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<br /> The County Administrator requested the Board to establish dates and times
<br /> for the 1973-1974 budget hearings. It was agreed that the Board would meet on
<br /> Tuesday, July 10, at 8 o'clock p.m, with the County Board of Education, on
<br /> Wednesday, July 11, at 8 o'clock p.m, with the Chapel Hill Board of Education i
<br /> and on Thursday, July 12, at 7:30 o'clock p.m, for the purpose of allowing
<br /> Russell Wright of Chapel Hill register his opposition to the County assessing
<br /> certain mobile homes as_real property. The Board would, also, hear the budget
<br /> presentations of the Chapel Hill Library Coimnittee, the Sheriff and the
<br /> District Health Officer. Monday, July 16, at 8 o'clock p.m, was scheduled as
<br /> the time for the Public Hearing on the proposed Orange County Budget. This
<br /> meeting must be conducted in order to comply with the General Statutes of the
<br /> State.
<br /> There being no further business to come before the Board the meeting
<br /> was adjourned.
<br /> C. Norman Walker, Chairman
<br /> Betty June Hayes, Clerk
<br /> 14INUTES OF THE ORANGE COUNTY
<br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
<br /> July 10, 1973 4
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<br /> The Board of Commissioners of Orange County met on Tuesday, July 10, at 8
<br /> o'clock p.m, in the District Courtroom of the Courthouse in Hillsborough. The
<br /> purpose of this meeting was to begin hearings on the proposed 1973-1974 County
<br /> Budget.
<br /> Members present: Chairman C. Norman Walker, and Commissioners Henry S.
<br /> Walker, Flora Garrett and Richard E. Whitted.
<br /> Members Absent: None.
<br /> The County Administrator, S. 14. Gattis, and the Clerk to the Board, Betty
<br /> June Hayes were also present,
<br /> Mrs. Emma Sue Loftin, H. G. Coleman, Jr. and Oscar Compton, members of
<br /> the Orange County School Board, were present as was George Williams, Superin-
<br /> tendent of the County School Unit, and Charles Crowder, Assistant Superintendent
<br /> of the County School Unit. Mr. Williams informed the Board that Robert Haas,
<br /> Chairman of the School Board, was absence due to a death in his family and that
<br /> Roland Scott, one of the members of the Board, could not be present as he was
<br /> out of town for business reasons.
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<br /> Chairman Walker asked the members of the Board of Education if they were
<br /> prepared to make the appointment to the A.B.C. Board. Discussion ensued relative
<br /> to the absence of two of the School Board members. Chairman Walker stated that
<br /> in order to avoid the calling of another joint meeting between the two Boards
<br /> that he would prefer that the matter of the A.B.C. Board appointment be made at
<br /> this meeting as it had been the policy in the past to settle such matters at
<br /> this particular time of the year.
<br /> Upon motion of the County School Board it was moved and adopted that C.
<br /> Bunn Pope, Jr, of Cedar Grove, N. C. be appointed as a member of the A.B.C.
<br /> Board for a term of three (3) years. Said term is to become immediately effective.
<br /> Chairman Walker recognized George Williams, Superintendent of the School
<br /> Board, who made the presentation of the 1973-1974 School Budget request. The
<br /> Superintendent filed the budget for the Orange County Schools 1973-1974. For
<br /> a complete copy of this budget request see pages 47 through 51 in
<br /> the Commissioners Docket Book Number 8.
<br /> Mr. Williams stated that a number of reasons did exist for the increase li
<br /> i of more than $290,639 over last year's request. The schools were budgeted
<br /> $645,345 for current expenses last year and received $52,875 in surplus. A
<br /> decrease in Title I fund which had been used to pay teacher aides in the county
<br /> kindergartens.
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