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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">March Delegate Meeting </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Attending the meeting were:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Neighborhoods</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Burch Avenue – Richard Ziglar</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Cross Counties – Pat Carstensen, Ed Harrison</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Long Meadow – Pakis</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#212121;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0"> Bessias</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Morehead Hill – Bruce Mitchell </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Old North Durham – Mimi O’Brien </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Watts Hospital Hillandale – Tom Miller, Sherri Zann Rosenthal
(non-delegate)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Derek Bowens – Durham County, Director of Elections</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">President Bonita Green called the meeting to order and welcomed
everyone; those present introduced themselves. There were no adjustments to the agenda.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">The Durham County Board of
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Elections</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0"> has
5 members; they appoint a director, Derek Bowens. For 2023, there is a primary on October 10 and general election on November 7, electing three at-large Council members and the mayor. Voters will be allowed to do write-ins. Durham County is getting new
ADA-compliant equipment to replace the aging Automarks, and will possibly need to implement voter ID requirements (but probably not given time to get implementation in line). There may also be some district adjustments, with new boundaries for US House and
NC House and Senate, depending on what the NC Supreme Court decides. There have been some precinct changes, splitting some really big precincts and consolidating 2 smaller ones. Some other precincts are close to the maximum size we would like to see so we
may be splitting them in the future. We typically see turn-out percentages in the teens to mid-twenties in municipal elections, which is much smaller than in even years. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Mimi Kessler moved to approve the February minutes as written,
Mimi O’Brien seconded, and this passed.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">It took 12 meetings for the subcommittee to get through the
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Simplifying Codes for Affordable Development</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0"> (SCAD)
proposed revisions to the UDO, analyzing what is wrong, or confusing, or promising about it. Members of the subcommittee went to Council work session, which wasn’t all that friendly to citizen involvement but our comments helped Council to start to understand
how complicated the proposal was and they agreed to postpone the hearing until May 1. Jillian Johnson wasn’t there and pushed to have the hearing anyhow as scheduled this month, but this was voted down (barely). Today members of the subcommittee presented
to the Coalition on Affordable Housing, and have been speaking to other groups. The subcommittee has been amazing in what they have done. There are definitely some ruffled feathers on Council and in the development community. Unfortunately, because of the
mandated process for developer-initiated proposals to change the UDO, Council cannot pick and choose parts of the SCAD to adopt; they have to either approve it or vote it down. If there are good parts to the proposal, Council can vote the proposal down and
then ask Planning to develop UDO amendments that incorporate these good ideas. We might want to do a community forum, post information on the website or otherwise get information to the public. We also need to take an official position on the SCAD. After
much discussion of variations on a resolution, Steven moved and Mimi Kessler seconded the following motion:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#131619;background-color:#e7f1fd;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Based on our report of March 8, INC opposes the proposed SCAD changes to the UDO.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">We will have a special meeting on Tuesday April 11, at 7
PM, to conduct a vote. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Burch Avenue had a mediator to lead a discussion on National Night Out, though they haven’t decided what to do about the event.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Leesville Road Coalition had a food drive for Fort Bragg (which is becoming Fort Liberty), where there is food insecurity of 25%.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Durham Neighborhoods United is hopeful about better outcomes on party house issues, with new Duke person and Sgt. Wagstaff from
the Police Department.</span></p>
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Mayor O’Neill will be at the April meeting.</span></p>
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