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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 19650104Minutes of the Board of County Commissioners January 4, 1965 ;3'!7 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Monday, January 4, 1965, at 10:00 o'clock a.m., in the Commissioners Room at the Courthouse in Hillsboro, N. C. Members present: Chairman Harvey D. Bennett, Commissioners Gordon B. Cleveland, Carl M. Smith, Henry S. Walker and William C. Ray. The minutes were read and approved. C. W. Davis, Chairman of the County Committee for Economic Opportunity, and Paul Siebel reported to the Board the progress made by this committee towards the formulation of a proposal to be presented to the Office of Economic Opportunity. This committee now has in the final stages two proposalsi one concerning pre-school readiness and the other concerning remedial reading. The Board will be notified upon completion of the final drafts of these proposals. Howard Thompson, Superintendent of the Chapel Hill School Unit, advised the Board that arrangements for the sale of the downtown school property had been completed, and the purchase price had been paid to the City National Bank in New York for safekeeping pending delivery of the property to the purchaser. Gary Sykes reouested that the Board give consideration to the introduction of two-bills in the N. C. General Assembly. One bill concerned the duties of public utilities when exercising the right of eminent domain for right of way, and the other c--ncerned the revaluation of property after a public utility has exercised the right of eminent domain. The Board decided to discuss both bills with the County's representatives to the General Assembly as soon as possible. Ed Barnes, Jessie Trowbridge, and their assistants presented the annual report for the Farm Extension Department. :9r. Barnes introduced to the Board Larry Byrd, who had been recommended by the District Agent as an assistant agent for Orange County. Discussion ensued concerning this appointment. Upon motion of Commissioner Cleveland, duly seconded, Mr. Byrd was unanimously appointed as Assistant Farm Agent for Orange County. James Wight, Welfare Director, gave the monthly report of activities in the Welfare department. Upon motion of Commissioner Cleveland, seconded by Commissioner Walker, W. Marshall Smith was aopointed Judge of the Orange County Recorders Court for a term of two years commencing January 1, 1965, by a vote of 3 ayes and 0 noes, one commissioner being absent. Upon motion of Commissioner Walker, seconded by Commissioner Ray, F. Lloyd Noell was appointed Solicitor of the Orange County Recorders Court for a term of two years commencing January, 1, 1965, by a vote of 3 ayes and 0 noes, one Commissioner being absent. G. Paul Carr and members of the Orange County Board of Education advised the Board that the Board of Education has decided to construct a new junior high school of approximately 38 rooms on the site of the present senior high school. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned. S. M. Gattis, Acting Clerk Betty June Hayes, Clerk Harvey D. Bennett, Chairman The following are copies of the bills presented to the Board by Gary Sykes at the January 4, 1965 meeting: A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO IYPOSE CERTAIN DUTIES UPON UTILITY COMPANIES WITH RESPECT TO CONDEMNED LANDS Duties of Utility Companies as to Condemned Lands. a When arrvv telegraph, tele?hone, electric power, lighting or pipeline company exercises the right of eminent domain under the authority of the laws of North Carolina, such company shall, after cutting timber or clearing brush on its right of way or on lands adjacent to such right of way for the protection of its lines, remove or destroy all slash, stumps and other refuse so as to prevent soil erosion and insect and disease infestation to timber and plantlife on adjoining properties. Such company shall plant any cleared right of way with a frass of a type which will conserve the soil, prevent soil erosion and be beneficial to wildlife. This will not apply to open land that is being used by the owner for the planting of agricultural crops. . (b) Upon the cutting of any timber on land adjacent-to the right of way of any such company as may be permissible for the protection of its lines, such company shallnotify the landowner concerned that said timber is to be cut, and such landowner shall be afforded the choice of retaining his timber so cut or of requiring such company to remove the cut timber from his premises. Notice under this paragraph shall be sufficient if posted by regular United States mail at least five days and not more than thirty days prior to the cutting of timber. If no response has been made to such notice when timber is cut, it shall be removed by the company. (c) The violation of any of the provisions of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor punishable in the discretion of the court. K8 A DILL TO ?E ENTITLED AN ACT TO PROVIDE ?OR THE HE-EVAWATION OF REAL PROPE.T I OVER WHICH EMINENT DOMAIN HAS B91N EXERCISED. Re-evaluation of Condemned Lands. Whenever any utility company or any other agency including the North Carolina State Highway Commission has exercised the right of eminent domain over lands within North Carolina, it shall be the duty of the county and of any municipality or other local ad valorem taxing authority or political subdivision within which the concerned lands may lie to re-evalue said lands. Said re-evaluation shall be accomplished not later than the year following the taking of any right of way or other rights under the power of eminent domain. Addition to Minutes of January 4, 1965 By authorization of the Orange County Board of Commissioners at their meeting on February 1, 1965, recorded in Minute Docket 6 at page 379, the following addition is made to the minutes of January 4, 1965: AID TO THE BLIND AGENDA January 4, 1965 Name Eff. Date Amount Revisions Callie J. Durham $79 to 29 Bart A. Wilson 2-1-65 $24 to 28 3ophronia Sykes 2-1-65 $55 to 62 Reason Increased contributions from soh. Deletion of resource for net produce consumed & other changes. Deletion of net produce consumed & budgeting an amt. for electric cur- rent & other changes. Alberta Hester, Foster 2-1-65 $12 to 14 Parent for Clayton Roberson, Minor Same Matilda Pickett ,147,00 Increased personal upkeep needs.