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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 1975081235 Commissioner Norman Gustaveson then stated that he would like to withdraw his motion, Commissioner Richard Whitted then asked the Chairman to place the Section Eight housing question on the agenda for the 19th. ~~~~~ ~ Flora R. Garrett, Chairman S. M. Gattis, Acting Clerk MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS August 12, 1975 The Prange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, August 12, 1975, in the Commissioners' Room at the Courthouse in Hillsborough, N. C. Members present were: Chairman Flora Garrett, Commissioners Norman Gustaveson, Jan Pinney, Norman Walker and Richard PThitted. Members absent: None. S. M. Gattis, County Manager; Neal Evans, Fiscal Officer; A. B. Coleman, Jr., County Attorney; and Betty June Hayes, Clerk were also present. Chairman Garrett referred to Item #1 on the Agenda: (Recognition of persons not on the Agenda desiring to speak with the Board of Commissioners). Chairman Garrett asked if anyone was present who was not on the Agenda - and wished to speak with the Board about any matter. No one came forth. Chairman Garrett referred to Item #3 on the Agenda: (Appointments) A. Chapel Hill Board of Adjustments: - The term of Jane Stein expired June 30, 1975. Commissioner Whitted nominated Jane Stein to be reappointed to the Chapel Hill Board of Adjustment. The motion was seconded by Commissioner. Gustaveson. Chairman Garrett inquixed if there were any other nominations to the Chapel Hill Board of Adjustment? The Board voted to accept Jane Stein as the appointee by acclamation. B. Chapel Hill Planning Board: - The term of Libby Conley expired June 30, 1975. Upon motion of Commissioner Whitted, seconded by Commissioner Pinney, it was moved and adapted that Libby Conley be reappointed to the Chapel Dill Planning Board. C. Carrboro Planning Board: The term of Marion Phillips expired June 30, 1975. Ms. Patricia Evans has left office. Her term expires June 30, 1978. Chairman Garrett stated that she had received a inter from Carrboro recommending Hilliard Caldwell of Hillsborough Road to replace Marian Phillips and Katherine Adams of Walters Road to replace Patricia Evans. Both would be out of town members. Mrs. Garrett pointed out that she was informed by Mike Caldwell of the Town of Carrboro, that a Board could appoint someone from outside your planning district only when you could find no one within your planning district who is willing to serve. The County Attorney was asked to investigate the question raised by Chairman Garrett. Action on this matter was deferred. 3f Chairman Garrett refexred to Item #4 on the Agenda: (Allocation of funds for Title XX Program). The different agencies preser_ting request for funds to the 3oard of Conu:tissioners were the Council on Aging; Welfare Rig;.Zts; Orange County Day Ca.~.e Coalition; :joint Orange-Chatham Comartunity Action and CR2B. The r~ques't from Orange-Person-Chatham Mental Health Agency had been withdrawn. Chairman C,arrett asked if there was any discussion on any of these agencies? Commissioner Whitted stated that he had a question regarding the original proposal presented by the Orange County Day Care Coalition, Health Support Services. He inquired of Tom T,aard, Social Services Direc- tor, "am I correct in my understanding that this proposal was that a person would be assigned to the nepartrient of Social Services?~ Mr. Ward replied that this was correct, however, he was concerned about Social Services trying to administer Health Service through one employee, as well as the question of who would supervise. this employee. Commissioner T.ahitted stated that the Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action Agency had to rename one of their programs from "t4eals on Ti,Tk~eols" to Mobile Meals due to the fact that "Meals on ?heels" was a cop~narited name. Commissioner Pinney suggested consideration of Council on Aging - Bus Driver and Chore Service. Commissioner Whitted suggested consideration of Joint Orange- ... Chatham Com*nunity Action - Mobile Meals. Chairman Garrett suggested consideration of Joint Orange--Chatham Community Action - Legal Aid. Commissioner Pinney also asked far consideration of CRIB, Chairman Garrett added that she would also like for the Board to consid.er_ the Orange County Day Care Coali±ion - Health Support Services. Discussion ensued concerning the Council on Aging request fo.r funds to employ a bus driver. Tt was agreed that Dr. Martin, Director of Council on Aging, would-prefer that the monies for a bus driver come through. other State or local sources. Therefore, Commissioner Pinney withdrew his recommendation of a bus driver for Council on Aging. Discussion ens~xed concerninn the Chore Serve cahich is a training program r_onducted through the Council on. Aging. P4r. [yard pointed out that his ]7epa_rtment paid for Chore Service, b»t that the Council on P..ging trained these individuals, Commissioner Whitted painted oat that this allocation would be appropriated for an additional employee to supervise Chore Service employees that also provided Homemaker Services. Commissioner whitted spoke in support of the Legal Aid program being requested by the Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action. He stated, however, that the priority of this agency had been listed as the Mobile Meals program. Chairman Garrett reviewed the programs of Mobile Meals and Chore Services ar_d compared them with other programs of similar nature that are being sponsored by various local agencies. She stated that, no assistance except attorneys willing to contribute some free time was being given to certain citiaens. She then cited examples of legal needs that had been brought to her attention, Discussion ensued concerning the State Plan for Title }rX. Chairman Garrett spoke in favor of the Health Support Services for the Orange County Day Caxe Coalition. Commissior_er. ti•?alker stated that out of the $20C,000.00, the State has already given to the Frank Porter Graham School $140,000.00 leaving the County with 560,000.00. 3~ Tom Ward stated that this allocation would leave Orange County $60,000.00 short of anticipated revenues and that the allocation had been made because Frank Porter Graham School had a special project for contracted day care. The Social Service Board approved this project but were not told until last Friday that the Federal match for the pro- ject would come from the County's Federal Allocation. Mr. Ward advised the Board that an objection to this allocation would be filed by the Social Services Board. Mr. Ward advised the Board that if the applications for money that had been filed by the various agencies were not accepted on a State level for funding then the local funds need not be expended. The Board agreed that if State funding was not available for the programs chosen by the Board then County funds would not be expended. Commissioner Walker stated that it was agreeable to him to spend the $10,000.00 allocation among the various agencies' programs as long as the expenditures does not exceed the $10,000.00 County appropriation. Commissioner Whitted stated that he would suggest that Chore Service for Council on Aging be allocated $825.00; CRIB $1,500.00; Joint Orange- Chatham Community Action - Legal Aid, Program $4,000.00; and Orange County Day Care Coalition - Health Support Services $3,350.00 making a total of $9,675.00, plus the other allocation, Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action, Mobile Meals - $6,262.00, making a total of County match $15,937.00. Commissioner Whitted suggested that the Board use $10,000.00 appropriated for Title XX, plus an appropriation of $5,937.00 from the Contingency Fund to make a total of $15,937.00. Commissioner Pinney stated that he would be in favor of considering the use of only the $10,000.00 that had been applied for local match and he suggested that the Board consider each program item separately. Chairman Garrett stated she had talked with the Sheriff and he would be coming before the Board on next Tuesday, August 19, 1975, to discuss personnel problems as they relate to salaries and that she was concerned about the salary question. She stated further that if there were any excess monies she would favor these monies being used for salaries support. Discussion ensued concerning the salaries paid by various law enforce- ment units in the County and the possibility of finding sufficient funds within the current Sheriff's budget. Commissioner Gustaveson pursued the question of what to do about programs that wexe chosen by the Board but not accepted by the State. ` Mr. Ward advised the Board that if programs were not selected for funding then the Board had the choice of requesting other programs to be considered. He stated that he had already advised the State of the fact that Orange Gounty wished to use all Federal funds that had been allocated. Commissioner Finney moved that the Board approve for Council on Aging, Chore Service the amount of $825.00. Discussion ensued. Commissioner Pinney amended his original motion to include CRIB in the amount of $1,500,00 and Health Support Services from Orange County Day Care Coalition in the amount of $3,350.00 totaling $5,675.00. Discussion ensued. Commissioner Walker stated that if $5,675.00 was the extent of the programs expenditures then he would second the motion. Discussion ensued concerning the monies that would be left from the original $1D,000.00 appropriation. Commissioner Walker stated that he felt this money could be used for salary consideration due to the fact that all the program for which funds were being allocated were, in his opinion, duplications of services already being provided by the County. Commissioner Pinney replied that he could not agree with Commissioner Walker because the programs he had considered were, in his opinion, not duplicates of existing programs and that the list reflected his priorities. Commissioner Pinney's motion died for lack of a second, Commissioner v'hitted moved that $825.00 for Council or. Aging - Chore Service; $1,500.00 for CR23; $10,262.00 for Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action - Mobile Meals and Legal Aid; $3,350.00 for Orange Day Care Coalition - Health Support Services, totaling $15,937.00. Discussion erused. ConL-nissioner ~i4hitted then amended his original motion to delete $6,262.00 for Mobile Meals - Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action, thus leaving a total of $9,675.00 for local match to Title Y:~. Discussion ensued concerning the priority that had been stated by Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action group. Chairman Garrett pointed out that there were other nutrition programs that were being carried on by other agencies and that to her knowledge nothing was being done in the way of Legal Aid. Further discussion ensued. s Cot~vnissioner Pinney stated that he 'felt the $4,000.00 should be allocated to the priority items of the agencies that are requesting the programs. C~rair:.~1ati ~.;axrett called fog- the vote. Corntaissioners Garrett, Gustaveson and Whitted voted aye. Commissioners Pinney and Walker voted nay. Chairman Garrett declared the motion passed. Chairman Garrett inquired if the Board would agree to defer from the Agenda to Item #9. The Board then adjourned to the Superior Court- room in order to accommodate all persons present. A slide presentation of alternate proposals for the Eno State Park was presented by the State Division of Recreation and Parks. There were present opponents of the proposed Eno State Park. These opponents made specific requests from the representatives of the Division of Recreation and Parks. After the presentation and discussion the Board adjourned back to the Commissioners' Room. At this point in the meeting, Commissioner Walker left the meeting. Chairman Garrett referred to Item #9 on the Agenda: (B. State Title XX Plan). Upon motion of Commissioner Pinney, seconded by Commis- sioner Whitted,it was moved and adopted that the Chairman be .directed to write to the State board of Social Services and make such comments as she feels appropriate concerning the State Title XX Plan. Chairman Garrett referred to Item #3 (C) on the Agenda which was discussed earlier in the meeting. The Board agreed to delay these appointments in order to determine if a Planning Board member could live outside of his district planning jurisdiction. The County Attorney was requested to research the matter and the item is: to be cansiczere^ at the August 19th meeting. Item #6 on the Agenda *.~+as referrer. to: (Designation of Time for Future Meetings). Discussion enuse~3 cor_cerr_ing the 201 3tu~?y. 3~ Upon motion of Commissioner Pinney, seconded by Commissioner ~~itted, it was moved and adopted that the Board endorse the firm of Wiggins and Rirrcmer as the En.lineer: for the F~illsborough Area ?.G1 Study. It was agreed that the Board would meet with the County Board of Education on Thursday, August 28, 1975, at 7x30 p.m. George :h~illiams, Jahn Wolfe and Norman Walker are to be notified. 39 Chairman Garrett referred to Item $8 on the Agenda: (Report by the Chairman on meeting with the Mayor of Mebane concerning the Joint Water-Sewer Agreement executed in 1967). Chairman Garrett reported on discussien with the Town of Mebane concerning the modification of the Mebane-Orange County Water-Sewer Agreement. Chairman Garrett referred to Item #7 on the Agenda: (Decision on Acquisition of Public Officials Liability Policy). Upon the motion of Commissioner Whitted, seconded by Commissioner - Gustaveson, it was moved and adopted that the County acquire a Compre- hensive Insurance Policy from Collier Cobb for a three year period. Chairman Garrett referred to Item #l0 on the Agenda: (Considera- tion of Policy Statement concerning length of Board meetings). The Board was presented the following Resolution concerning the length of meetings. "The Orange County Board of Commissioners does hereby through formal Resolution, establish that the time limit of meeting held on the first Monday of every month shall not exceed 1:30 p.m. and the time limit for meeting held during_the week will not exceed 10:30 p.m. ~~ This the 12th day of August, 1975. Upon motion of Commissioner Gustaveson, seconded by Commissioner Garrett, it was moved that the County adopt the Resolution. Discussion ensued. Commissioner Whitted stated that he agreed with the 1p:30 o'clock p.m. deadline for the night meeting, however, he felt the 1:30 o'clock p.m. for the first Monday's meeting would be too restricted. Commissioner Gustaveson and Chairman Garrett agreed to amend the Resolution to read 3:00 o'clock p.m. for the first Monday's meeting. , Chairman Garrett called for the vote. Commissioners Garrett, Gustaveson and Whitted voted aye. Commissioner Pinney voted nay. Chairman Garrett declared the motion passed. Item # 5 on the Agenda was deferred until a later meeting Upon motion of Commissioner Pinney the meeting was adjourned. ~\~~ ~ . Flora R. Garrett, Chairman Betty June Hayes, Glerk ~. ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS August 14, 1975 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met on Thursday, August l4, 1975, in the Commissioners' Room at the Courthouse in Hillsborough, N. C. Members present were: Chairman Flora Garrett, Commissioners Norman Gustaveson, Jan Pinney, Norman Walker, and Richard Whitted. Members absent: None.