HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 19490708Minutes of the board of Commissioners
Friday, July. 8, 1949
The Board met at 7:30 P. Ta ?., Friday, July 8, 1949, in the Commissioners'
Room at the Courthouse. Present: Collier Cobb, Jr., Chairman, and Ben F.
Wilson and H. G. Laws, Commissioners.
The Board of Commissioners met with the Orange County Board of Education
and the Board of Education of the Chapel Hill Administrative Unit. Mr. Collier
Cobb, Jr. invited the two Boards of Education to show to the Board of Commis-
sions their reasons for needing a million dollar bond issue for schools in
Orange County.
Mr. G. T. Proffit, Superintendent of the Orange County Schools, presented
facts and figures indicating that the schools unde3z the County Unit urgently
need $697,000.00 for Capital Outlay purposes.
Mr. C. W. Davis, Superintendent of the Chapel Hill Schools, enumerated
the Capital Outlay needs for the Chapel Hill Unit. Mr. Davis estimated that
$704,000.00 would be required to meet the present need in Chapel Hill.
The above figures include X401,000.00, available through aid from the
State of North Carolina.
.. Several taxpayers were present and participated in the discussion per-
taining to the bond election.
Upon completion of the meeting relating to the desired bond issue, the
Board of Commissioners resumed its consideration of the County Budget for the
fiscal year 1949 -50. Mrs. Jean Heer, Superintendent of Public Welfare, re-
ported that she has secured an additional administration appropriation from
the state.
After considerable discussion and study, Mr. Wilson made a motion, second-
ed by Mr. Laws, that the budget be tentatively approved, and that a copy of
the,budget be filed with the Clerk to the Board of Commissioners for public
inspection. It was also ordered that summaries of the proposed budget be
published in the two newspapers printed in the County.
Whereas, it is necessary and proper that fixed salaries, principal and
interest of indebtedness, stated compensation of officers and employees,
and usual ordinary expenses of the county and its subdivisions may be- promptly
paid.
Now, therefore, it is hereby ordered that the following interim appropria-
tions be made: ,
To the General Fund 2,000.00
To Public Welfare Fund 25,000.00
To Salary Fund 6,000.00
To Courts and Jail 400.00
To School Fund 6,000.00
To Recorder's Court Fund 700.00
The County Accountant is authorized and directed to pay current ordinary
expenses against the funds above listed not exceeding the amounts of the ap-
propriations hereby made. Said appropriations made b;t this resolution shall
be chargeable to the several appropriations respectively hereafter made in the
annual appropriations resolution and adoption of annual budget for the year
1949 -50, which will be done at the regular August meeting of the Board, or at
a special meeting called by the Board.
Upon motion, adjourned.
Ira A. Ward
Acting Clerk
Collier Cobb, Jr.
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Chairman