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There being no further bnainesa to aome before the Board the meeting was
adjourned to meet on Monday, November 9, 1970, at 8 P.M. in the Commissioners
Room at the Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina and on Tuesday, November
17, 1970, at 8 P.M, in the Commissioners Room at the Courthouse is Hillsborough,
North Carolina.
- Carl M. Smith, Chairman
Betty June Hayes, Clerk
M1'NOTES OF THE ORANGE COIINTY
BOARD OF COMMIS310NERB
November 9, 1970
The Board of Commissioners of Orange County met in adjourned session at 8 o~clcak
P.M, on Monday, November 9, 1970, in the Commissioners Room at the Courthouse in
Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Members Present: Chairman Carl M. Smith and Commissioners Harvey D. Bennett,
William C. Ray, Henry S. Walker and Ira A. Ward.
Members Absent: None
~~r The following persona were 3n attendance: Quentin Patterson, District
Conaervationiat, David Dixon, Area Supervisor of the Conservation Department,
Bill Thayer, Project Engineer of the Conservation Department, Bill Powell,
Secretary of the Resource Conservation and Development Commission, John Pridgen
of the firm oP Pridgen and Freeman, C. W. Davis, Orange County~a representative
to the Resource Conservation and Development Commission and L. M. Cheshire, _
County Attorney.
This meeting was held for the purpose of reviewing with the representatives
oP the IInited States Soil Conservation Service the proposed reservoir on Seven
Mile Creek.
The engineering data relative to the proposed reservoir aonstruation was
discussed. It was suggested that the Soil Conservation Service investigate the
feasibility of moving the proposed dam site further downstream. Mr. Powell
advised the Board that the Resource Conservation and Development Committee had
budgeted funds which this year would pay approximately sixteen percent (16~) oP
the coat for the Architectural and Engineering aontraat. Mr. Pridgen advised
the -Board that hie firm was in the position to sign this oontract if the County
was willing to proased, at this time, with letting oP this contraot.
Upon motion dP Commissioner Ray, seconded by Commissioner Walker, it was
moved and adopted that the County execute the Architectural and Engineering
contract with the firm of Pridgen and l~eeman. ~'
Mr. Patterson suggested that the slop oe n the sediment atruoture for Lake
Orange be changed from 2:1 to l~:1. He stated that the estimated cost of this
alteration would be $1,18.00 and that the change in structural site would allow
the slope of the dam face td be mowed by a tractor.
IIpon motion of Commissioner Bennett, aeaonded by Commissioner Ward, it was
moved that the elope of the sediment atruatvre for Lake Orange be changed from
2:l to l~.:1.
There being no further business to aome before the Board the meeting was
adjourned.
Carl M. Smith, Chairman '
S. M. Gattis, Acting Clerk