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430 Voting aye were Commissioners Garrett, Gustaveson, Pinney and Whitted. Voting nay was Commissioner Walker. The Chairman declard the motion passed. Commissioner Gustaveson moved that in this request to the Governor, Flora Garrett be recommended as the appointee from the current Board of Commissioners, to the Church Commission. This motion was seconded by Commissioner Whitted. Voting aye were Commissioners Garrett, Gustaveson, Pinney and Whitted. Voting nay was Commissioner Walker. The Chairman declard the motion passed. The Clerk was requested to write the Governor a letter per- taining to these requests. .The meeting was then adjourned as the Board of Commissioners to reconvene as a meeting of the Board o Equalization and Review to discuss Item XVIII. ` ~T`MO- . Flora R. Garrett, Chairman Agatha Johnson, Acting Clerk (For Minutes of the May 18, 1976 Board of Equalization and Review Meeting see Page 442A). MINUTES OF THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Thursday, May 20, 1970 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in special session on Thursday, May 20, 1976, at 7:30 p.m. in the Commissioners Room of the Courthouse. - Members present were Chairman Flora R. Garrett, Commissioners Norman Gustaveson, Jan Pinney, Norman Walker, and Richard Whitted. Members absent were none. Others present were S. M. Gattis, County Manager; Neal Evans, Fiscal Officer; Jeff Gledhill, County Attorney; and Betty June Hayes, Clerk to the Board. The Chairman stated that the purpose of the meeting tonight was to review the Facility Requirement Study as prepared by Mr. Joseph Nassif. She stated that Mr.. Nassif had already made a pre- liminary report and that the Commissioners were to go over the report and since the budget is coming up very soon, a tentative decision must be made. The Ch-airman asked if anyone from the Board had any questions ' to ask Mr. Nassif. Mr. Sandy Davison of the Library Board of Trustees stated that he had questions in particularly regarding the library. He referred to page 31 of the Nassif Report concerning the wording in sentence two at the top of the page - "comparison with Chapel Hill's total circulation, etc." Mr. Davison stated that Mr. Nassif was speaking of areas of interest and not geographical area, which led to the conclusion that Mr. Nassif meant that Chapel Hill was circulating books ~~utside of Chapel Hill. Mr. Davison referred to the population of Orange County relative to the volumes of books in the County Library. He stated that by 1990 the library should be housing about 72,500 books and the library could not do this with 12,000 square feet of space. He referred to Page 39 of the report which showed the proposed Library to occupy 12,000 square feet of the Grady Brown School. He then referred the Board to page 48, a graph of the proposed library and informed the Board that Mr.