Remarks by Michael Lee
115 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 5
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“good evening everyone packed house tonight tonight is Monday October 12th this is our regular session our first regular session for the month of October and we will start I'm gonna read the public charge in the land acknowledgement and then I'll ask Commissioner Jacobs to lead us in the pledge okay all right and then we'll get moving here The Board of Commissioners asks its members and residents to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner. both with the board and fellow residents. At any time should any member of the board or resident fail to observe this public charge, the chair…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“All opposed, please use the same sign. Pass unanimously. Next item on our agenda, the agenda adjustments. Agenda adjustment. Are there any changes to the agenda? If not, I'll accept a motion to accept the agenda as presented.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“It's been moved and properly seconded. We approve the agenda as presented. All in favor say aye.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“All opposed, please use the same sign. Passes unanimously again. Next item on our agenda are the announcements. Clerk Wallace.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“Thank you, Clerk Wallace. Next item on our agenda is the, I'm sorry, additional announcements from commissioners.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“All right, thank you. And I do apologize. I had... On my other computer, I make notes on my agenda, and I had to do a moment of silence before we started our meeting for Firefighter Andrew Broker. So as we get into the meat of the meeting, I would call for a moment of silence for Firefighter Andrew Broker. thank you all right next item on our agenda is the approval of the minutes dated september 28th 2026 our regular session i move that we approve the minutes from september 28 2026. second It's been moved and properly seconded. We approve the minutes dated September 28th, 2026. Any further…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“All opposed, please use the same sign. Passes unanimously. Next item on our agenda is the consent agenda. We have one item that needs to be pooled for two public comments. And that is, it's actually the last item on the agenda. consent agenda, which is 260538. That is the approval of the property tax releases and refunds for September 2026.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“So we're pulling 0538, 0525, and 0530. Is that what you said? Yes. Yes, that's correct. All right, let me see. not the uh early childhood okay so we will do the agenda consent agenda approval absent the items zero five two five zero five well let me just make the motion so i'll accept the motion to approve the consent agenda with the removal of items 0525, 0530, and 0538. So moved.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“All right. There's a motion on the floor. It's been properly seconded. Any further discussion? All in favor, say aye.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“All opposed, please use the same sign. passes unanimously so the items we will let's do the one with the public comment first get it out of the way and then at the end we'll do a motion to approve the three items all at the same time okay all right so the item that has the public comment is 26 0 5 3 8 we have two public comments we'll do three minutes each We have Randy Cohen and then Pablo Friedman.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“Oh, yeah. There are some challenges with that. It's not gospel. I don't know. Yeah. Okay. Were you going to say something?”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“All right. Go ahead. I'm going to go to Commissioner Burton first and then I'll come back in.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“All right, the next item that was pulled was 0525, and that is the budget ordinance amendment. Commissioner Jacobs, you wanted to pull that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“Okay. Okay, so that's 0525. The next item that was pulled off was 260530, and that is the approve the resolution, amending the resolution establishing the Durham County Early Childhood Task Force and approve the task force members. Commissioner Jacobs.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“Okay, we have a motion of an amendment with text. Well, I'm sure somebody wrote that down. Has been properly seconded. So we're just gonna vote on this one separately and then we'll vote on the other two together since we have an amendment on it. And this is for item 0530. So the motion for the amendment to the resolution, that is amendment to the resolution, has been properly moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, please use the same sign. It passes unanimously. Okay, you good? Good. Okay, so now we need to vote on the two items left, which is 260538 and 260525. I'll…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“Second. It has been moved and properly seconded that we approve the items that were pulled from the consent agenda as mentioned previously in the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed please shoot the same sign. Those items pass unanimously. And that concludes our agenda for tonight. I'll accept a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. It's been moved and properly seconded. We adjourn. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? We are adjourned. Thank you all.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
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“Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Thank you all for being here. Today is Monday, October 5th, 2026. We have about three more months left in 2026. Imagine that. All right, we are here for our monthly work session and i will get us started um with a public charge and um i know we do the land acknowledgement now i'm looking around uh would you be open and doing the land advice vice chair okay all right very good i'm going to start with the public charge and then we'll get started here The Board of Commissioners asks its members and citizens to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you. Is Commissioner Jacobs online? Is she supposed to be online? Oh, she's in? Okay, I thought she was still in Arkansas. All right, if we don't see her, we'll do an excused absence for her. Okay, so the first item on our official agenda here is citizens comments. We have one signed up and we'll do three minutes and that is Antoinette Hall.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
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Board of County Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you. Any other comments? Okay, thank you. Manager Hager.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
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“Okay, any other questions about any of the consent items? All right, hearing none, we'll continue on to the discussion items. We have an update on the ARPA project. ARPA project, Unite Street Medicine. We have 45 minutes allotted for this. That includes questions and answers. Does that work for you all? Either one.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
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“All right, I just had a very, very brief, I agree with everything you said, the questions, information, I generally don't speak unless I have something completely different from what anybody else says. I am interested in under, so this slide here, I don't know what 219 means, right? I'm interested in understanding what a goal would be to individuals receiving direct medical care. So I don't know if that's high or if that's low. I don't know if this is the type of service that you can say we have a goal of doing this particular number. but maybe this particular percent or something like that…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026
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“um and are very much on the front line and so i think that that might give us a good barometer but locally um is to really look at the great work that they're doing that'll be that's excellent but you know i'm not criticizing anything i want people to understand that i just it helps me to kind of place what we're doing and how we can advocate for more absolutely right okay yeah all right thank you all so much thank you very much thank you Okay, the next item on our agenda, we have Hope Day Services Center Pilot Project Update. We have 45 minutes allotted for this as well.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 5, 2026