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,.. r. e:: i IdINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMPIISSIONERS SEPTEP'1BER 20, 1977 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, September 20, 1977, at 7:30 p.m., in the Commissioners' Room of the Courthouse in Hillsborough. Present were Chairman Richard t~7f-iitted, Commissioners Norman Gustaveson, Jan Pinney, Norman Tn7alker and Donald taillhoit. Staff personnel present were S. M. Gattis, County Manager, Neal Evans, Finance Director, and Agatha Johnson, Clerk to the Board. Goeffrey Gledhill, County Attorney, was alsa present. Chairman tVhitted called the meeting to order and referred to Item 1 on the Agenda: Persons not on this agenda having business to transact with the Board of Commissioners should make their presence known at this time. Mr. Bernice Clements informed the Board that he would like to present to the Commissioners a road petition to have the road an which he lives added to the State maintenance system. I1rs. Josephine Barbour asked that the Commissioners discuss the Eno River Advisory Councils membership. The County I2anager stated that the Board needed to consider an appoint- ment to the Jury Commission since the term of Mrs. Charlotte Adams expired July 1, 1977. Chairman Whitted asked the Board to hear from Mr. Clements at this time. Mr. Clements requested the Board to forward to the District Engineer's Office in Graham a petition signed by property owners on Ccol Spring Road in Chapel Hill Township. The road is located off of State Road 1712. '"he request from residents on the road is that it be added to the State System. Upon motien of Commissioner [9alker, seconded by Commissioner Pinney, it was moved and adapted to forward the petition for residents of Cool Spring Road to Mr. Sam ,zones in Graham. Commissioner Gustaveson asked that the recent ruling of the FCC regard- ing the use of paging be added to the agenda. Item 2: Minutes of the Board meeting held on September 6, 1977. The minutes of September 6, 1977 were reviewed and upon motion of Commissioner Gustaveson, seconded by Commissioner Pinney, the minutes were adopted. Chairman ?shitted then moved to Item 11: Review status of Interstate 40 route as approved by the North Carolina Department of Transportation at its September 9th meeting. The Chairman recognized B. B. Olive, Coordinator of the Coalition in opposition to I-40. P1r. Olive informed the Baord that Pers. Josephine Barbour had requested to be heard at the public hearing in High Point of September 9, 1977 and was also refused permission to speak. He stated that the decision was made at the September 9th meeting without any of the Board members knoca- ing of the implementations of I-40 to Orange County. He stated that no one from Orange County had been allowed to sneak to the Board of Governors itself, but only to planning engineers. Ms. Olive suggested that the Orange County Board of Commissioners reaffirm their position to oppose the T-B Alternate through Orange County. That it is important that Orange County be heard before the Board of Governors. Chairman t~stlitted stated that he was in the process of preparing a letter to Governor Hunt requesting that the decision made on September 9 be reconsidered and that a public hearing regarding the decision be re- scheduled in Orange County and the County Commissioners be given time on the agenda for a presentation.