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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 19620904 Minutes of the Board of Commissioners September 4, 1962 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met on Monday, September 4, 1Yot, at 10 o'clock a.m. in the Commissioners' room at the courthouse in Hillsboro, N. C. Members present: Chairman Donald Stanford, Commissioners Harvey D. Bennett, Clarence Jones, Donald McDade and Henry Walker. Members absent: None `til Mr. Mace of the Cheeks Crossing Community of Cheeks Township appeared and requested the Board not to institute a county wide zoning program. Mr. Mace acknow- ledged the need for zoning in certain areas and suggested zoning be placed into effect only in acreas desiring this program. Don Matheson, County Farm Agent, reported that the Farm Extention Advisory Committee had recommended the following person be appointed to this committee for a term of three (3) years: Robert Rogan, Lewis Tetterton, H. W. Moore, Mrs. R. E. Hughes and Mrs. Mamie Parker. Commissioner Jones moved the above recommendation be enacted. Commissioner Walker seconded this motion. Chairman Stanford called for the vote and there were eyes and 0 neyes. James A. Wight, Welfare Director, introduced Mrs. Jean Rogers, Case Worker Supervisor, to the Board. Mr. Wight also invited the Board members to attend a meeting of the Association of Publio Welfare Workers which is to be held in Chapel Hill on October 16th. The purpose of this meeting ia.to discuss the effect new Federal Legislation will have on the Welfare Program. On motion of Henry Walker, seconded by Clarence D. Jones, the following resolution was unanimously passed: WHEREAS,. Albert Coates will give up his duties as Director of the Institute of GoverzmAent at the University of North Carolina after nearly forty years of distingui ad service to the counties of our state; and whereas, the citizens of orange County, as well as all the other citizens of our state, should be forever grateful to Albert Coates and the Institute of Government for its monumental contribution to better government in North Carolina; and whereas, be it remembered that Albert Coates, with the devoted aid, assistance and enthusiasm of Mrs. Coates, almost single-banded in his efforts to establish the Institute of Government, served untiringly and with a sense of devotion and loyalty to the State of North Carolina rarely exhibited, over- coming all obstacles, created and developed the Institute and carried it forward until it was accepted by the University, County governments, and the State of North Carolina, and continued in his stewardship of the Institute, making it the outstand- ing institution in the nation that it is today for research in problems of local government, and in the training of public officials: NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of orange County, in its.behalf and on-behalf of the people of Orange County, express its appreciation to Albert Coates, and to his wife who so ably assisted him throughout the years, for the outstanding public service rendered by him to Orange County and the public officials thereof. Be it further resolved that the Board of County Commissioners extend to Albert Coates and Mrs. Coates the sincere wish that they both are spared for many years so that they may have the opportunity to see the fruits of their labors in the continued improvement of administration in the field of local government and also the further satisfaction of knowing that their efforts have been appreciated by all the people of North Carolina. Pearson Steward, Executive Director of the Research Triangle Regional Planning Ccmmaission, discussed with the Board-a school population study his agency is to makb for the Chapel Hill Administrative Unit.. Mr. Stewart distributed copies of the outline shown below to the Board members. PHS July, 1962 A school plan for the Chapel Hill School District would include the following studies and concepts: 1. Population Projection. Projection of the school-age population by age-grade groups from year o year over a planning period to the year 1980. Several projections would be made, in accord with the various possibilities that exist concerning the growth of the total population of the school district. 2. Spatial distribution of the chool-e a population. Projection of the school age population woula?la?t s ralennin`g districts that have been established within the Chapel Hill Planning Area, and to that part of the school district that lies outside of the Chapel Hill Planning Area. Estimates of the number and age-grade distribution of children within each of the planning districts would be prepared. The social and land-use characteristics of each planning district would be evaluated and related to the estimates. 3. School sites. The following factors would be studied and applied to a plan for school locations: 282 a. The comprehensive lend-use plan for the Chapel Hill-'Planning Area. Coordinate of school planning with other land uses. b. The major thoroughfare plan for the planning areas related to sebool,accessibility and safety. c. Optimum size or pupil capacity of school plants and sites. These factors would be derived from criteria and standards determined or approved by the Chapel Hill School Board. d. Analysis of the present end future adequacy of existing school plants, sites, and facilities, using available material and knowledge for the most part. e. Possible uses of school buildings, facilities, and sites for other community functions. f. Possible effecta of technological innovations upon tesebing methods, school and classroom size, and site locations in accordance with any School Board standards or studies. The number of school sites required would, of course, depend upon policies gover: the number of pupils assigned to•eeeb school. These policy decisions would be in- fluenced not only by prevailing education theories and practices but also by admin- istrative and budgetary considerations, and the bases of these decisions would probably change significantly over a twenty-year period. Therefore, the school plan that would evolve from the studies outlined would be restricted to practical funda- mentals: the estimated number of pupils, the expected location of these pupils, the relationship of. potential school sites to comprehensive (over-all or "master") land use plans; the role of existing facilities, and determination of costs by rough estimate methods. The Board members raised no objection to this school plan study. Mrs. B. B., Forrest, Chairman of the County Planning Board, and Charles Keith, member of the County Planning Board, and Lucien Foust, Technical Assistant from the staff of the Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission, presented to the Board the final draft of the proposed County Planning Ordinate. A lengthy discussion of this ordinance ensued. The Board decided to request the Planning Commission for 200 copies of this draft and distribute these copies as widely as possible and especially to the organizations that requested the establish- ment,of a County Planning Committee. The Chairman directed that the public hearing on zoning be bald on October 16, 1962, at $ p.m. in the courtroom at the county courthouse in Hillsboro, N. C. The Board directed the County Accountant to refund to M. E. Lanning $150.56. This sum was overpaid by Mr. Lanning for the years of 1955, 1956, 1957 and 195,7 because of a double listing of one of his house in Carrboro, N.-C. The Board placed on file a letter of application from Mrs. Bobbie F. Walker. Mrs. Walker was requesting that she be considered for the position of Veterans Service Officer upon the retirement of Walter G. Wren. The following Department Officials presented their monthly reports: Jesse Trowbridge, Home Demonstration Agent; E. M. Lynch, Clerk of Superior Court,-Walter Wren, Veterans Service Officer and Casbe Boggs, Dog Warden. There being no further business the meeting was adjourned. Donald Stanford Chairman S. M. Gattis Acting Clerk