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Chatham County · Board of Commissioners
Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 6:00 pm · Historic Courthouse Courtroom

Regular meeting Appointments and personnelArts and public artHistoric preservationIntergovernmental agreementsRoads and transportation

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What was decided

  1. Approved APPROVAL OF SPECIAL SESSION AGENDA approved · Pass · A motion was made by Vice Chair Katie Kenlan, seconded by Commissioner Amanda Robertson, that the special meeting agenda was approved. The motion carried by the…
  2. Approved 25-0054Vote to appoint or reappoint board members to State and Regional Boards approved · Pass · A motion was made by Commissioner Amanda Robertson, seconded by Commissioner Franklin Gomez Flores, that the appointments to state and regional boards as recomme…
  3. Received 25-0055Receive a presentation and discuss George Moses Horton signs received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.

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What's on this agenda

Chatham County's commissioners met in special session on 30 January 2025 to finish work the weather had cut short nine days earlier. They made their appointments to state and regional boards and settled on a plan for signs honoring George Moses Horton.

The 2022 resolution asked for honorary designation signs along the whole 22.5 miles of US 15-501 in the county. State rules cap an honorary designation at five miles and require the person to have died within the last 75 years, which the poet, who died around 1883, has not.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

Four commissioners attended and every vote carried 4-0.

The appointments span the regional bodies: the vice chair as delegate to the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization with the chair as alternate, the chair to the community college trustees and to Triangle West, Commissioner Robertson as delegate to Central Pines and to the rural planning organization, Commissioner Gomez Flores to the local emergency planning committee and the Research Triangle Regional Partnership, and the chair with the social services director to the Vaya Health regional board.

On the signs, the county manager traced the history: a 2021 resolution asked to rename the whole highway and for Pittsboro to rename Hillsboro Street, and a 2022 resolution replaced that with an honorary designation and signs. Emergency management then found the state's five-mile limit and the 75-year rule, so a waiver would be needed and the family's agreement with it. The alternative offered was welcome signs at each end of the county, designed with the transportation department and paid for by the county. The board took that route, and adopted the resolution for the two signs on 16 June.

The manager reported that the executive order freezing federal funding had staff checking department by department for what it touches, and that House Bill 24 on downzoning had been filed that day.

How the votes went

The agenda, the state and regional board appointments, and adjournment all carried 4-0.

From the published minutes.

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Agenda items (11)

Procedural · 5Staff or committee report · 3Other · 1Appointment · 1Presentation · 1
  1. Special Session - 6:00 PM - Historic Courthouse Courtroom
    Procedural Appointments and personnelIntergovernmental agreements
    Appointments to the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, the community college trustees, Central Pines Council of Governments and its aging and nursing home committees, Triangle West, the state emergency planning committee, the rural planning organization, the Research Triangle Regional Partnership, and the Vaya Health regional board.
  2. INVOCATION and PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
    Procedural Arts and public artHistoric preservationRoads and transportation
    The 2022 resolution asked for honorary designation signs along 22.5 miles of US 15-501, but the state caps such a designation at five miles and requires the person to have died within 75 years. Staff offered welcome signs at each end of the county instead, designed with the transportation department and paid for by the county, and the board asked for that resolution.
  3. CALL TO ORDER
    Procedural
  4. APPROVAL OF SPECIAL SESSION AGENDA
    Other
    approved · Pass · A motion was made by Vice Chair Katie Kenlan, seconded by Commissioner Amanda Robertson, that the special meeting agenda was approved. The motion carried by the following vote:
  5. BOARD PRIORITIES
    Procedural
  6. 25-0054 Vote to appoint or reappoint board members to State and Regional Boards
    Appointment
    approved · Pass · A motion was made by Commissioner Amanda Robertson, seconded by Commissioner Franklin Gomez Flores, that the appointments to state and regional boards as recommended was approved. The motion carried by the following vote:
  7. 25-0055 Receive a presentation and discuss George Moses Horton signs
    Presentation
    received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
  8. CLERK'S REPORT
    Staff or committee report
  9. MANAGER’S REPORT
    Staff or committee report
  10. COMMISSIONERS’ REPORTS
    Staff or committee report
  11. ADJOURNMENT
    Procedural
    adjourned · Pass · A motion was made by Commissioner Franklin Gomez Flores, seconded by Vice Chair Katie Kenlan, that the meeting was adjourned. The motion carried by the following vote:

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