Notice to people with impaired hearing: Interpreter services and/or special equipment are available with five days prior notice. Please contact the Communications and Public Affairs Department at 968-2743 for services.

Notice to citizens who wish to speak: Citizens may petition the Council regarding matters germane to Town policies or business but not appearing on the agenda at petition time. The Council strongly discourages petitions regarding a matter that recently has been, or soon will be before the Council as a public hearing item. Petition time is not intended to substitute for public hearings. As a courtesy to others, a citizen speaking on an agenda item or making a petition is normally limited to three minutes. Persons who are organizing a group presentation and who wish to speak beyond the three minute limit are requested to make prior arrangements through the Mayor’s Office by calling 968-2714. If you wish to address the Council this evening, please go to the front right corner of the Council Chamber and sign up with the Town Clerk. The Council may change the order in which agenda items are presented.

Public Hearings: Presentations for Concept Plans will be limited to 15 minutes.

Attorneys: If you are representing a person with an interest in a quasi-judicial proceeding on this agenda and believe you may wish to cross examine a witness, please identify yourself as such to the Town Clerk. For the sake of maintaining an accurate public record all speakers must be prepared to speak into an amplified microphone and must provide their name to the Town Clerk.

Agenda items for review: Agenda items are available on the Town’s web site, www.townofchapelhill.org, by 12 noon on Friday before a Council meeting. Citizens may request copies of agenda items in the Communications and Public Affairs Office at 968-2743 or may view them at the Reference Desk in the Chapel Hill Public Library (100 Library Drive).

Cablecast of Council Meetings: Council meetings are cablecast live on Chapel Hill TV18, the cable government access channel, and via streaming video at www.townofchapelhill.org (see link to “Council Meeting Video”). Generally, the meetings also are rebroadcast throughout the week.They also are cablecast on Durham Cable Vision Channel 8 at 1 p.m. on the Friday following the Council meeting.

Monday, November 3, 2008

7:00 p.m.

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Town Council Special Meeting

  1. Council Consideration of applicants for Town Council Member vacancy.

    1. Introductions and Opening Remarks and Process.  Mayor Kevin Foy

    2. Candidate Presentations (time for presentations will be limited based on the number of candidates; it is anticipated that the time for each presentation will be not less than five minutes per candidate and not more than ten minutes per candidate.) 

      Presentations Made

      1. William R. Abb (PDF)
      2. Amy Chute (PDF)
      3. J. M. Green, Ph.D. (PDF)
      4. Loren Hintz (PDF)
      5. James Merritt (PDF)
      6. Gene Pease (PDF)
      7. Will Raymond (PDF)
      8. Willard Blaine Rogers (PDF)
      9. Donald Shaw (PDF)
      10. Andre’ J. Wesson (PDF)
    3. Council Nominations 

    4. Closing Comments.  Mayor Kevin Foy

  2. Closed Session (tentative).