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526 <br />Chairman and the Seard of Commissioners of Person County were unified in one accord. <br />I thought this very clear, when he spoke to you - you're beating a dead horse." ~ <br />Commissioner Walker asked, "Do you know who the Chairman is?" <br />Commissioner Gustaveson replied, "The man who spoke was the Chairman of dental <br />Health, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners yr member of the Board of Commis- <br />sinner?"____"A member of the Board of Commissioners?"____"I thought he spoke very <br />eloquent to you." <br />Commissioner Walker replied, "He was not there." <br />Commissioner Gustaveson, "He spoke". <br />Commissioner Walker replied, "He was not there, Norm, that was Banks Berry. - <br />You're referring to Ralph Lewis. You're mixed up." <br />Commissioner Gustaveson replied, "Whoever he was, I thought_____". <br />Commissioner Walker, "He was not there, clarify that." "So he only knew what <br />somebody had told him. Charges that I have made, I have documented proof. Every <br />charge I made T can prove, this letter, application, and vn tape." <br />Chairman Garrett called for a vote on the motion. <br />Commissioners Garrett, Gustaveson, Pinney, and Whitted voted aye. <br />Commissioner Walker voted nay. <br />Chairman Garrett declared the motion passed. <br />The Clerk was instructed to write a letter of aggreciation to Mary Scroggs, <br />Chairman of the Chapel Hill-Carrbvro School Unit. The County Manager was instructed <br />to vvntact the County Attorney and to procede with the legal details of transferring <br />the Northside,5chool property. <br />Chairman Garrett referred to Item #2 on the agenda: (Selection of three persons <br />as County Appointees to the Orange Watez-Sewer Authority.) <br />Commissioner Walker nominated Paul Morris, Commissioners Garrett and Pinney as <br />three County Appointees to the Water-Sewer Authority. <br />The Board accepted these nominees. <br />Chairman Garrett inquired if there were any other matters that should came be- <br />fore the Board. <br />Commissioner Whitted stated that Ms. Marie Williams had invited the Board <br />members to attend a special meeting of the Parent-Teacher's Group at Orange <br />High School. <br />Commissioner Gustaveson stated that he felt that as the County moved along <br />toward the negotiations with the Mental Health Center that an Advisory Committee <br />should be established tq work with representatives from the Mental Health Group. <br />nSscussion ensued. <br />The Clerk to the Board stated that Mildred Kennedy had been appointed as a <br />member of the Council on the Aging tv fill the unexpired term of Mezinda McPherson. <br />However, the term o£ Mrs. McPherson would expire in June. <br />upon motion of Commissioner Gustaveson, seconded by C~m.-nissioner Whitted, it <br />was moved and adopted that Mildred Kennedy be appointed to a three year term as a <br />member o~ the :Council on the Aging. <br />Commissioner Pinney requested that the minutes reflect that he not be paid <br />for this special meeting. <br />Discussion ensued. <br />Commissioner Walker suggested that each member waive the $25.00 per diem for <br />this meeting. <br />No action was talon on this suggestion. <br />There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was <br />adjourned to meet again Tuesday, May 20, 1975, at 8.00 p.m. <br />Flora Garrett, Chairman <br />Betty June Hayes, Clerk <br />