HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES-1996-035 Resolution for Establishment of November 5 Election on the Question of Expanding Permissible Uses ,-
NORTH CAROLINA
RESOLUTION
ORANGE COUNTY
WHEREAS, on May 23, 1967 the voters of the Chapel Hill
School District approved a special tax not exceeding thirty-five
cents ($.35) per one hundred dollar ($100) property valuation
within the District to supplement the local current expense fund
of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Administrative Unit in order
to operate schools of a higher standard; and
WHEREAS, by resolution approved on August 22, 1996, the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education petitioned the Board of
County Commissioners for an election to expand the use of the
special district tax so that proceeds from the tax may be used to
supplement the capital outlay fund of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
School Administrative Unit; and
WHEREAS, the capital outlay fund of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
School Administrative Unit includes appropriations for:
(1) The acquisition of real property for school
purposes, including but not limited to school sites,
playgrounds, athletic fields, administrative headquarters,
and garages .
(2) The acquisition, construction, reconstruction,
enlargement, renovation, or replacement of buildings and
other structures, including but not limited to buildings and
other structures, including but not limited to buildings for
classrooms and laboratories, physical and vocational
educational purposes, libraries, auditoriums, gymnasiums,
administrative offices, storage, and vehicle maintenance.
(3) The acquisition or replacement of furniture and
furnishings, instructional apparatus, data-processing
equipment, business machines, and similar items of
furnishings and equipment.
(4) The acquisition of school buses as additions to
the fleet.
(5) The acquisition of activity buses and other motor
vehicles.
(6) Such other objects of expenditures as may be
assigned to the capital outlay fund by the uniform budget
format.
The cost of acquiring or constructing a new building, or
reconstructing, enlarging, or renovating an existing
building, shall include the cost of all real property and
interests in real property, and all plants, works,
appurtenances, structures, facilities, furnishings,
machinery, and equipment necessary or useful in connection
therewith; financing charges; the cost of plans,
specifications, studies, reports, and surveys; legal
expenses; and all other costs necessary or incidental to the
construction, reconstruction, enlargement, or renovation;
and
WHEREAS, N.C. Gen. Stat. S 115C-506 provides: it shall
be the duty of [the] board of county commissioners to call an
election and fix the date for the same, upon being presented with
a petition requesting a special election bearing the approval of
the board of education of the local administrative unit. "
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners
of Orange County:
1. A special referendum is hereby called in the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro School District of Orange County to be held on
November 5, 1996 wherein the registered voters in the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro School District may vote on whether or not to
expand the use of the special tax in the district so that the
proceeds of the tax may be used to supplement the local current
expense fund and the capital outlay fund of the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro School Administrative Unit and thereby operate schools
of a higher standard.
2 . The official ballot for the special referendum shall be
as prescribed in Exhibit A to this resolution.
3 . The expense of the election shall be paid by the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro Board of Education as provided by law.
Upon motion duly made and seconded, the foregoing resolution
was passed by the following votes:
Ayes: Commissioners Unanimous
Noes: None
I, Beverly A. Blythe, Clerk to the Board of Commissioners
for the County of Orange, North Carolina, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that
the foregoing has been carefully copied from the recorded minutes
of the Board of Commissioners for said County at a regular
meeting of said Board held on September 3, 1996, said record
having been made in the Minute Book of the minutes of said Board,
and is a true copy of so much of said proceedings of said Board
as relates in any way to the passage of the resolution described
in said proceedings.
WITNESS my hand the corporate seal of said County, this
zre�-day of 6 Iew Pr , 1996 .
Clerk to tV Board o mmissioners
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