m. on November the 13 2023 this is our board meeting County Commissioner's board meeting and I will Begin by reading the public charge the Board of Commissioners ask 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 failed to observe this public charge the chair will ask the offending person to leave the meeting until that individual regains personal control should the quum fail to be restored the chair will recess the meeting until such time that a genuine commitment to the public charge is observed I think I'll start on this side
commissioner Burns would you leave us in the Pledge of Allegiance please I pledge allegiance to the flag the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liy justice for all are there Commissioners are there any agenda adjustments car none we'll move on to our announcements and our clerk Miss Wallace will read our announcements for us good evening I will read the announcements published in tonight's agenda the Durham County Sheriff's Office in partnership with project safe neighborhoods is hosting a Durham County gun buyback event at two separate locations on
m. m. staff will be on hand at Durham County Memorial Stadium in the visitors parking lot and at the Mount Vernon Baptist church located at 10:07 South Roxboro street you may turn in any working gun for cash long gun $100 handgun $150 and assault rifle $200 with no questions asked our weapons must be unloaded and laid in plain view in your vehicle you will then be directed on what to do next by law enforcement local startups and entrepreneurs looking for a way to develop and test their products and services are invited to apply for the 2023 innovate durm program but hurry the deadline is Sunday November 19th the city county partnership allows entrepreneurs to learn to use local government as a laboratory to test products and ideas there is a link to learn more and
m. m. the event the event at the Durham Convention Center which is located at 301 West Morgan Street will feature a screening of the documentary it's basic followed by a panel discussion on the impacts of guaranteed income it will
gov Medicaid expansion is here and our social services department is preparing to serve the estimated 22,000 new clients in Durham that will apply for Medicaid the simplest and quickest way for new applicants to apply is to visit EP pass. gov for those adults 19 through 64 years of age who wish to learn more about Medicaid expansion you can also visit a link which is on our site as well and in the agenda packet in addition to signing up for Medicaid online you may visit the Durham County offices the at the human resources building um which which is located at 4:14 East Main Street in downtown Durham to apply as well open enrollment for the
gov did you know Durham County is developing a new strategic plan the new plan will serve as the road mapap for the next 5 years for Durham County government your voice matters and we want to be sure to get your feedback throughout the process share your voice today there there are
gov for additional information and to apply as well and that includes the announcements in the
agenda thank you very much Miss Wallace um so I wanted I I wanted to make sure that we wish everybody a happy holidays this is the last meeting we will have before our holidays just wishing everyone a wonderful happy holiday and a safe one um and are there any other announcements from commissioners okay commissioner Burns M I have two that are really quick one is just a special shout out I know I've been pushing the Fidelity Investment scholarship um pretty pretty hard I did want to let folks know that I found out from Fidelity that thus far the majority of the applications have been from North Carolina and the majority of those have been for Durham so let's keep that going because again last dollar scholarships $250 million we want our kids to get access to those dollars I want to also so I I don't know if we got that when I
m. so all 57 of our schools including our new Murray massenberg and last but not least for the next two days um you know I I do love mayor Elaine O'Neal um she is she is working to her last day which is what a true public servant does while everyone else is taking breaks uh she actually does have a Bull City business Summit that is coming up it is this week and it is the 16th and the 17th it is free registration is free I think we sent it out on our um I think we sent it out um on excuse me I know the man I sent it out the manager sent it out on her newsletter but idea for the public this event is tailored for aspiring entrepreneurs including seniors justce involved individuals and those with disabilities so again they're doing a a Bull City business Summit because they see all the work I think they jealous
cuz they seeing all the great work that we're doing over here at the county and all the great work that Tammy's been able to do and I I and other folks have been able to support but if you can um please go and support um hers she's calling resilience and reinvention in Durham so it'll be a great two-day conference is free there's food and there will be a lot of different sessions so if you know a buting entrepreneur looking for uh a way to plug into the city this is a great opportunity to do so thank Mr Jacobs and just to Pony piggyback on that I'm not sure if you said the location which is uh our library our main library so that's a great partnership with Durham County um and um I just wanted to add to the announcements um that the Durham County Community paramedics and Durham County Public Health is providing flu blue and coid vaccines for homebound people and
m. m. and our community paramedics will come to your home to provide you with vaccinations so this is a wonderful service to people in our community that we want to make sure people know about thank you commissioner L thank you chair Haron I didn't have an announcement I did want to just uh request an excused absence for our next uh regular session on the 27th okay so moved okay this been moly
second all in favor I motion approved 5 to zero okay um any other announcements okay I do have oh see was it one other one one other one that I have is and uh I have not had an opportunity to talk to the manager about it but I was at the pack four and five meeting on Saturday and there were a lot of questions about our tax assessment and what I said to them was I didn't want to fake it and try to answer questions that I'm I wasn't there to answer so at some point we I'd love to have a conversation with our assessor to attend um the pack four meeting and probably some of the other pack meetings as well to start those conversations so that because they were asking questions
about their how they pay their taxes and all that so I think it would be good for to have him maybe show up at some of those meetings we talk about timing all right if there's no other announcements we will move on to cemon items um I have one 23843 recognition of the family caregiver month uh 2023 Proclamation and this one is signed by Governor Roy Cooper and I wanted to read that and include that tonight state of North Carolina Roy Cooper Governor family caregiver month 2023 by the governor of the state of North Carolina a proclamation whereas more than 358,000 residents in our state are attending to the needs of or concerns of
a person with short or long-term limitations due to injury or disability and are therefore caregivers and whereas the number of older adults who will need assistance with daily activ activities is growing substantially each year including an expected 50% increase in these in those over the age of 65 and 114% over the age of 85 in the next two decades and whereas North Carolina's caregivers remain diverse in their characteristics circumstances they share a common goal of keeping their loved one in their community of choice and benefit from the assurance that the business Faith medical and Human Service communities
can assist with information and services when needed and whereas there are numerous individuals communities and public and private organizations working to increase public awareness of the unique needs of children in foster care placed with kinship care providers and of the enduring and valuable contributions they make contributions made by kinship families and whereas the North Carolina division of aging and adult Services the area agencies on aging and many other local agencies are committed to increasing the awareness Wess of caregivers needs and continue to work toward meeting these needs and whereas the state of North Carolina encourages people to acknowledge and support family friends and neighbors who help those who are
aging or have disabilities support a family caregivers in the right thing to do and an essential investment in a better future for North Carolina older adults and individuals with disabilities now therefore I Roy Cooper governor of North Carolina do hereby Proclaim November 2023 as family caregiver month in North Carolina and commend its servants to all citizens Roy Cooper Governor as we that is for all of North Carolina and we have that in durm as well yes uh Madam chair I just want to make sure we approve the minutes um I I will just I wanted to read that and then I'll go back to that okay okay um and I just wanted to comment on the pro the
1 billion worth of unpaid care that people are providing so uh it it is a serious problem uh that we have that people are doing this work and are really not getting uh the proper support for it so um definitely want to lift up the the work and the value and the care that people are sacrificing for their family members thank you thank
you um and it was it was good to get that Proclamation um that the governor has written I'm sorry go ahead M thank you I just wanted to say since we were having this um Proclamation tonight and thank you for bringing it Forward chair Howton um it motivated me to go online and see what sorts of family caregiver supports are available in Durham um and it was very easy to to Google do a Google search for family caregiver and a lot of information comes up from the Duram Center for Senior Life their website is just full of information it's very easy to navigate they have a whole page on family caregiver support services so that's fantastic um and this really is important because it's probable that all of us will either need a family caregiver or will be a family caregiver
so what you said Wendy's right we really do need to figure out as a country how to how to support um people that are providing that kind of care and probably working a full-time job too so thanks for bringing it Forward you're welcome you know uh when you think of uh Senior Citizen Center um there was um a young man at the pack for meeting that really talked about all the different things that's offered at the senior center um from giving out giving away food um bags of food to you have to be a member member and when you and the way you become a member you just register you can go in that day and register and you can get food pick up food that day and the senior citizen offer a lot uh he went down a list of things that they offer so anyone that's interested that's listening tonight all I have to do is go online and see all the different things
that they offer it's a lot yeah and there there's a lot of fun things that offer too a lot of fun classes yeah and such yeah yeah yeah commissioner Alone um I just want to highlight I know this uh Proclamation it speaks a lot about you know our older and aging Community but also wanting to recognize that it's not just individuals who are becoming Caregivers for aging individuals and I don't want to put her on the spot but also just highlight and recognize that we have our own colleague that is a family caregiver um and thank her for her service for uh commissioner Burns has that very difficult job of being a family caregiver and knowing that it's you know you don't realize how common it is that people step up for this role and often times don't have a choice um so I'm really grateful that Governor Cooper introduced this Proclamation and also recognizing that it's not just you know aging individuals
but anyone can be faced with the need to have a full-time caregiver yeah and thank you for that I think he mentions that in the in the proclamation that it it is you don't have to be any particular age but he really pointed out seniors and aging adults that seems to be the prominent age that he was alluding to so um and I'm sure we could pull out a lot more information out of that and do and Google as well so thank you all uh we will move on to our we have minutes for 2304 0842 we have our October 23rd 2023 regular minutes are there any edits any uh additions to the minutes hearing n you have no I'm just
moving for approval okay as motion second second moved in properly second all in favor five I okay motion passes 5 to zero now we have our consent agenda and we have I think I counted them around 23 items are there any items Commissioners that um and these are are items for the public that we have gone over during our work session um are there any items that Commissioners would like to pull for more discussion hearing none I'll ask for motion to approve so moved been moved by commissioner Alum second by commissioner Carter all in favor I agenda a agenda passes 5 to
Z so are there any other items that needs to come before this board tonight any other business for the good of the board hearing none I'll ask for a motion to adjourn so moved second it's been moved and properly so can all in favor I we are jour [Laughter] I'm sorry