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<br />Questions arose concerning the Dog Pounds. Dr, Garvin stated that the
<br />county should be prepared to make certain improvements in the existing pounds
<br />or to construct a new pound as the demand for such a facility was already
<br />being made by certain citizen a.
<br />Dr, Garvin advised the Board that the General Assembly had enacted a bill
<br />that would require each county in the state to have a Local Health Department.
<br />' He then cited certain provisions of G.S. 130-1L}.
<br />(For a complete copy of the Orange County Budget for the Local Health
<br />Department see pages 78 in Commissioners Docket Book Number 8.)
<br />There being no further business to come before the Board said meeting was
<br />adjourned to meet again on Thursday, July 12, 1973, at 7:30 o'clock p.m, in
<br />the District Courtroom.
<br />C. Norman Walker, Chairman
<br />Betty June Hayes, Clerk
<br />MINUTES OF THE ORANGE CDUNTY
<br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
<br />July 12, 1973
<br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met on Thursday, July 12, 1973,
<br />at 7:30 o'clock p,m, in the District Courtroom of the Courthouse in Hillsborough.
<br />The purpose of this meeting was to allow W. Russell Wright, owner of a mobile
<br />home park on Highway X86 in Chapel Hill, to present his opposition to the
<br />county's adopted policy of taxing some mobile homes as real estate, and to
<br />continue the 1973-1974 budget hearings.
<br />Members Present: Chairman C. Norman Walker and Commissioners Henry S.
<br />k Walker, Flora Garrett and Richard E. Whitted,
<br />~F Members Absent: None.
<br />The'County Administrator, S, M. Gattis, the County Attorney, L. M,
<br />Cheshire, the Tax Superviso^, Bill. Laws, and the Clerk to the Board, Betty
<br />June I?ayea, were also present.
<br />Chairman tidalker recognized W, Russell Wright. Mr, Wright had requested
<br />that the Board grant him time to register his opposition to the assessment
<br />placed on his mobile home. 22r. Wright stated that he felt this change in
<br />taxing assessment was the latest move taken by the Board to drive mobile
<br />home owners from the county. The Board assured Mr, Wright that this was not
<br />their intention, however, the county had a rule which sited that a mobile
<br />home that is connected to a water line, septic tank, and,electricity is
<br />permanently attached to the real estate and, therefore, became real property.
<br />It was stated that the county makes an exception for the mobile homes whose
<br />occupants rents nark space. This policy was adopted because the contract
<br />between the mobile home owner and the park owner clearly assumes that the
<br />mobile home unit will be eventually meved from the site, and thus the county
<br />considers mobile home unite on a rented lot as personal property not real
<br />estate. Mr, Wright argued that the distinction between the two tapes of units
<br />should be based on whether o^ not the mobile home is placed on a permanent
<br />foundation or whet:~er or not it retains its portability. In support of his
<br />argument Mr, Wright stated that mobile homes are personal property and that
<br />they must be registered with the Department oi' Motor Vehicles. He stated that
<br />the Natipnal 5lectrical Code, the State Regulations for .Mobile Homes, and the
<br />BluebooY. of Trailers, Campers and Mobile Eomes, all treat mobile homes as a
<br />nonpermanent unit, and that he did, therefore, contend that Orange County had
<br />no legal right to tax his property as real estate. The Board roquested the
<br />County Attorney to further investigate the General Statutes relative to this
<br />matter and to file with them, at a later date, a written report of his findings.
<br />Chairman Walker recognized Dr. Silas Coley, Jr., Director of the Orange-
<br />Person-Chatham Mental Health Center, and Mrs. Pat Walton, Administrative
<br />Airector of said Center. Present also were Dr. Warren Johnson, Director of
<br />the Family Counseling Center at Hillsborough, and Mrs. Lynn Foefey, Graduation
<br />Saecialiat O-P-C Mental Health Center.
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