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Mr. Roscoe E. Reeve <br />Page 2 <br />July 21, 1999 <br />District was to have been a line running due west from the <br />intersection of the Durham County line and Erwin Road and <br />intersecting with the University Railroad. <br />4. The location of the Durham-Orange County boundary <br />line was in "controversy" prior to 1968. <br />5. A survey directed by a Durham-Orange study commission <br />was prepared in 1968 pursuant to the procedure described in <br />N.C. Gen. Stat. § 153A-18 (at that time the statute number was <br />N.C. Gen. Stat. § 153-11) That survey purports to locate the <br />Orange-Durham County line. However, the statutory requirements <br />for the establishment of that line were not in all respects <br />complied-with. The boundary statute requires resolution <br />approval of the line by each board of commissioners and the <br />recording of the survey map of the line with the register of <br />deeds of both counties and with the Secretary of State. I've <br />not been able to find the resolution of approval of the line by <br />the Board of County Commissioners of Orange County. And, so far <br />as I know, the map has only been recorded in the Register of <br />Deeds of Durham County. I can find no record of its having been <br />recorded in the Orange County Register of Deeds or in the <br />office of the Secretary of State. <br />6. An attempt was made to map the new school district <br />boundary line. The earliest version of this map is dated April <br />1, 1963. This map was probably prepared in order to change the <br />school district boundaries sometime after 1951 to include <br />within the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District portions of the <br />Stone Ridge Subdivision. This map has several significant <br />errors. Its north south orientation is inaccurate and therefore <br />the line dividing the school districts, which was supposed to <br />be an east-west one, runs southwest-northeast. <br />7. Whatever mapping errors were made in 1951 and <br />subsequently, the boundary between the Orange County School <br />District and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District has been <br />where it is now for many years. In addition to school <br />attendance issues, the location of the boundary creates a <br />property tax district boundary related to the Chapel Hill- <br />Carrboro School District supplemental tax, a school board <br />voting district boundary and a school board office-holding <br />boundary. <br />