HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 19720607MINUTES OF THE ORANGE COUNT
BOARD OF COMMTSSTONERS
June 7, 1872
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The Hoard of County Commissioners of Orange County met in adjourned
session in the District Courtroom of the Courthouse in Hillsborough,
North Carolina on Wednesday, June 7, 1972, at 8 o~clock P.M.
Members Present: Chairman Harvey D. Bennett, Commissioners William C. Ray,
Henry S. Welker, Ira A. WPrd and C. Norman Welker.
Members Absent: None
This meeting was held for the purpose of discussing the 1972-1973
budget with the Chapel Hill School Board and the Orange County Rescue Squad.
Dr. Robert Haines presented the budget request for the Chapel Hill
School unit. He presented a Current Expense budget proposal requesting a per
Capita allotment of $782,830.00 and a continuation of the 35 school supplement
at the same rate. This special tax is estimated to yield $4d8,2s0. Essentially
this proposed budget allows for the restoration of ?66,847. in services evt
from the school program last year to counter balance over expenditures of the
previous year and the institution of new programs and benefits costing $2(}3,629.
Tha per capital allotment from the County to fund this budget request would be
X155.57. During the current fiscal year the County is providing the school
unit approximately $109.00 per student.
Dr. Haines presented a Capital Outlay budget requesting a County appropriation
o.f $625,160. This budget provides $297,940.Op for maintenance, $85,000.00 for
modernization of Lincoln Center, $65,000.00 for addition to Searwell, $45,000.00
for expansion of Chapel Hi11 High, $14,815.00 to pay the State Board of
Education for School Bvs depreciation and $1(}7,404.00 for the completion of
Ephesus School.
Commissioner lra A. Ward brought up the fact that this proposed budget
failed to include funds to repay to the County General Fund the loan of
approximately $230,000.00 made during the fall of 1971 in order that the
School Hoard might sign contracts for the Ephesus School. This sum must be
added to this Capital Outlay budget in order that funds would be available
to actually pay for this school as the appropriation made to the School
Board has not bean paid.
Discussion ensued qn the Current Expense and the Capital Outlay budgets.
Gordon Liner, Commander of the Orange County Rescue Squad, appeared with
squad members, Dr. Sarah Dent, Lindsay Efland and Burch Compton to discuss
appropriations for the County Rescue Squad as well as assistance in securing
a site for a proposed Rescue Squad Building. Commander Liner stated the
Squad members agreed that it did not seem to be a good idea to accept the
offer"from the Town of Hillsborough to construct a building on land leased from
the Town of R311sborough. They realized, however, that adequate sites for
the construction of the proposed facility were scarce and any one would
be expensive.
After considerable discussion it was agreed that the County would have its
engineer look at the plans of a proposed squad building viewed against their
suitability for use on property presently owned by the County and that the
Rescue Squad would ask its members to look around for possible suitable sites.
If anything comes to mind they would not contact the property owners, but would
report the possible site to the County Administrator.
Commissioner William C. Ray stated he was not in agreement with the
majority of the Soard about construction of the building on leased land. He
was willing to go ahead with the proposed arrangement with the Town of
Hillsborough and write off the cost of the building as part of the expense of
providing ambulance service.
Commander Liner stated that the Squad would like to request $20,000.00
from the County to help defray operating cost of the Squad for the coming year.
A portion of this money would be used for equipment replacement and the
balance for day time ambulance personnel. He further stated if the County
' proposed to underwrite the cost off' a Rescue Squad structure than they felt the
County should place a portion df the cost of this building in this years budget
• There being no further business to come before the Board the meeting
was adjourned to meet again on Monday, June 12, 1972, at 8 o~clock P.M. with
the Orange County School Board and at 9 o~clock P.M. on Monday, June 12, 1972,
with the Mental Health Authority.
,,, Harvey D. Bennett, Chairman
S. M. Gattis, Acting Clerk