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'°'~ ~ F'SE 5~~ MINUTES OF THE ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />March b, 1973 <br />The Soard of .County Conanissioners of Orange County met on Tuesday, March <br />6, 1973, at 7 o'clock P. M. in special session at Rartman's Restaurant. <br />Members Present: Chairman C. Norman Walker and Commissioners Henry S. <br />Walker, Ira A. Ward, Flora Garrett and Richard E. Whitted. -, <br />Members Absent: None. <br />This meeting was c®.11ed for the purpose of affording the respective <br />Boards an opportunity to discuss and review problems that were of mutual <br />concern. The Planning Board defined several areas that they felt should be <br />considered as priority areas, The matter of the recent request from the Town <br />of Chapel Hi.l1 to extend its extraterritorial jurisdiction was cited as one <br />of the pressing problems, the water and the sewer extension policy, and the <br />submission of plans for all major subdivisions at an earlier planning were <br />brought forth Por opinions and comments. <br />There being no further business to come before the meeting it was adjourned. <br />C. Norman Walker, Chairman <br />S. M. Gattis, Acting Clerk <br />MINUTES OF THE ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />March 15, 1973 <br />The Board of County Commissioners of Orange County mat on Thursday, March - <br />15, 1973, at S o'oloak P.M. in adjourned session at the Confederate Memorial <br />Library. <br />Members Present: Chairman C. Norman Walker, and Commissioners Henry 8. <br />Walker, Flora Garrett and Richard E. Whitted. <br />Members Absent: Commissioner Ira A. Ward. <br />Mrs. Richmond Bond, Mrs, Virginia Warren, Mrs. Bonnie Davis, Mrs. Annie <br />Lockhart, Don S. Matheson, Trustees of the Library were present as was Lloyd <br />Osterman, Regional Librarian, and Richard Rice who is with the Architectural <br />firm of Hawkins and Riae. <br />This meeting had been scheduled at the request of the Regional Librarian <br />for the purpose of discussing the offer that had been made by Miss Wall relative <br />to the property entitled Burnside being renovated and converted into a county <br />library facility. <br />Dan Matheson, Chairman of the Library Board, introduced Mr. Osterman who <br />reviewed the situation at the current library facility and he stated that the <br />current facility was inadequate for a library structure. The::Regional Librarian <br />stated a library building should house two books per capita population for the <br />area served. It was estimated that appro~¢imataly 27000people had access to the <br />Confederate Memorial Library and that this would mean a apace for 31{.,000 volume <br />of hooka was needed. The current library contains 22,000 volumes but was designed <br />to house and shelf only 5,000 volumes. It was pointed out that the layout of the <br />library is not function and that this causes a lack of efficiency and is not <br />economical to operate, over and above the layout there is no parking area available <br />to the alinental and the building cannot be expanded because there is no <br />additional land available Por an expansion. <br />Mr. Osterman introduced Richard Rice, the consulting Architect, on the <br />proposed Burnside protect. The Architect reported that a Pour phase development <br />plan could be used for the proposed library on the Burnside property. Phase one <br />envisioned the construction of a basis library building of 3,000 square feet. <br />The approximate cost of construction of this building would be $100,000. Phase <br />two would contain the landscaping of the grounds while phase three and four <br />would include expansion of the proposed building that had been given in phase one. <br />4 <br />