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MINUTES
ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MEETING TO DISCUSS SEARCH FIRMS
March 30, 2006
5:30 p.m.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners met to discuss potential search firms for
the Orange County Manager search on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. at the
Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs, Vice-Chair Stephen
Halkiotis and Commissioners Valerie P. Foushee, and Alice Gordon
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Commissioners Moses Carey, Jr.
COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: Deputy Clerk to the Board David Hunt
NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE
PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE.
The meeting began at 6:00 p.m
The Orange County Board of Commissioners met to discuss the County Manager
search process and the selection criteria for potential search firms.
Each member of the Board had previously submitted aone-page listing of search
process components. Each member of the Board had previously received and reviewed
the submitted comments from each of their peers.
Commissioner Jacobs announced that Anita Badrock with "Smither & Associates, Inc."
withdrew from consideration due to time constraints.
All Board members agreed their lists of the search process were on comparable paths.
The Board discussed key aspects of the remaining two firms, "The Mercer Group, Inc."
and "Stavin Management Consultants".
A motion was made by Commissioner Halkiotis, seconded by Commissioner Foushee to
accept "The Mercer Group, Inc." as the search firm for selecting the County Manager.
VOTE: UNANIMOUS
The Chair agreed to call both firms after the meeting to inform them of he Board's
decision.
The Board discussed possible dates to meet with Mercer to define the search process.
It was agreed that the meeting would take at least two or three hours.
A motion was made by Commissioner Foushee, seconded by Commissioner Halkiotis to
add a closed session to this evening's agenda.
VOTE: UNANIMOUS
A motion was made by Commissioner Halkiotis, seconded by Commissioner Foushee to
go into closed session at 6:35 p.m.: "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;" NCGS 143-318.11 {a}(6}.
VOTE: UNANIMOUS
The Deputy Clerk did not stay for the closed session and the Chair took minutes of the
closed session.
The meeting ended at 7:05 p.m.
Barry Jacobs, Chair
David Hunt
Deputy Clerk to the Board