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MIDITJTFS OF THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS January 28, 197!} The Board of County Commissioners of Orange County met in special Executive Session at 7:00 P.M, on Monday, January 28, l97!} at the Colonial Inn in Hillsborough, North Carolina,. Members Present: Chairman C. Nortrlan Walker and Cotmaisaioners Henry S. Walker, Flora Garrett, Richard. E. Wb.itted and Melvin Whitfield. Members Absent: None. This meeting was held in order that the members of the Board of Commi~sionera might discuss with John McKee progress being made by the Consumers Utility Corporation in its move to acnuire the Utility Properties of the University of Plorth Carolina at Chapel, Hi11. At the conclusion of their dissuasion the Executive Session was discontinued. recently issued federal trequiremantsyforvcontracCingtwith sudengineeriforo201s the planning work before January 31, 1974• He recommended the Board of County Commissioners approve a contract with the firm of Rose, Pridgen and F'i'eemon to do this study since it only involved study of possible sewer lines in the Chapel Hill Area. He pointed out that this firm had already contracted to do similiar planning studies for the Town of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The Board of Commissioners agreed to take formal action to approve their contract at its February session but informally agreed to approve the contract at this aasssion. There being no further business to come before the Board the meeting was adjourned. C. Norman Walker, Chairman S. M. Gattie, Acting Clerk MINiTTES OF THE ORANGE COUNTY __-y BOARD OF CDPRd15SI0NERS January 31, 1974 The Board of Commissioners of Orange County met in special called session on Thursday, January 31, 1974, at 8 o~clock P.M. in the Commissioners Room of the Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Caroline. Members Present: Chairman C. Norman tdalker and Commissioners Henry s, Walker, Flora Garrett, Richard E. Whitted and Melvin Whitfield. Members Absent: None. Fred Cates, Mayor of the Town of Hillsborough, Allen Lloyd, Jack Martin, John Roberta and Ralph Neighbours, Members of the Town Board of Aldermen, Mrs. Barbara $urch, Town Clerk, Harry L, Brown, Accountant and John Pridgen, Town Bi'lginaer, were present. S. M. Gattie, County Administrator, and Betty June Hayes, Clerk to the Board, were present. Chairman Walker recognized Mayor Cates. The Mayor advised the Board that in $ ,3SO,ooo theeTosmrmust have,oinHhandbby Tuesday9Saesumdofa$l3$a000ato applystofthe construction neededH butgthatafurther indebtadnessthbyTth Towns would be0p~ohi.bitedesince~the Town had reached its debt limit and the Local Government Commission would not approve the-borrowi~ig. of any additional funds. He stated that the Town now had available approximately $250,000, but that the complete total of the local share needed amounted to $338,000. This meant that the Town lacked $9$,000 in needed funds. This additional cost factor had been incurred due to new environmental reouirements. Tha Mayor stated that the Town would officially come under a Voluntary Compliance Agreement next Tuesday as the Town had received a court order that it must either state its intentions of complying with the order or reduce its sewerage capacity. Mayor Cates stated further that to reduce the capacity would mean a curtailment of the sewerage now being pumped into the current plant and this would mean that all manuf- acturing would be slowed and that this could mean a trearendous economic loss to the Town of Hillsborough and the County of Orange. He stated that the Town planned to purchase approximately thirty-five (35) acres of property and that they proposed to use this as a site for a proposed sewerage plant.