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Minutes of the Board of County Commissioners
June 28, 1965
The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in special session on Monday, June 28, 1965, at
7:30 o'clock P.M., in the Commissioners Room in the Courthouse in Hillsborough, N. C.
Members present: Chairman Harvey D. Bennett, Commissioners Gordon S. Cleveland, William C.
Say, Henry 3-Walker and Carl M. Smith.
Members absent: None.
The principal purpose of this meeting was to hear presentations of annual budget requests of
the Orange County and Chapel Hill Boards of Education.
Upon motion of Commissioner Smith, seconded by Commissioner Cleveland, and unanimously adopted,
Frank Umstead was appointed to the Greater Chapel Hill Planing Board for a term of three years.
Commissioner Cleveland moved that the following resolution, prepared by the County Attorney,
be-adopted,
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Claude Mayes is deceased and was a recipient of old age assis-
tance and caused to be placed thereby on his property an Old Age Assistance
Lien in favor of the County; and whereas, the only heir at law of Claude Mayes,
Iretta H. Mayes Crocker, has given a quitclaim deed to the County for the prop-
arty formerly owned by her father, the description of said property being
set forth in said deed recorded in Deed Book 202 at page 117, Orange County
Registry: and
ViEREAS, said property should be sold at public auction and the pro-
ceeds thereof applied to payment of the Old Age Assistance Lien on said Pro-
perty:
NOW, THER-Tc' ORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the County Attorneys be author-
ized and directed to sell the property described in Deed Book 202 at page 117,
at public auction, said property being approximately one acre and that the
proceeds of said sale be applied to payment of said lien in accordance with law.
Commissioner Cleveland's motion was seconded by Commissioner Ray, and the above resolution was unan-
imously adopted.
Howard Thompson presented the proposed annual budget of the. Chapel Hill City Board of Education.
This propcsed budget called for a 20¢ supplementary tax levy wbich was estimated to yield $167,040,
and a per capita appropriation of $185,891 from the county. These sums and other miscellaneous
revenue would finance a total current expense budget of $406,141.62.
Mr. Thompson also presented a capital outlay budget of $1,794,230, which would req,iire
$428,500 in county funds.
Members of the Chapel Hill Board of Education and ?Millard Swiera, the new Superintendent of
the Chapel Hill school system, accompanied Mr. Thompson and assisted in the presentation.
G. P. Carr, Superintendent of the Orange County Schools, and members of the Orange County
Board of Education, presented the current expense and capital outlay budgets of the county school
system. The current expense budget of $256,037 would be financed by a county appropriation of
3200,125 and miscellaneous revenue of $55,911.96. The capitol outlay budget of $251,100 must be
financed wholly from county funds.
The 3card of Commissioners discussed with both school boards their proposed budgets in detail.
for herBett June Hayes, Register of Deeds appeared before the Board and presented the proposed budget
There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned to meet
again at 7:30 P.M. on Tuesday, June 29, 1965.
Harvey D. Bennett, Chairman
Betty June Hayes, Clerk
S. M. Gattis, Acting Clerk