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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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October 10, 1966
The Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange, North Carolina, met in
adjourned session at the County Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina, at
8:00 P.M. on Monday, October 10, 1966 in the Commissioners room.
Members present: Chairman Harvey D. Bennett, and Commissioners Gordon B.
Cleveland, William C. Ray, Carl M. Smith, and Henry S. Walker.
Members absent: None
This meeting was held for the purpose of deciding what action the Orange
County Board of Commissioners should take in order to assist with the passage of
the proposed Water and Sewerage Bonds election which is being held on November 8,
1966.
The County Administrator submitted a list of ways and means by which to aid
in the passage of the Water and Sewerage Bonds. He was authorized by the Board
to implement these proposals, or as many as could be completed before the said
election. It was also agreed that members of the Board would accept invitations.
to talk before Civic Clubs or any interested groups in order to explain the
necessity of the County's position pertaining to the Water and Sewerage Bond
election.
Commissioner Ray submitted the following road petition:
Sunset Circle - Hillsborough Township West Hillsborough
There being no further business to come before the Board said meeting was
adjourned to meet again on =Tuesday,_October- 11,"1966:.in'the"Commi-ssioners-room
at the courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Harvey D. Bennett
Chairman
Betty June Hayes, Clerk
FOR OCTOBER 11i 1966 MEETING SEE PAGE 497
MINUTES OF THE ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
October 17, 1966
The Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange, North Carolina, met in
adjourned regular session at the County Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina,
the regular place of meeting, at 8:00 o'clock P.M., on October 17, 1966.
Present: Chairman Harvey D. Bennett, and Commissioners Gordon B. Cleveland,
William C. Ray, Carl M. Smith and Henry S. Walker.
Absent: None
Also present: Betty June Hayes, Register of Deeds and ex officio Clerk of
Board of Commissioners and S. M. Gattis, County Accountant.
The Register of Deeds and ex officio Clerk of the Board of Commissioners
presented certified copies of resolutions which had been received from The Orange
County Board of Education and the Chapel Hill City Board of Education.
Thereupon Commissioner Smith introduced the following order authorizing bonds
which was read:
ORDER AUTHORIZING $3,000,000
SCHOOL BUILDING BONDS
WHEREAS, The Orange County Board of Education has certified to this Board a
resolution passed on October 3, 1966, showing that adequate school facilities are
not now available in Orange County to comply with the requirements of Section 3 of
Article IX of the Constitution of North Carolina for the maintenance of schools
six months in every year, and that it is necessary, in order to maintain such six
months' school term as required by said Section 3 of Article IX of the Constitution;
to erect additional school buildings and other school plant facilities, remodel,
enlarge and reconstruct existing school buildings and other school plant facilities
and acquire necessary land and equipment therefor to provide additional school
facilities in said County, the estimated cost of which is $1,000,000; and
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WHEREAS, The Chapel Hill City Board of Education has certified to this Board
a resolution passed on October 3, 1966, showing that adequate school facilities are
not now available in The Chapel Hill City Administrative Unit to comply with the
requirements of Section 3 of Article IX of the Constitution of North Carolina for
the maintenance of schools six months in every year, and that it is necessary, in
order to maintain such six months' school term as required by said Section 3 of
Article IX of the Constitution, to erect additional school buildings and other
school plant facilities, remodel, enlarge and reconstruct existing school .
buildings and other school plant facilities and acquire necessary land and equipment
therefor, in order to provide additional school facilities in said Unit, the
estimated cost of such additional school facilities being $2,000,000; and
WHEREAS, said resolutions request the Board of Commissioners to take all
necessary steps, by the issuance of bonds or otherwise, in order that such school
facilities may be provided; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners has carefully examined the facts and has
determined and does hereby find as a fact that said statements of the above
mentioned resolutions are true and that it has became the duty of said Board of
Commissioners, acting as an administrative agent of the State in providing a State
system of public schools, to order the issuance of bonds of the County of Orange
so that the school facilities mentioned in paragraph 1 of this order and in said
resolutions may be provided in order to maintain the six months' school term in
the County of Orange as required by Section 3 of Article IX of the Constitution;
now, therefore,
BE IT ORDERED AND RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners for the County of
Orange:
1. That, pursuant to The County Finance Act, as amended, and in order to
maintain the six months' school term in the County of orange as required by Section
3 of Article IX of the Constitution, the County of Orange, North Carolina is
hereby authorized to contract a debt, in addition to any and all other debt which
said County may now or hereafter have power or authority to contract, and in
evidence thereof to issue School Building Bonds in an aggregate principal amount
not exceeding $3,000,000 for the purpose of providing funds, with any other
available funds, for erecting additional school buildings and other school plant
facilities, remodeling, enlarging and reconstructing existing school buildings and
other school plant facilities, and acquiring necessary land and equipment therefor
to provide additional school facilities in the County of Orange.
2. That a tax sufficient to pay the principal of and the interest on said
bonds when due shall be annually levied and collected.
3. That a statement of the County debt has been filed with the Clerk and is
open to public inspection.
4. That this order shall take effect when approved by the voters of the County
at an election as provided.in said Act.
The Board thereupon designated the County Accountant as the Officer to make and
file with the Clerk the statement of debt and assessed valuation of the County as
required by The County Finance Act, as amended, to be filed before the final passage
of the order which was introduced at this meeting.
Thereupon the County Accountant filed with the Clerk, in the presence of the
Board, the statement of debt and assessed valuation as so required.
Thereupon the order authorizing $3,000,000 School Building Bonds was passed on
first reading.
On motion duly made and unanimously carried the Board fixed 10 o'clock A.M.,
October 31, 1966, as the hour and day for the public hearing upon the foregoing
order, and directed the Clerk to publish said order, together with the appended note
as required by The County Finance Act, as amended, in The News of Orange County not
later than the tenth day before said date.
ORANGE COUNTY
STATEMENT CONCERNING SCHOOL INDEBTEDNESS
It S. M. Gattis, County Accountant of Orange County, North Carolina, do make
and file the following statement of the financial condition of said County con-
cerning school indebtedness, having been designated by the Board of Commissioners
for that purpose. Said statement includes a statement of debt incurred and to be
incurred for school purposes under orders either introduced or passed, whether
evidenced by bonds, notes or otherwise, and whether incurred by original creation of
the debt or by assumption of debt, and including debt incurred by the County Board
of Education, and debt to the State or any department thereof, but not including
obligations incurred to meet appropriations in anticipation of revenues to an amount
not exceeding the amount of the last preceding tax levy for school purposes:
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(a) The assessed valuation of property $...16$,000,000
as last fixed for county taxation
(b) Outstanding school debt ............
(c) Bonded school debt to be in-
curred under orders either
passed or introduced:
School Building Bonds ........... $ 3,000,000
(d) The sum of items (b) and (c) ....................... $,....6,325.000
(e) School sinking funds, being
money or investments thereof
pledged and held for the
payment of principal of out-
standing school debt ............ $......
(f) School credits, being prin-
cipal sums owing to the
County from school districts
which are pledged to and
when collected will be used
in the retirement of out-
standing school debt ............ $......
?...
(g) Amount of unissued funding
and refunding school bonds
included in gross debt .......... $......
?...
(h) The sum of items (e), (f) and (g) .......... $......?........
(i) Net school debt, being the sum
by which item (d) exceeds item (h) .......... $.....i',325,QQQ.
(j) The percentage that the net school
debt bears to said
assessed valuation ........................... 3.766 %
/s/ S. M. Gattis
County Accountant
STATE OF NORTH.CAROLINA)
) ss
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of October, 1966.
/s/ Anne H. Sawyer
Deputy Clerk Superior Court
CLERK SUPERIOR COURT SEAL
Is Betty June Hayes, Register of Deeds and ex officio Clerk of the Board
of Commissioners for the County of Orange, North Carolina, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that
the foregoing is a true copy of a statement filed with me on October 17, 1966 after
the introduction of an order authorizing $3,000,000 School Building Bonds of the
County of Orange, which statement is open to public inspection in my office.
WITNESS my hand and the corporate seal of said County, this 17U day of
October, 1966.
/s/ Betty June Haves
Register of Deeds and ex officio
Clerk of Board of Commissioners
COMMISSIONERS SEAL
Petitions received from the Chapel Hill City Board of Education and the Orange
County Board of Educations.
"The Chapel Hill City Board of Education met at The Superintendent's Office,
in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the usual place of meeting, at 7:30 o'clock P.M.,
on October 3, 1966, in Regular session.
Present: Mr. Edwin Tenney, Vice Chairman, and Mrs. Mary Scroggs, Mr. Fred
Ellis, Mr. Ben Perry, Dr. Roy Lindahl.
Absent: Mr. Grey.Culbretb, Dr. Richard Peters.
Mrs. Mary Scroggs, Member, introducted the following resolution which was
read:
RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS FOR THE COUNTY OF
ORANGE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SCHOOL
FACILITIES IN THE COUNTY OF ORANGE
BE IT RESOLVED by The Chapel Hill City Board of Education:
Section 1. The Chapel Hill Board of Education has determined and found as a
fact that adequate school facilities are not now available in The Chapel Hill City
Administrative Unit to comply with the requirements of Section 3 of Article IX of
the Constitution of North Carolina for the maintenance of schools six months in
every year, and that it is necessary, in order to maintain such six months' school
term as required by said Section 3 of Article IX of the Constitution, to erect addi-
tional school buildings and other school plant facilities, remodel, enlarge and
reconstruct existing school buildings and other school plant facilities and acquire
necessary land and equipment therefor, in order to provide additional school facilit-
ies in said Unit, the estimated cost of such additional school facilities being
$2000,000.00.
Section 2. The Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange is requested
to take all necessary steps, by the issuance of bonds or otherwise, in order that
funds may be provided for such school facilities.
Section 3. A copy of this resolution shall immediately be certified to the
Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange.
Upon motion duly made and seconded, the foregoing resolution was passed by the
following vote:
Ayes: Mrs. Scroggs, Mr. Tenney, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Perry, Dr. Roy Lindahl.
Noes: None
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is an accurate copy of so much of the
recorded proceedings of a meeting of The Chapel Hill City Board of Education held on
October 3, 1966, as relate to the passage of the resolution bereinabove set forth,
and that such proceedings have been recorded in Minute Book 1965-66, beginning at
page 574 and ending at page 574.
Witness my hand this 10th day of October, 1966.
(Corporate Seal) Is/ Willard Sweirs
Secretary"
"The Orange County Board of Education met at The Old Courthouse, in Hillsborough,
North Carolina, the regular place of meeting, at 10 o'clock A.M., on October 3, 1966,
in regular session.
Present: C. W. Stanford, Chairman, and John E. Hawkins, John L. Efland, Jr.,
Roger L. Marshall and W. Glen Caruthers, Jr.
Absent: None
John E. Hawkins, Member,.introduced the following resolution which was read:
RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS FOR THE COUNTY OF
ORANGE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SCHOOL
FACILITIES IN THE COUNTY OF ORANGE
BE IT RESOLVED by The Orange County Board of Education:
Section 1. The Orange County Board of Education has determined and found as a
fact that adequate school facilities are not now available in the County of Orange
to comply with the requirements of Section 3 of Article IX of the Constitution of
North Carolina for the maintenance of schools six months in every year, and that it
is necessary, in order to maintain such six months' school term as required by
Section 3 of Article IX of the Constitution, to erect additional school buildings
and other school plant facilities, remodel, enlarge and reconstruct existing school
buildings and other school plant facilities and acquire necessary land and equipment
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therefor, in order to provide additional school facilities in said County, the
estimated cost of such additional school facilities being $1,000.000.00.
Section 2. The Board of Commissioners for the County of orange is requested
to take all necessary steps, by the issuance of bonds or otherwise, in order that
funds may be provided for such school facilities.
Section 3. A copy of this resolution shall immediately be certified to the
Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange.
Upon motion duly made and seconded, the foregoing resolution was passed by
the following vote:
Ayes: C. W. Stanford, John E. Hawkins, John L. Efland, Jr., Roger L. Marshall
and W. Glen Caruthers, Jr.
Noes: None
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is an accurate copy of so much of the
recorded proceedings of a meeting of The Orange County Board of Education held on
October 3, 1966, as relate to the passage of the resolution hereinabove set forth,
and that such proceedings have been recorded in Volume III, beginning at page 185
and ending at page 185.
WITNESS my hand this 3 day of October, 1966.
(Corporate Seal) /s/ G. P. Carr
Secretary"
George A. Dale, Executive Director of the Joint Orange Chatham Community
Action, Inc.,_presented the following budget request for this agency. This
budget is planned to cover a fourteen (14) month fiscal period which will begin as
of January 1, 1967 and run through February 28, 1968. A budget summary is shown
below:
Federal Grant $65,169.00
Local Share 7,241.00
Total Program $72,410.00
Division of Local Funds
orange County 60% $ 4,344.00
Chatham County 40% 2,897.00
Total $ 7,241.00
Upon motion of Commissioner Cleveland it was moved that the Board of
Commissioners approve the Joint Orange Chatham Community Action Program budget as
pertains to the county's 60% of said request. Commissioner Ray seconded said
motion. Chairman Bennett called for a vote upon said motion. There were three (3)
ayes and one (1) noes. Chairman Bennett then declared said motion passed.
There being no further business to come before the Board said meeting was
adjourned to meet again on Wednesday, October 19,1966 in the court room of the
Courthouse in Hillsborough at 8:00 o'clock P.M.
Harvey Bennett
Chairman
Betty June Hayes, Clerk
MINUTES OF THE ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF. COMMISSIONERS
October 11, 1966
The Board of Commissioners for the County-of Orange, North Carolina, met in
adjourned session at the County Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina, at
8:00 o'clock P.M. on Tuesday, October 11, 1966 in the Court room in Hillsborough.
Members Present: Chairman Harvey D. Bennett, and Commissioners Gordon B.
Cleveland, William C. Ray, Carl M. Smith, and Henry S. Walker.
Members absent: None
___ Also present were members of the Orange County Industrial Development
Commission.
This meeting was called for the purpose of discussion of proposals and probl
concerning the forthcoming Water and Sewer Bond election.
There being no further business to come before the Board said meeting was
adjourned to meet again on Monday, October 17, 1966 at 8:00 P.M. in the Commissio
room at the Courthouse in Hillsborough.
Betty June Hayes, Clerk Harvey D. Bennett
Chairman