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Chairman Sennett read a letter from the Health Planning Council. Said letter requested that the 8aard appoint two members to the Health Planning Council. Upon motion of Commissioner William C. Ray, seconded by Commissioner Henry S. Walker, it was moved and adopted that Dr. 0. Aavid 13arvin and Vince gavel be appointed ea members to the Health Planning Council for s term of three years. Chairman Bennett announced that the Board would at this time consider the ~ question of the County's participation in the proposed sanitary landfill - operation. Chairman Bennett recognized B. B. Olive oP D~ham. Imo. Olive stated that he would like to organise a team of individuals who would make a solid waste disposal study Por Orange County. He stated that he hoped the University of North Carolina would be willing to grant the Town oP Chapel H111 just three more cares oP land Por use as a landfill area for an additional year. He requested that Orange County not invest any money in the proposed sanitary landfill area on Embanks Road until all aspects of the appeal pending before the State Board of Health could be resolved. kIa stated that hie appeal was based on inadequate soil borings on a twenty-Five (2s) acre tract approved for the landfill operation, the Paat that rook wsa reached at a shallow depth in the holes bared on the cite, that no reasonable evidence had been offered to eatabliah the fact that the walla in the immediate area would not be polluted, the long run nowt of using the site could run into millions of dollars if the site is underlain with rock, re ulationa from the State Board of Health requires test borings to extend ten (10) feet below the maximum trench depth., and that no teat borings extended below the ten (10) foot depth of the trench, the application filed auggeated that the site would serve 39,OOD people and that the people oP the County could not be served under the current proposal, and that the life, in year a, oP this landfill had not been estimated and thus it did not comply with the State Board of Health regulations. I+~. Olive stated further that he intended to seriously pursue the appeals now on file with the State Board oP Health. Chairman Bennett read a summons that had been served upon him as Chairman of the Berard. The summons ordered the County of Orange to be present in court on Wednesday, September 27, 1972. The matter of the suit filed by the New Hope Improvement Assooiation relative to the sanitary landfill operation oa klxbanks Road was to be heard by Judge Thomas D. Cooper. The County Administrator was directed to turn the complaint and the a~ona over to the _ County Attorney. Commissioner Norman Walker moved that the Board refrain from taking any action on the sanitary landfill matter until the suit filed by the New Hape Improvement Association had been heard in court and settled. Commissioner Henry S. Walker offered a second to this motion. Commissioner William C. Ray stated that he was opposed to the motion as he felt the County should let the Town of Chapel Hill know what it intended to do about the sanitary landfill matter. Commissioner Tra A. Ward stated that he felt the Board was, at this time, considering possible methods of how the County would participate in the sanitary landfill err®a and he saw no reason to delay the discussipn on the matter. Chairman Bennett called Por a vote an Commissioner Norman Walker's motion. Commissioners William C. Ray and Tra A. Ward voted aye. Commissioners Norman Walker and Henry S. Walker voted nay. Chairman Bennett voted aye and then declared the motion defeated. Commissioner William C. Ray moved that after proper approvals, satisfactory to the Beard, were received from the State Board of Health and the Court and satisfactory agreements as to the ownership of the real estate the operation and control of the landfill were agreed upon between the County and the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro that the County should signify its willingness to financially participate in the proposed sanitary landfill operation on a .- forty-three percent ((~.3~) basis. Commissioner Ira A. Ward seconded Commissioner Ray's motion. Chairman Bennett 4alled for a vote on the motion. Commissioners Harvey D. Bennett, Henry S. Walker, William C. Ray and Ira A. Ward voted aye. Commissioner Norman Walker abstained. Chairman Bennett then declared the motion passed. -'