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•1 C- III. PRESENTATIONS A. Proclamation recognizing the Lee County Parks and Recreation 12 and Under All Stars for winning the Dixie Youth State Championship. The Lee County Parks and Recreation 12 and Under All Star Team won the Dixie Youth League 12U State Championship in Eden, NC in July and participated in the Dixie Youth Baseball World Series at the beginning of August. This was the second time in the past three years the team has won the state championship. Commissioner Sloan moved to accept the Proclamation, a copy of which is attached to these minutes and by this reference made a part hereof. Upon a vote, the results were as follows: Aye: Dalrymple, Dodson, Knecht, Oldham, Reives, Sharpe, Sloan Nay: None The Chair ruled the motion had carried unanimously. B. Presentation from Lee County Young Commissioner Angel Uy. Lee County 4-H Young Commissioner Angel Uy presented to the Board of Commissioners about her experience as a 4-H Young Commissioner along with her selection and plans to attend the upcoming NCACC Annual Conference in August 2018 as the Association's Youth Voice. Ms. Uy will be representing Lee County at the National 4-H Conference in Atlanta, Georgia in November. No action was taken. IV. PUBLIC COMMENTS Pursuant to General Statute § 152A-52.1, Chair Dalrymple opened the floor for Public Comments. No one spoke during the public comments section of the meeting. V. OLD BUSINESS A. Consideration of instructing staff to enter into negotiations and a fee arrangement with a national law firm to represent the County in the opioid litigation. At the July 23, 2018 regular meeting, the Board heard presentations from representatives of McHugh Fuller Law and Simmons Hanly Conroy regarding their approach to representation in the opioid litigation along with an update on the status of the cases currently under the jurisdiction of the multi-district litigation in Ohio. Ms. Parrish provided an overview of data gathered from the hospital including rates of Narcan dispensed and EMS calls, and information from the Health Department with the help of Project Lazarus which assists in addressing prescription drug use and overdose in the community. The NC DHHS website has a lot of statistical information from NCDetect, which detects opioid and heroin use by county. The Sheriff's Office was able to gather some information on the number of overdose calls they have responded to resulting in an increasing trend from 2010 to 2018. Chair Dalrymple stated that this topic will be Cie addressed at the NCACC Annual meeting next week and recommended delaying the decision until after more information was obtained. Commissioner Reives moved to table the decision until more information is obtained. Commissioner Reives also suggested Page 316