Broun Committee on TV

I didn't make the decision, although I was releived to hear it. I called the Mayor who told me he wanted someone else to represent the Planning Board.

Don't believe everything you read in the paper, I guess. ;-)

Terri, it's not on government access (that's 18 in Chapel Hill as well).

Brianna, it's not your fault the Mayor said it to the papers weeks ago and never contradicted it. We may just have to re-consider whether he's a credible source. ;-)

By the way, I tried to watch cable channel 4 last night and it was pretty awful. I'm not sure if broadcasting over static and fuzzy noise really counts as public access to the proceedings...

I'm watching thise meeting now. At least the visual feedback makes it more interesting...

Ken Broun suggested changing the regular meeting time to 4 pm.

Julie McClintock suggested adding an additional ground rule: "share all relevant information."

The Chancellor isn't there yet, so they are moving on to the Draft Protocols, which were drafted with help from the Dispute Settlement Center's Andy Sachs.

FYI, here are Broun's proposed protocols:

Draft Process Protocols
Carolina North Leadership Advisory Committee (“the Committee”)
(These proposed protocols are submitted to the Committee for its consideration and possible adoption)

1. All Committee members agree to abide by the most current version of the Committee's Process Protocols.

2. The Committee may make changes to the protocols.

3. Ken Broun shall serve as Committee chair and facilitator. As facilitator, Mr. Broun will preside over the Committee's process. He will not participate substantively in the Committee's discussions and will not vote on Committee decisions or recommendations. He may give procedural direction or make procedural suggestions to assist the group in communicating, fact-finding, problem solving, resolving conflict, and otherwise conducting its business.

4. The Committee will try to reach a consensus on its decisions and recommendations. Consensus in this context means unanimous acceptance of a proposal as a decision or recommendation, although there may be different levels of enthusiasm for a proposal. Where the facilitator determines that a consensus is not possible within a reasonable timeframe, consent among a majority of the members of the Committee present is required for a Committee decision or recommendation.

5. The individuals who have been designated by their organizations and at the invitation of UNC to be the initial members of the Committee are attached to this document.

6. Changes to Committee membership may occur only as follows: (a) an organization that is represented on the Committee may designate a permanent substitute for its previously designated individual or (b) resignation by an organization or an individual already participating on the Committee.

7. The timeframe for the work of the Committee shall be through March 31, 2007.

8. All Committee members will:

Accurately represent to one another the interests and concerns of their organizations.

Accurately represent to their organizations the progress of these discussions and the interests and concerns expressed by the other participants in these discussions.

Provide ongoing opportunities for their constituents and for the decision makers within their organizations to consult with them on the issues being discussed and on the progress of these discussions.

9. All Committee meetings and meetings of any formally constituted Committee task groups that might be created by the Committee are open to the public. Where feasible, all Committee meetings will be televised or video recorded and subsequently broadcast in a form available to the general public.

10. The facilitator may communicate privately and confidentially with any Committee member or group of members, either at his own initiation or at the initiation of a member or group.

11. Task groups may be formed by the Committee to address specific issues and make recommendations to the Committee. Task groups are not authorized to make decisions for the Committee. Task groups need not be solely composed of Committee members; however membership of all task groups must be approved by the Committee, or through a Committee-sanctioned process, or by an individual designated by the Committee such as the facilitator or the task group chair. Each task group will appoint its own chair. Each task group will try to operate by consensus. If that is not possible within a reasonable timeframe , as determined by the task group's chair, then the task group will operate by majority vote among its members. The full Committee must be notified of the time and location of all task group meetings.

12. The Committee facilitator will set the agenda for each Committee meeting based on whatever consultative process he chooses to employ for that task.

13. Following each Committee meeting, the facilitator will prepare and distribute to all Committee members a record of the discussions, decisions and recommendations that have taken place at the meeting. Formal minutes will be prepared to memorialize any action taken by the Committee. A Committee secretary will be appointed by the facilitator to record the formal minutes.

14. The facilitator will ensure that advance notice of Committee meetings and copies of Committee meeting record and minutes will be made available to all interested individuals who are not Committee members.

15. The Committee at times of its choosing will identify and provide appropriate opportunities for the general public to provide input to its deliberations.

16. The Committee facilitator will be the spokesperson for the Committee. Individual members of the Committee may also communicate directly with the news media about the Committee's work or Carolina North. However, Committee member concerns or disagreements should first be raised -- and good faith efforts made to clarify and resolve the concern or disagreement -- through direct discussions within the Committee, or within an appropriate task group, or one-on-one with another Committee member.

17. The facilitator will maintain a relationship of impartiality toward all of the Committee members and will operate free of favoritism or bias toward any Committee member.

18. Committee members will bring to the facilitator's immediate attention any concerns about the facilitator's neutrality or any other aspects of the facilitator's performance. Committee members will attempt to resolve their concerns in collaboration with the facilitator.

19. Committee members at the appropriate time will define the way in which any outcomes of this process will be documented and disseminated.

Carolina North Leadership Advisory Committee

David King, Deputy Secretary of Transit, North Carolina Department of Transportation

David T. McCoy, Director, North Carolina State Budget Office

Dr. Etta Pisano, Professor, Dept. of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, UNC Chapel Hill

Dr. Holden Thorp, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Chemistry, UNC Chapel Hill

Dr. Douglas J. Crawford-Brown, Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Director, Carolina Environmental Program – UNC Chapel Hill

Lisa Stuckey, Chair, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education

Anita Badrock, Vice President, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce

Delores Bailey, Executive Director, EmPOWERment, Inc.

Nancy Suttenfield, UNC Chapel Hill Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration

Tony Waldrop, UNC Chapel Hill Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development

Mark Crowell, UNC Chapel Hill Associate Vice Chancellor for Economic Development and
Technology Transfer

Roger Perry, member, UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees

Bob Winston, member, UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees

Chair, Kenneth S. Broun, Henry Brandis Professor of Law, UNC Chapel Hill

James Carnahan, Vice Chair, The Village Project, Inc., Chairman, Planning Board, Carrboro

Dan Coleman, Alderman, Carrboro

Mark Chilton, Mayor, Carrboro

Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Alderman, Carrboro

Bill Strom, Mayor Pro Tem, Chapel Hill Town Council

Cam Hill, council member, Chapel Hill Town Council

Barry Jacobs, Chair, Orange County Board of Commissioners

Jay Bryan, Chair, Orange County Planning Board

Valerie Foushee, Commissioner, Orange County Board of Commissioners

Bernadette Pellesier, member, Orange County Planning Board and Commission for Environment

George Cianciolo, member, Chapel Hill Planning Board

Julie McClintock, Chair, Chapel Hill Horace Williams Citizens Committee

UNC student and staff

The Chancellor has showed up and is sitting next to Ken Broun. He is planning to leave soon for another event.

BTW, Carrboro Mayor Chilton is sitting on the other side of Broun.

Chancellor Moeser is reading from prepared remarks... pleased to see there's an audience and recognizes the community's "deep interest" in this issue. He hopes to engage the community in CN planning. "Some have questioned the need for CN." His answer: "we are running out of room on the main campus."

The Chancellor continues... "It's not just more space." A new concept.

Important to establish a vision. "I expect you to address the issues the community wants us to address: fiscal equity, housing, transportation, and the environment"

"I'm reminded of the planning for Polk Place." It was planned in the 1920's and contruction stretched all the way to today (science building is now filling in the last corner of Polk Place - that should have been the Black Cultural Center!)

This committee will help inform their submissions of plans to the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. He wants to honor the previous planning efforts, those will an important contribution to the Broun Cmte's work.

Horace Williams Airport will "remain open until site work begins." Then AHEC moves to RDU.

"CN should be a model sustainable community." "CN presents a unique opportunity to be a national leader in sustainability." I think we will need to elaborate on what "sustainable" means in this context.

Although this "is administratively a University committee, we will not be determining your processes." He closes by thanking the committee and taking some questions.

It's not you, Marc. The audio and video are a mess.

Doug Crawford-Brown is asking how they will determine whether the future plan is consistent with the principles this committee will establish. Chancellor: "I'm not preparted to answer that question because I haven't thought about it.

Dan Coleman is sitting on the other side of the Chancellor and has asked questions about the old AyersSaint Gross Plan and the airport closure. These are covering old ground.

Bill Strom followed-up also about the airport. It appears that they haven't talked much with RDU about moving the AHEC program there.

The Chancellor would liek us to assume that the airport is closed and is not an issue. Now he's leaving.

Now back to the draft protocols. OMG, they are going through them one at a time. Zzzzzz.

They have decided to not have formal voting.

Now they are addressing the idea of 'alternates' which the towns introduced but UNC has not agreed to.

Questions about continuity and who the individuals represent.

I think the answer is that any alternates are members of the same body that the designee is representing, so it's not a problem. I think Bill Strom is saying the same thing now.

I could be outside right now where it is 76 degrees! Feh.

Now they are talking about 10. The facilitator may communicate privately and confidentially with any Committee member or group of members, either at his own initiation or at the initiation of a member or group.,

...which is kind of weird coming after 9. All Committee meetings and meetings of any formally constituted Committee task groups that might be created by the Committee are open to the public. Where feasible, all Committee meetings will be televised or video recorded and subsequently broadcast in a form available to the general public.

I think individuals should be able to talk to the chair confidentially, but when you start thinking of groups of members meeting, it seems to me that these contradict each other.

There is a lot of debate about this point. Many of the local government representatives are saying that the work of the committee should happen in public meetings, not in secret.

The Chair is now suggesting keeping #10, but striking the words "privately and confidentially." People generally seem to agree.

I don 't see any staff there besides UNC Vice Chancellor Tony Waldroup. This is a "vision thing," I don't think staff need to be there.

They are now discussing taking public comment at regular meetings. They will take written comments as well as have a limited time period on the agenda for it.

Some other important issues were raised but I was distracted.

Hopefully others who were there (or any other crazy people watching on Torture TV) will add their comments and impressions...