HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 09-16-2014-13 (2)INFORMATION ITEM
BOCC Advisory Board Appointees Work Session
MEMORANDUM
Date: September 16, 2014
To: Orange County Board of Commissioners
From: Thom Freeman, Assistant to the Clerk
Orange County Board of Commissioners
ORANGE COUNTY
NORTH CAROLINA
RE: Annual Work Session For Appointees to External Advisory Boards
In March of 2014, a request was sent to current representatives serving on External Advisory
Boards. In this request, individuals who had been appointed by the BOCC to External Advisory
Boards were asked to attend a Work Session with the BOCC. The offer was extended to those
representatives to present to the BOCC updates on the activities of their particular Advisory
Board and ask questions of the BOCC regarding areas of concern as it related to their Advisory
Board. Although attendance was sparse, the discussion was productive and helpful. Moving
forward, an annual meeting was deemed a good idea to pursue and ask representatives for
the same sort of input. The representatives will be encouraged to attend, but may also submit
their thoughts and concerns in writing to share at the Work Session.
A date and time has not been scheduled at this time.
Orange County Planning Department Orientation of BOCC Appointed
Planning Board Members to Municipal Boards
1. County Overview — (Population, Socio Economic, Geography etc.)
2. Background of county representation on municipal planning boards (NC Statutes)
3. Orange County Comprehensive Plan (Countywide Data Element) (includes
various elements; land use; housing, etc.)
4. County Land Use `Master Plan' for development and preservation
a. Land Use Plan- Urban -Rural
b. Watersheds
c. Water and Sewer Boundary Agreement
d. Small Area Plans (SAP) & Town focus or study areas (specific lists given to
remain current)
5. Coordinated and Joint Planning Efforts among Orange County and the
towns /cities
a. Orange County /Chapel Hill /Carrboro Joint Planning Area (JPA) Agreement
and Plan
b. Orange County /Town of Hillsborough
1. Strategic Growth Plan
2. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
3. Courtesy Review
4. Coordinated Land Use Plan
c. Orange County /City of Mebane Utility Agreement and Courtesy Review
d. Orange County /City of Durham Utility Agreement and Courtesy Review
e. Durham - Chapel Hill- Orange County (DCHC) Work Group
6. Transportation Planning
a. Durham /Chapel Hill /Carrboro (DCHC) Metropolitan Planning Organization
(M PO)
b. Burlington /Graham (BG) MPO
c. Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan (OC BRIP) (Bus /Light Rail)
7. BOCC Focused Goals (i.e. topics- environmental responsibility, green energy,
etc.) (includes annual legislative goal agenda)
Links /CDs to various documents will be provided 4116114
To All External Board Members Appointed By The Board of County Commissioners (BOCC):
In a follow up to the April 10, 2014 BOCC Meeting where all of the BOCC appointees to external boards
and commissions were invited to attend and share their thoughts, experiences and /or suggestions on how
to build a better stream of communication. This involves communications between Orange County based
Boards and Commissions, and the External Advisory Boards, which share a common purpose. The
Commissioners feel that this is imperative to the goals they hope to achieve. That goal is to share what
our responsibilities are an how we can work together for the common good.
With this in mind, the Clerk to the Board's Office will be coordinating some building tools, with the
existing support staff in our departments, such as, adding External Advisory Board members appointed by
the BOCC to email groups setup by Orange County based boards ( for agendas, minutes, etc.).
Getting pertinent information directly to each of you, will aid you in sharing information where overlaps
may occur. The real focus of the External Advisory Board members appointed by the BOCC, is to make
the connection between how the county boards are functioning and feeding that information to the
community based boards and vice versa. Each of you may also be asked to attend the same "New Board
Member" orientation given to the appropriate Orange County based Board; or to set up individual
sessions /discussions to bring you all up to speed with what the county is doing on a particular board or
commission.
As we all know, there is a fair amount of crossover between what your community based Advisory Board
focuses on compared to that of the County Advisory Board. It is where the overlaps exist that your
knowledge and understanding of both groups will help pull information to common ground.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call and the contact numbers are below for individual
County departments
Orange County Planning:
Perdita Holtz — 919 - 245 -2578
Tina Love — 919 - 245 -2575
Orange County Parks & Rec
David Stanci I — 919 - 245 -2522
Rich Shaw — 919 - 245 -2514
Orange County Adjustment
Craig Benedict - 919 - 245 -2592
Debra Graham
Orange County Public Library
Lucinda Munger- 919 - 245 -2528
Andrea Tullos — 919 - 245 -2529