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~~~ Commissioner Norman Walker moved the motion be tabled. Commissioner Jan { ~ Pinney offered a second to the motion to table. ~ Chairman Flora Garrett called for a vote on the motion to table. Ayes 3, Noes 1. The motion to table was declared passed. Commissioner Pinney suggested the Board inquire about a long term lease of the - property;(~Oyears or. more ), with the option to buy receiving credit £or all lease payments towards the purchase pr;ece. If a lease arrangement is not acceptable to the Board of Education then would they please make another offer to the Board of Commissioners as the Board £elt $100,000 was too much to pay £or the property. The meeting then adjourned. ~~~~~ Flora Garrett, Chairman S.~ ^:Mr Gattis; ~; Aging -frkerk Items Filed: None. Approved: THE;4~YNUTES.-OF THE QRAN.GE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMSS5IONERS February 13, 1975 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met on Thursday, February 13, 1975, at 8:00 p.m., in the Commissioners Room at the Courthouse in Hillsborough, N. C. Members Present: Chairman Flora Garrett, Commissioners Norm Gustaveson, Jan °inney, and Richard E. Whetted. Members Absent: Commissioner Norman Walker. A. B. Coleman, Jr. County Attorney, S. M. Gattis, County Administrator, and Betty June Hayes, Clerk, were also present. 6i11 Laws, Tax Supervisor, and Archie Kelly, Tax Appraiser, were also present. Pat Walton, Executive Director of Mental Health was also present. This meeting was held for the purpose of hearing tax appeals that had been received since the Board of Equalization and Review had adjourned. The County Administrator stated that Commissioner Norman Walker called and requested him to ask the Board not .to take any action on the Northside School property until he could be present. Mr. Gattis explained that Mr. Walker was sick with the flu. The Board agreed that due to the pressure to time that it should reach some decision as to how to begin to negotiate for the Northside School property. Upon motion of Commissioner Gustaveson, seconded by Commissioner Whitted, it was moved and adopted to continue discussion bn the Northside School property. Commissioner Pinney stated that he had learned that the School Board could lease the Northside School property and that he had talked unofficially with members of the School Board and these members expressed an interest in Such an arrangement. The Board questioned ytrs. Walton concerning the grant monies that would be an advantage for renovation and they incuired about the time factor. Mrs. Walton stated that if a lease agreement was to be pursued then it would •-- have to be a long term lease agreement before the gran` monies. could ae applied. Upon motion of Commissioner Pinney, seconded by Commissioner Whitted, it was moved that the County should proceed to negotiate with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Unit on a possible lease agreement for either a long term lease that would include an option to purchase and if we fin3, after receiving t3ze f$scal report from Neal Evans,we have the money we can appropriate $15,750. We could appropriate this to them in a good faith gesture for the school grounds. Discussion ensued.