HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 02-17-2003-9d2ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: February 17, 2003
Action Agenda
Item No. 9 -c~-a
SUBJECT: Agricultural Preservation Board
DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (YiN) No
ATTACHMENT(S): Under Separate Cover:
Membership Roster
Memo Regarding Don Johnson's
Application for a Seat and Composition
of the Ag. Board
Excerpts from the Orange County Voluntary
Farmland Preservation Program
Ordinance
Application/Resume of Donald N. Johnson
INFORMATION CONTACT:
Clerk's Office, ext. 2130, 2125, 2126, 2129
TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
Hillsborough 245-2130
Chapel Hill 968-4501
Durham 688-7331
Mebane 336-227-2031
PURPOSE: To consider making one appointment to the Agricultural Preservation Board (Ag.
Board) to the Bacon-Johnson Voluntary Agricultural (VA) District.
BACKGROUND: The Agricultural Preservation Board shall consist of up to seven (7) At-Large
members plus one member for each District created and existing under this Ordinance, all
appointed by the Board of County Commissioners.
Four new VA Districts have been approved in the past couple of years, with the total now at
nine (9). Not all the owners of farms designated as a VA District or in a VA District have applied
or wish to serve on the Ag. Board. See explanatory notes on the chart following.
Donald N. Johnson, the owner of the farm comprising the Bacon-Johnson VA District, has
applied for a seat on the Ag. Board.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: None
RECOMMENDATION(S): Consider appointing Donald N. Johnson to the Bacon-Johnson Farm
VA District, for a term in accordance with Section IV.B.2 of the Orange County Voluntary
Farmland Preservation Program Ordinance.