Commissioners Elect New Leadership
By Sumner James Phillips | December 4The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted at its Monday night meeting for a new chairwoman and vice chairwoman, selecting Margaret Brown and Alice Gordon for the posts. But first, recently re-elected Commissioners Steve Halkiotis, Gordon, and Barry Jacobs were sworn into their new terms of office. No new commissioners were elected this year. "This is the only time that I will do what my child tells me," said Steve Halkiotis with a laugh before he was sworn into his fifth term of office by his daughter, Kristen Halkiotis, a second-year N.C.