to say please do Madam chair not to even take away from the moment or to even add anything because I think you articulated that beautifully but I did want to acknowledge the fact that the 15 year old was shot as well while she did not lose her life we're the adults in this situation and that child is only sitting in the hospital because she put her body in front of those bullets for a two-year-old and a one-year-old so when we go to sleep at night we got to know that the only way that child could defend herself was by losing her body using her body and I just we got to think about that as adults like that was her option that was her choice and I don't think any kid should make that choice no five-year-old thought they were not going to kindergarten no 15 year old thought they were not going to have summer break so.
Again not to take away from the comments but every kid didn't lose their life and we got to think about how we surround that young lady as she comes home and transitions back into this community and how we can be supportive thank you if it's nothing else we will move on Commissioners to citizens comments and I have two citizens that signed up to speak Jacqueline Wagstaff if you'll go to the podium dress and also Dewan Langley. Good afternoon chairwoman tarotton commissioners I'm here on behalf of a concern I have as it relates to your boards and your Commissions in the application process some of you have already spoken with about this issue there was a board that it was brought to my attention that it was available it had an opening for the whole month of June well it's a board that I actually sat on at one point some years ago and I wanted to sit on it I want to apply to be considered for it again.
And this time I was very diligent in watching your website so for the whole month of June I continued to click on that website and click on that board the one that I was considered that I was wanted to be considered for when I clicked on the link it said no vacancies available I filled out my application and your link has two ways to submit it has to submit that's after you decide on which board you want to be considered for and it has a save I decided to save I didn't want to submit because that was the only board I was considered that I wanted to be considered for and it was it had No Vacancy so I saved my application on June the 11th on June the 21st the 25th and the 28th I received a automatic generated message from your County website informing me that my application was still in Saving and did I want to submit it well I had no reason to want to submit.
It because each time I clicked on the link that said ABC Board it said no vacancies and there was no other board that I really wanted to be considered for so I left the application and saved until July 1. When I got noticed that y'all were going to have this conversation about making an appointment tonight and I'm saying well that seems impossible when the board didn't have a vacancy that was available on the website so I went ahead and submitted my application now according to your rules I submitted my application after the application process was closed well I'm trying to figure out how was this application process closed when it never showed up on the website and I'm not sure what was showing up here at the county but I know what was showing up on my laptop it said no vacancies and I watched that website from Jan from June 1 until July 1.
And I have the documentation that I think I sent to Chairman Jacobs and I think I sent it to I think it was sent to your manager I think commissioner Burns and so far I'm just asking that you reconsider opening that process back up so there won't be any problems there won't be any concerns because if they say that it was up it wasn't up when I watched and for the be fair and transparent I believe it should be opened back up so that we can have a fair transparent process so I'm just asking for that consideration tonight thank you Miss Wags have Mr attorney Andrews is it appropriate for you to respond to that now or or later which would you prefer well what I've heard is in a statement that would Merit investigation which can be done and it's probably appropriate given that you have a set of facts or alleged we have no way at this moment to validate or to investigate whoops said we'd have to take some time to.
Appropriately look at it whether or not you delay voting you know you have a procedure in place you have several boards that are scheduled to be selected now you certainly have powers within your right to suspend all of that but it's a process that has taken place and it typically goes on an investigation I can't tell you whether that would take anywhere from two business days to a week or more it's just impossible to know given that some of this may involve computer forensics so it could be some time so my recommendation would be that you proceed you investigate and if you find the need to do something differently post investigation that you can take action based on that but you have the authority within your purview but I think an investigation is merited and it would take a little bit of time to do that and then a report would be generated to you that you could act upon in whatever way you felt is prudent could we do one other thing as we.
Proceed I'll go we can go ahead and proceed with a meeting in which you meet with a clerk and have a just a quick conversation with her and then come back to us sure later on in the meeting sure you do that absolutely thank you all right Dewan Langley. Is he on Zoom or please give me one second.
Good evening Madam chair thank you Vice chair Jacobs and members of the board of Board of County Commissioners County manager so well thank you all for this opportunity to speak I just come before you as the chair of the Durham County Juvenile crime prevention Council and wanted to express deep appreciation and gratitude for your recent decision to allocate an additional 105 000 300 toward expanding our annual award amount this generous increase in funding is a testament to your unwavering commitment to the well-being of our community's youth your investment in jcpc showcases a profound understanding of the importance of early intervention and prevention when it comes to addressing juvenile crime by dedicating these additional funds you have reaffirmed your commitment to nurturing a supportive environment that empowers our youth and steers them away from the path of criminality furthermore your decision to increase the award also demonstrates your trust in the jcpc's ability to utilize these resources effectively and efficiently and we also wanted to extend this thanks because we expressed our appreciation to.
Commissioner Burns who serves as Al liaison at our most recent meeting and felt it necessary to come before the board to express our appreciation for this additional allotment so again thank you so very much and we are committed to ensuring transparency and accountability in our operations and we strive to to deliver tangible results that align with our shared goal of a safer and more prosperous Community thank you thank you okay our minutes we have minutes Commissioners for before us for May 22nd 2023 for our regular sessions regular minutes session do we have any edits or comments from those minutes hearing none I get a motion to approve the minutes Madam chair I'd move that we approve our May 22nd regular meeting minutes okay approved voted I gotta vote and a second for approval all in favor aye okay motion is approved five to zero next we have a ceremonial item Let's see we just have we have a couple so the first one is a proclamation 230504 North Carolina senior Tara Hills 30th anniversary celebration.
So the board is re is requested to recognize the North Carolina senior Tar Heel 30th anniversary celebration and I will ask I'll read it myself and then ask Kenneth Valentine which is on the screen if you have some comments so Durham Board of Board of County Commissioners Proclamation North Carolina senior Tar Heels 30 anniversary 2023 whereas the North Carolina senior Tarheel legislature ncsth-l is unique serving as a bipartisan on Carnival body is that announced that by the camera on say it again this is unicameral unicameral okay Body by the North Carolina general assembly in the Senate with passage of Bill 479 in 1993 tasked to identify the most pressing issues facing older adults across the state and proposing legislation that will improve their quality of life and whereas each of North Carolina's 100 counties May appoint delegates and alternates to provide information and education to older adults on the legislature process and matters being considered by the North Carolina General Assembly promote citizen Improvement and advocacy concerning aging issues before the general assembly.
And access the legislature's needs for older adults by convincing convening a form modeled by the general assembly and whereas since its Inception the ncsthl has supported the passage of 11 bills into law and has consistently promoted increased funding for programs supporting the growing population of older adults and their caregivers policies to protect them and whereas Durham County is committed to support the NCS tlhl in engaging and supporting older adults their families and caregivers and to protecting and safeguarding the rights of older individuals and whereas it is appropriate for Durham County to recognize the ncsthl and to celebrate its 30th years 30 years of positive impact on behalf of older adults in North Carolina now therefore I Brenda a Jacobs on behalf of the board of Board of County Commissioners do hereby recognize North Carolina senior Tarheel 30th anniversary in Durham County this the 10th day of July 23. the board of County Commissioners.
Thank you very much I I appreciate all the support and this Proclamation from the board of Board of County Commissioners you know we are hoping to make a positive impact for the quality of life with seniors in Durham County and I'm proud to be a representative for the Durham County at the senior Tarheel legislature thank you so much comments commissioners commissioner Burns how you doing Mr Valentine I'm very well thank you how are you good it is good to see you so I can say I know that all of us at some point have visited the senior center but at this year's 30th at breakfast anniversary Longwood chair Hamilton and vice chair Jacobs we were blessed to be able to come and attend and you all gave an excellent PowerPoint presentation so my comment is not so much for you because you all know to do the advocacy or for the board but it is for the public so if you all have not had the opportunity.
You can go and just Google you know Tar Heel legislation legislature senior senior and North Carolina senior Target legislature and the reason why I would ask you to do that they only made five requests those five requests are not in the budget they are not in any version of the budget the budget is not closed and to see them down there kind of sort of advocate and by themselves we all have a parent somebody that we care about in the neighborhood so I do I'm just going to take two seconds like they asked to allocate an additional eight million dollars for Adult Protective Services now if it got added in today then maybe it's in there but eight million dollars in a 27 billion dollar budget is not a lot to ask for they asked for 8 million in reoccurring funds for the home Community Care block grant they wanted to strengthen Long-Term Care staff and standards and then they also ask for one and a half million dollars for 11 additional Regional.
Long-term care ombudsmans these are very simple requests it's not even 10 million dollars that they asked for in the budget so if you do have somebody that you care about I think it would be great if we could all collectively advocate for some of these ass now if they've been added but on the day that we were there none of these requests were in the in the state but do you start at them but thank you for your work sir it was something added and I'm wrong no okay Mr Valentine thank you yes sir Mr Jacobs well I want you just to Echo what commissioner Burns said first of all thank you so much for your service in this role advocating for seniors all across our state really appreciate the work that you are doing and as commissioner Burns noted unfortunately there is no all of the funding for seniors is basically Federal funding we do not get State funding and I don't ever remember Mr Valentine the amount of money that was allocated for.
Senior centers it was it had not changed in decades do you remember the exact amount yeah it's it's 1 265 thousand dollars one million 265 000 for a hundred counties a hundred counties and it's just it is it is really an insult and an outrage so just I agree that we all need to be aware and and Advocate with our represent Representatives at the state level our senior population is growing and the needs of our seniors are increasing and we do not see the states stepping up to take care of our seniors and so again thank you for the work that the Tar Heels legislative body does to Advocate thank you and thank you for your support decide.
Commissioner Lee yes I also want to say thank you so much for your important work you know I'm I'm moving into the category of senior myself and and there are many many seniors that I love dearly and I also do believe that the the measure of a community is reflected in how we take care of our children and how we take care of our elders so thank you very much for your important advocacy and let us know how we can be supportive of your work and thanks for bringing this Proclamation forward today making us aware more aware of of your role and the work across the state thank you as one of the one of the things that we all have to recognize we're going to either get there are we going to go in a different way we all will be seniors if we're not already or if we if we get there and we're just going to be thankful to get there but thank you so much for your work thank you.
Thank you okay right our next item commissioner is 230470 Durham County government earns seven seven lucky seven seven I like that number Europe said several times maybe I should go play that lottery number there's seven 2023 Naco achievement awards the board is requested to recognize Durham County departments for their role in being named as 2023 National Association of counties Achievement Award winners Naco awards are given in 18 different categories that reflect the vast comprehensive Services counties provide the categories include Children and Youth criminal justice and Public Safety County Administration information technology health Civic engagement and more and I will ask our County Manager to call out the names of those departments that received an award the received an award and ask them to please stand and be recognized yes I'm absolutely delighted to do this so the first award I will call out was to the Board of Elections and I know that the director Derek Bowens couldn't be here but is there anyone here from the Board of Elections.
That was for the delivery management application also our human resources department received an award for our County U program so I will ask our human resources staff to please stand to be recognized and please stay remain standing if you don't mind also our information services and technology department anyone is here from isnt would ask them to stand but they received two awards for the development of a disaster recovery and business continuity plan and also for a managed security awareness service also Economic Development anyone is here from The Economic Development Department thank you so much Mr Andy miracle for the Durham County Business recruitment also register of deeds and I know I saw someone here did he leave yeah ah there you go JT Tavern for hacking into history discovering racial covenants in Durham property deeds and then lastly but certainly not least our library Department is Tim yes for our readable collectible cards so we are certainly certainly proud of the work.
Okay thank you Ms manager for when that comments from commissioners any comments I'll start on this side commission alarm thank you all for all of the work that you guys have been doing for each of these projects and being able to get recognized at the national level especially for projects that are Innovative there are things that your staff have just been looking in and having this passion for this work and they they came out of that and I think that's really really important for all of us to recognize and celebrate and celebrate nationally because it shows how passionate our Durham County employees are that they're not just you know individuals coming in clocking in nine to five and then heading on home this is people who you know are sitting here and thinking what else can I do what else is new that I can do for Durham County and I'm just so grateful that we have this level of talent and Leadership among so many different departments you know that it's an entire.
Thing you'll see across all of Durham County we had seven awards from seven different places so just thank you all for making us look amazing as well and I look forward to seeing the plaques and certificates and when we go to Austin and being able to see these Awards in person okay commissioner Lee yes thanks so much to our staff you know it it takes a lot to do your jobs and then to to to create these Innovative initiatives but then you you know on in addition to that you have to fill out the application and I know that's can be a pain as well thank you all very much for making our services the best that they can be for making our County you know the place where people really want to live I I my my you have my admiration and my gratitude and thank you so much okay on this side commissioner Burns yes I will be really quick just I agree with everything my colleagues said.
But if you have an agenda in front of you there are 18 categories 18 and we hit seven of them if that does not let you okay so yeah we didn't hit 91 50 but when you think about how many counties there are and that's 100 counties in North Carolina there are 3 142 counties in the United States and we swept seven of the awards that's all I got to say y'all are putting in the work y'all make us look good I cannot wait I was in say this but I'ma talk trash the whole time I'm in Travis County and I I just look forward to you know cheering you all on so out of 3142 it is a feat to get one award we got seven out of 18. so you all are superstars are you sure I will just Echo what all of my board members have said again not just that these awards are Innovative but at the end of the day these are way these are all.
Connected to ways that we are improving the quality of life for people in our community and so and it takes an effort it takes effort to apply for these Awards it takes initiative to do that so I just want to encourage our staff to keep keep doing that because also other counties can learn from what we're doing best practices so I appreciate all of you congratulations to all the Departments I also want to give a special shout out to Andy Miracle because that award is actually the only one that we are directly in any way connected to it's related to the our our economic incentive policy that our board adopted which is prioritizing companies that invest in pre-k and child care invest in you know good wages you know transportation and sustainability these are different things that our board has prioritized so Andy I had no idea that you were going to be highlighting one of our adoptive policies and you know the social determinants of Health that we that we.
Look at so thank you for doing that and again congratulations to everybody really appreciate all of you so ditto ditto ditto ditto to all the things that have been said and I want to add one other thing that I've been involved with the National Association of counties for 15 years and I have not heard at any point where any county has gotten that many awards I've not heard it and I also serve in the National counties board of directors so I'm listening for what other counties are getting because I want to know if they get more Awards than we're getting and it I have not heard that so I I think that at the board meeting I'm gonna make sure I lift that up it may put me out but I'm gonna lift it up anyway so again thank you all that participated in making those things happen because it's really important and and in making that happen that's some office awesomest service to the community that you create things that we didn't.
Know that we could do so thank you all anything else for you Mr manager nope I'm just glad to be able to come in and work with these Superstars every day and someone asked me how things were going and if the honeymoon was over and I said the honeymoon is absolutely over but I am still smiling every day that I come in here because it's it's a great marriage it's a great marriage but I will tell you it's a joy to work with our staff with our leaders and our staff they do an amazing job and it makes me proud to come to work every day and spend time serving our community with them so thank you all so much for the opportunity thank you so now we come down to our consent agenda and we have 15 items here that we have already gone over ask questions about this board have pushed back to staff to see if they had any questions about these items there is one item that I'd like to.
Pull 230472 I will just pull that one for now are there any others that any other commissioner would like to pull Madam chair not pool but I did look at 230482 I just want to congratulate the staff with moving forward with the disparity study and that additional work so oh four eight two yes ma'am that's all I know the manager brought it up at a recent meeting and I'm just okay that's all all right so if I can get a motion to approve the items from 230346 down to 23 0496 with an exception of 23 0472 second it's been moved by commissioner Lee second by commissioner alum all in favor aye abstain.
So it's motion passes for four two one Madam chair okay could could we say 4-0 with one extension four with one extension four to zero with one abstention four to zero one extension okay all right thank you so all right so the only thing that I had about for 230472 is a contract approval for lobbying service with McGuire Woods Consulting and I just want to really bring that one highlight that because this is something that we this board has been trying to get done for quite some time so that we have Deborah Craig Ray has been working on this we really want to acknowledge you Deborah for making this happen for for us and that now we will have folks over in Raleigh lobbying for this board and this County to ensure we we have our legislators and our Representatives over there but we needed someone else making sure that they are paying attention to the laws that and keeping us abreast of what's going on because it's a lot happening.
And Deborah couldn't do it all so I just wanted to highlight that for for the community any other comments any comments for you commissioner no I just want to Echo thrilled that we're moving forward with that I look forward to our board sitting down and meeting with the Consultants and I I also I just because this agenda today we we haven't wasn't on a work session there were two other things I wanted to highlight one I wanted to congratulate the sheriff on the award for doing mat with Vivitrol in the jail which is fantastic and also to Crystal Harris for your Grant award and the upcoming conference that's going to be at nccu I hope that the community will in the future you you could bring information back to us maybe at our next meeting about so the community can know about the conference it's going to be an nccu in August so congratulations and thank you okay if it's no other comments on this one you have comment on this one.
The first one that you were discussing about the McGuire Goods Consulting contract yeah yeah I just wanted to add on in Praise to Deborah is that you know I'm really excited that we're moving forward with this contract but also just recognizing acknowledging that before we moved on with this Deborah's been doing the work of this this whole firm is going to be doing Deborah has been doing in her team going and advocating for us and for Durham County in Raleigh which is not the easiest place to go and be an advocate so thank you for having this very very very strong spine that has been fighting for us Deborah I really appreciate it and I know the residents of this County do as well commissioner Lee I just have a quick question about this also a lot of gratitude for you Deborah thank you and I am really thrilled that we're going to have a lobbyist in Raleigh one of the documents lists the Committees that we expect.
To focus on in particular and they all look great it did not mention the environment or education and I feel like those are two areas that we well first of all you know where we need some changed change in some of the legislation especially in education and the environment can be very complicated I assume that if we you know ask or raise concerns that I know they'll be interacting with us regularly and I'm sure they'll be wonderful back and forth feedback going on yes thank you all so much we had a very successful period of interviewing with this company and they had several of their staff responding positively to our questions and certainly there would be no problem if we wanted to certainly add education and environment as a focus for the work they do for us have every confidence that that will happen okay thank you so much Deborah wonderful and and Deborah will we we will probably be meeting with them pretty soon absolutely I'm going to call Johnny.
Tonight yeah yeah and set up a meeting as soon as we all can get together so that we can make sure we're moving down the road positively great thank you the only the only thing the only thing I want to throw on I know for some people they might in Durham I think we operate sometimes in a silo and we pay for a lot of stuff there's a lot of money in Raleigh for a Litany of things and so also recognize that this is just not advocacy for advocacy sake but it is because we want to continue to bring additional Prosperity here and if we can do that with dollars dollars that do not come specifically from our tax base we want to be able to do that and that is one of the reasons why we you know I know I pushed so hard and other folks push so hard you all notice as soon as one person flips their political their political affiliation that's when we saw abortion.
That's when we saw no more permits for guns it's just is it is now a runaway freight train so I just want to say also congratulates congratulations to our assistant County manager but also the willingness and openness to know that we now need to go over there with not a velvet hammer but a big bat and so I can appreciate that I I'm excited that she's going to lead this and I'm excited to see what these ladies are going to gonna ask for so thank you for this thank you we will work doubly hard to get what we can certainly you have some wonderful things in your legislative agenda as always and we will work to make that happen thank you so much Deborah all right if there's nothing else I will ask for a motion to approve 20 230472 so moved the second second okay it's been moved back commissioner who is that Jacobs and second by commissioner alum all in favor aye motion is approved five to zero now we are down to.
Our boards and commissions. Making sure I didn't miss anything we got here so quick we got here so quick it's like okay did I miss something so ma'am chair you have the okay well I received the rest of the ballots I'll talk through an item you wanted me to raise and so I'm gonna do two things at once if I give up ballots okay now earlier you wanted me to try to gather some information about it matter that came up.
During public comment so yeah I went and and did and did that so I think of this this step you have a couple of options and I'll advise you is what I think is probably the most prudent at this time because the boarding commission process is yours you certainly have authority over it it's not regulated by state law it's a Durham County process by published policy it's how that worked you have latitude but you do have a policy that indicates how you identify candidates and select candidates to fill vacancies on boards and commissions based on what I can determine to preliminarily you can move forward with the balloting as we have it scheduled just so for tonight that does not preclude looking into allegations concerns or whatever on any particular balloting or selection or candidacy or any of that for boards commissions those things can still be done but I don't see a reason why you can't proceed just as you had planned to tonight with what's before you that is.
Lawful to do and fine and thus because it's lawful I recommend that you do so we also can look into any issues that are raised but at this stage I don't find an irregularity rise into a say a constitutional level that would preclude you from voting and going forward so I can elaborate on that as much as you would like or if if that's not clear or I could kind of clarify that if there needs to be but I want it to at least arm you or provide you with that read thus far okay thank you attorney it's the pleasure of the board.
I might be in the minority on this I don't have a problem waiting a month I don't but I'm into my door I might be on a minority I don't know but I support our clerk staff I said you know I talked to Monica I've talked to whatever we do tonight I do think there are some things that that need to be tightened up and I've discussed those and I'd be more than happy to discuss those later but we we wait a month on a million other boards I'm not trying to prolong this process but I take the resident that they were so that's just my two cents so is there any consequences for not voting on that committee tonight and being given staff time to researcher to make sure I I know that staff has researched it but is there any is there any problem with us holding off on that one tonight as far as holding it up and voting what does that do to that board.
Okay so you have authority to hold up any particular Board of commission the the bodies typically don't have matters because they are just advisory they aren't regulatory they aren't final decision boards generally there are a couple of exceptions of boards that have certain legal abilities ABC is not one of them so you could hold up any particular individual selection process you don't have to but if you do I think you give staff guidance on what your intention is I mean I can discern that your intention is to you know allow the matter to be looked into and then bring it back if that is what is ultimately moved for and voted upon you don't have to do that but you certainly can and they will be fine okay so so this is my suggestion and the board tell me if they want to go along with it or not so we can hold up on that committee tonight on that board and then bring it back not not re-advertising I'm not asking I'm not.
Recommending that but we bring it back unless there's some some infrequencies there if there's nothing there that we bring it back at our next meeting for a vote the worst Works option for a vote does that work August I think the 24th or 28th it'll be the last meeting of the month if that is the board's pleasure yeah and we bring it back out of the August work section we could yes yeah may I ask for a good vacation so Madam chair you said postponing and not re-advertising so meaning not accepting new applications right okay right so then just wondering then if there's no new applications then what would be the difference like I'm fine with this waiting but just wondering we want to verify that it was done appropriately and I you know I I believe the staff has we just want to make sure that it was that everything is in order and then we bring it back for a vote if it wasn't then there's some other actions to be taken okay.
Okay all right well the board is shaking their head like it's okay so so let's move ahead with that is that okay with the attorney yes ma'am all right okay you'll give us the the other Rundown so being that that's the case will hold off down scene ABC control board for the bicycle end pedestrian advisory committee. Just one second hopefully I was trying to do two things at once I want to verify that I got all my votes in. Three. One second here's the tabulation that needs to happen.
Okay okay for the bicycle and pedestrian advisor committee the selected person is Andres Otero for the Department of Social Services Board a second there too.
Select a person's Charles Mitchell.
For the Durham County I'm sorry the Durham Convention Center Authority the selected person is laurente Bryant for the Durham Workforce Development board selected persons and the I'm sorry Andrew miracle for a juvenile crime prevention Council citizen slot the selected persons are Kevin McIver Leah selvey Jonathan Wilson John Morris and labria Stevens foreign for the juvenile crime prevention council member of the faith community to select a person's Renee Hill for the United for the United Way our other non-profit category the select a person is Lisa Jones for the library Board of Trustees the vote for five at large positions are Aquarius Anderson Miranda Strobel tal Madeline Jen McConnell and Carl Newman those are the five for the Raleigh Durham Airport Authority the selected person is David Morgan so that concludes the boarding commissions tonight except for the one that we held which is ABC thank you attorney Andrews and congratulations to all of the citizens that were selected tonight we do appreciate your service serving on these boards we have an awful lot of boys that.
Would need support on so thank you and congratulations right is there any other business that this Board needs to handle tonight. Nobody's saying it's awfully quiet tonight oh my gosh so if not then I will.
Ask for a motion to adjourn and wishing everybody a great couple of weeks so we take a few weeks off for the rest of the month of July in our next meetings will be the first of August so we are excited to be going to our conference so we don't when we say we've taken weeks off it's not weeks off because we're headed to our conference a national conference and thank you for being here this evening and a motion to adjourn don't move it's been moved by commissioner alarmsack by commissioner Burns all in favor aye we are adjourned.