Durham, N.C. – The Durham Board of
County Commissioners (BOCC) met in a Regular Session Meeting on Monday, July 26
at 7p.m. and considered an agenda that included the following highlights:
The BOCC
honored the Bull City Slam Team, a poetry/spoken
word team that won the team competition section of the 18th
Annual South Fried Poetry Slam 2010 hosted in Knoxville, Tennessee. The team, sponsored by the St. Joseph’s
Historic Foundation, accepted a resolution from the Board that congratulated
their recent top honors. Team member Kane Smego provided the BOCC
with a sample of poetry/spoken word.
The team will compete in the Poetry Slam Inc’s National Poetry Slam in
St. Paul, Minnesota in early August.
The BOCC held
a public hearing on the 751 Assemblage.
Prior to the public hearing, that included more than 70 speakers, the
BOCC heard a presentation from the Durham City-County Planning Department that
described their analysis of the application for the project. The staff from the City-County Planning
Department recommended that the BOCC approve the 751 Assemblage project based on
its consistency with the Comprehensive Plan, Unified Development Ordinance and
considering the information identified in the Zone Map Change Report. The county attorney requested additional
time to examine a recently received Declaration of Revocation, Rejection and
Termination of Easement to Dedicate Right of Way from the North Carolina
Department of Transportation before the BOCC voted on the project. The BOCC agreed to continue the
discussion on the 751 Assemblage at the next BOCC Regular Session Meeting on
Monday, August 9.
The BOCC did
not complete all items on the July 26 agenda at their Regular Session
Meeting. The BOCC will address the
unvisited items at a special meeting on
Thursday, July 29 at 7 p.m.:
- Resolution calling for a November 2, 2010 Durham County
Special Referendum on Levying a ¼ cent County Sales and Use Tax
- Board and Commission Appointments
- Items Pulled from Consent Agenda
To view the
agenda and recording of the July 26 BOCC Regular Session Meeting, visit the
BOCC’s Web site. For more
information about BOCC meetings, contact the Clerk to the
Board's Office at 919-560-0025 or email clerk@durhamcountync.gov.
