HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 10-15-2013-11bORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: October 15, 2013
Action Agenda
Item No. 11 -b
SUBJECT: Orange Dog Poets Society —Appointment
DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No
ATTACHMENT(S): Under Separate Cover
Request Letter
INFORMATION CONTACT:
Clerk's Office, 245 -2130
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PURPOSE: To consider making an appointment of a Commissioner as a representative to the
Orange Dog Poets Society's Poet Laureate selection committee.
BACKGROUND: The following appointment is for Board consideration:
• Appointment of a Commissioner to the Orange Dog Poets Society's Poet Laureate
selection committee.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: None
RECOMMENDATION(S): The Board will consider making an appointment to the Orange Dog
Poets Society.
February 25, 2013
Friends of Poetry
Every two years a Poet Laureate for Hillsborough and Orange County is selected. The term of
the curre t Poet Laureate will expire in Agri12014. The Orange Dog Poet Society will be
forming a committee to select a new Poet Laureate. The goal is to select a committee that is
representative of a cross section of Hillsborough and Orange County.
The Orange Dog Poet Society is inviting the Orange County Board of Commissioners to select a
member of the Board to represent the Orange County Board on the Poet Laureate selection
committee. If the Orange County Board chooses to select a representative for the Committee,
please contact Frank A. Doonan at shunygdra m ex gmail.coln or David Hardt at
candd hardt(ci. embarcimail.com before November 15, 2013. You may also respond by mail to the
following address:
Frank A. Doonan
611 Harper Road
Hillsborough, NC
27278
In ce of tlr oe f illsborouglr and Orange County
rank A. Doonan