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Home My WebLink AboutAgenda - 08-20-1996 - X-F J 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No .-E ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 20, 1996 SUBJECT: COUNTY COMMISSIONER MEMBERSHIP -------------------------------- ------------------------------- DEPARTMENT County Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING YES NO x -------------------------------- ------------------------------- BUDGE T AMENDMENT: YES X NO ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT Memo from Alice Gordon dated Alice Gordon 8/15/96 and 6/24/92 PHONE NUMBER Orange County Board of Commissioners per Elected Period Hillsborough 732-8181 Commissioners Township Residence Chapel Hill 968-4501 Mebane 227-2031 Durham 688-7331 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PURPOSE: To report to the County Commissioners on Board membership and township residence for commissioners during the past 42 years. BACKGROUND: Periodically there have been questions concerning the number of commissioners who have resided in Chapel Hill Township compared with the number who have lived in the six more rural townships . Note that the first year that all five commissioners resided in Chapel Hill Township was 1990 and that continued for 2-1/2 years (until July 1993) when Commissioner Halkiotis moved to Hillsborough. The attached information gives the statistics for the past 42 years . RECOMMENDATION: Receive this report as information J MEMORANDUM TO: Board of County Commissioners FROM: Alice Gordon DATE: August 15, 1996 RE: County Commissioners and Their Township Residence In 1992 1 sent the attached memorandum to the Board of County Commissioners, along with a tabulation of the township residence for all commissioners since 1954, a period of 38 years. Beverly Blythe has updated that information to the present time, as shown on the following pages. A chart summarizing township residence for County Commissioners for the past 42 years is given below. Membership of the Board of County Commissioners, Given by Township Number of years Number in CH Twp.. No. in More Rural TwPs 2 1/2 5 0 5 1/2 4 1 20 3 2 10 2 3 4 1 4 Number of years all 5 commissioners resided in Chapel Hill Twp: 2 1/2 years Number of years 3 or 4 commissioners resided in Chapel Hill Twp: 25 1/2 years Number of years 1 or 2 commissioners resided in Chapel Hill Twp: 14 years 3 MEMORANDUM TO: Board of County Commissioners FROM: Alice Gordon DATE: June 24 , 1992 RE: County Commissioners and Their Township Residence At my request, Sylvia Clements of the Clerk's office has completed a listing of the members of the Board of County Commissioners for the 38 yeah period from 1954 to the present, along with their township residence. That listing is attached for your information. The cutoff date of 1954 was chosen because that was the first year that there were five commissioners on the Board. Prior to that date the Board had three members. Furthermore, the township residence of commissioners prior to 1954 was apparently not available for all commissioners. I thought this information might be of interest because of many recent questions concerning the number of commissioners who have resided in Chapel Hill Township. Note that the first year that all five commissioners resided in Chapel Hill Township was 1990. Coincidentally that was the first year that two women had ever served on the Board at the same time. Over the past 38 years, there have been 18 years during which 3 commissioners have resided in Chapel Hill Township. There have been 10 years during which there were two Chapel Hill Township Commissioners. Finally, there have been 4 years when there have been four Chapel Hill Township Commissioners and another four years when only one commissioner has resided in Chapel Hill Township. The current population in Chapel Hill Township is just under 70% of the total population of Orange County. 4 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS PER ELECTED PERIOD E Year Township 1994-6 William Crowther (Elected) CH: 3 Alice Gordon, Stephen Halkiotis (Reelected) H: 2 Moses Carey, Don Willhoit 1992-4 Moses Carey, Don Willhoit (Reelected) CH: 4 Alice Gordon, Stephen Halkiotis, Verla Insko H: 1** 1990-2 Stephen Halkiotis (Reelected) CH: 5 Alice Gordon, Verla Insko (Elected Moses Carey, Don Willhoit 1988-90 Moses Carey, Don Willhoit (Reelected) CH: 4 Shirley Marshall, John Hartwell, Stephen Halkiotis E: 1 1986-88 Shirley Marshall (Reelected) CH: 4 John Hartwell, Stephen Halkiotis (Elected) E : 1 Moses Carey, Don Willhoit 1984-86 Don Willhoit (Reelected) C: 1 Moses Carey (Elected) CH: 3 Shirley Marshall, Ben Lloyd, Norman Walker LR: 1 1982-84 Norman Walker (Reelected) C: 1 Shirley Marshall, Ben Lloyd (Elected) CH: 2 Richard Whitted, Don Willhoit H: 1 LR: 1 1980-82 Richard Whitted, Don Willhoit (Reelected) CH: 3 Anne Barnes (served through Dec. 1981) H: 1 Shirley Marshall appointed Jan. 182) LR: 1 Norm Gustaveson, Norman Walker 1978-80 Norm Gustaveson, Norman Walker (Reelected) CH: 3 Anne Barnes (Elected) H: 1 Richard Whitted, Don Willhoit LR: 1 1976-78 Richard Whitted (Reelected) CH: 3 Don Willhoit (Elected) H: 1 Norm Gustaveson, Jan Pinney, Norman Walker LR: 1 1974-76 Norman Walker (Reelected) CH: 2 Norm Gustaveson, Jan Pinney (Elected) E: 1 Flora Garrett, Richard Whitted H• 1 LR: 1 1972-74 Flora Garrett, Richard Whitted (Elected) CH: 2 Henry S. Walker, Norman Walker E : 1 Ira Ward (Served until Sept . 1973) H: 1 (Melvin Whitfield served 9/73 - 11/74) LR: 1 1970-72 Henry S. Walker, Ira Ward (Reelected) CG: 1 Norman Walker (Elected) CH: 2 Harvey Bennett, William C. Ray E: 1 LR: 1 Township Legend: B = Bingham, C = Cheeks, CG = Cedar Grove, CH = Chapel Hill, E = Eno, H = Hillsborough, LR = Little River f 5 A Year Township 1968-70 Harvey Bennett, William C. Ray (Reelected) CG: 1 Carl Smith, Henry S. Walker, Ira Ward CH: 3 E: 1 1966-68 Carl Smith, Henry S. Walker (Reelected) CG: 1 Ira Ward (Elected) CH: 3 Harvey D. Bennett, William C. Ray E: 1 1964-66 Harvey D. Bennett (Reelected) CG: 1 William C. Ray (Elected) CH: 3 Gordon Cleveland, Carl Smith, Henry S. Walker E: 1 1962-64 Gordon Cleveland, Carl Smith (Elected) B: 1 Henry S. Walker (Nominated to serve in place of CH: 3 Donald McDade who was elected for 4-year term, E: 1 but died on November 21, 1962) Harvey D. Bennett, Donald Stanford 1960-62 Donald Stanford (Reelected) B : 1 Harvey D. Bennett (Elected) CG: 1 Clarence Jones, Donald McDade, Henry S . Walker CH: 1 E: 1 H: 1 1958-60 Henry S. Walker B: 1 Clarence Jones, Donald McDade CG: 1 Donald Stanford, R.J.M. Hobbs CH: 1 E: 1 H: 1 1956-58 R.J.M. Hobbs (Reelected) B: 1 Donald Stanford (Elected) CG: 1 Claud T. Pope (Died 8/57, replaced by Donald McDade) CH: 2 Dwight M. Ray, Henry S. Walker E: 1 1954-56 Four-year terms : Henry Walker C: 1 D. M. Ray CH: 3 Edwin S. Lanier (Resigned 11/2/56) E: 1 Two-year terms : R.J.M. Hobbs Sim L. Efland (Resigned 12/3/56) Note : At the February 2, 1953 meeting, a group of citizens petitioned that the size of the Board of Commissioners be increased from three to five members. The Board agreed and recommended that enabling legislation be requested. It was decided that at the November, 1954 election three candidates would be elected for four-year terms and two would be elected for two-year terms and that in the future all candidates would be elected to serve four- year terms . ** Stephen Halkiotis moved to Hillsborough in July, 1993 . Thus he lived in Hillsborough Township for 1 1/2 years out of this two year period which extended from December 1992 to- December 1994 . Township Legend: B = Bingham, C = Cheeks, CG = Cedar Grove, CH = Chapel Hill, E = Eno, H = Hillsborough, LR = Little River 6 l (8/96) COMMISSIONERS ' TOWNSHIP RESIDENCE** NAME TOWNSHIP Moses Carey CH William Crowther Hillsborough Alice Gordon CH Stephen Halkiotis CH (Elected) Hillsborough (Moved to) Don Willhoit CH Verla Insko CH Shirley Marshall CH John Hartwell Eno Ben Lloyd Cheeks Norman Walker Little River Richard Whitted(D) Hillsborough Anne Barnes CH Norman Gustaveson CH Jan Pinney CH Flora Garrett CH (Elected) Eno (Moved there after 2 years) Henry S . Walker (D) Eno Ira Ward CH Melvin Whitfield CH Harvey Bennett (D) CH William C. Ray Cedar Grove Carl Smith (D) CH Gordon Cleveland (D) CH Donald Stanford (D) Bingham Clarence Jones (D) Hillsborough Donald McDade (D) Cedar Grove Claud Pope (D) Cedar Grove R.J.M. Hobbs (D) Chapel Hill 'Dwight M. Ray(D) Chapel Hill Edwin S. Lanier (D) Chapel Hill Sim L. Efland Cheeks ** This listing goes back to 1954 when number increased to five. (D) Deceased