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Minutes of the Board of Commissioners
June 20, 1,961.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners met on Tuesday, June 20, 1961, at
7:30 o'clock p. m. in the Commissioners room at the Courthouse in Hillsboro, N. C.
The Purpose of this meeting is to discuss the 1961-62 budget session.
The following agencies were heard:
The Orange County Historical Museum
The District Health Department
The County School System
Commissioner Jones moved the following resolution be adopted; ati we have
'currently in the County School capitol outlay budget the sum of $10,000, unexpended
as of this date, which sum was appropriated to icy land at Central High School and
to do certain paving work at Central High School and Cameron Park School, and
verses this paving cannot be completed prior to the end of this fiscal year and
arrangements to purchase this land will not be completed by the end of this fiscal
year. Upon request of the County Board of Education the board declares the
aforementioned am of $10,000 and encumbered balance for these purposes alone and
that this $10,000 be transferred from the appropriation account to a miscellaneous
account and carried forward to the 1961-62 fiscal year.
Commissioner Bennett gave a second to the motion and when Chairman Stanford
called for a vote there were 5 eyes and 0 noes.
The following petition was given to the Board of Commissioners by the members
of the Greater Chapel Hill Fire Diatrict Commission.
"We, the undersigned members of the Greater Chapel Hill Fire Protection District
Commission, in accordance with the provisions of Section 60-25.11 (a) of the General
Statutes of North Carolina, as emended by Chapter 302, Session Laws of 1957, and
upon application of a majority of the owners of property in the territory hereinafter
described, do hereby unanimously recommend to your Honorable Boards that the following
described territory be added to the present territory of said District:
Block A: and B. comprising thirty-two (32) lots in the North Forest
Hills Sub-division, according to a plat registered in Plat Book 7, page
38, in the Register of Deeds' Office in Orange County, which subdivision
adjoins the Greater Chapel Hill Fire Protection District at the
boundary of the district.
We respectfully request that your Honorable Boards approve thi.e recommendation,
in order that, upon such approval, the territory of the District be enlarged, as
provided in the cited statute, to include the above-described territory.
We further request that, upon such approval, the Board of County Commissioners
levy the fire protection district tax upon the property included in this territory in
the fiscal year next following after such approval, and that the Board of Aldermen
furnish fire protection to the territory immediately upon such approval in the same
fashion as it now protects property in the present District, under contract of
September 10, 1956.
June 17, 1961 /s/ John Alexander MCHahon
omm as .oner
/a/ E. G. Merritt
Commissioner
/s/ Mai H
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Chairman McDade moved the request of the petition be granted. This motion
received a second from Commissioner Bennett. Chaiiman Stanford called for a vote
and there wem 5 ayes and 0 noes. Chairmen Stanford declared the motion passed.
The meeting adjourned to meet again on Thursday the 22nd. at 7:30 P.M. with
the Chapel Hill Board of Education.
Donald Stanford, Chairman
IS. M. Gattia, Acting Clerk