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e 1 j R d i t t ~' , ~, ~.. _. ~. 0 i i f E E Q r i F f . F i ~/3 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MAY 10, 1979 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in special session an Thursday, May 10, 1979, at 7:30 p.m., in the Commissioners Room of the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina, Commissioners present: Commissioner Richard Whitted, Chairman, and Commissioners Norman Walker, Norman Gustaveson, Don Willhait and Anne Barnes. The purpose of the meeting was to give representatives of the Orange-Person-Chatham Mental Health Board an opportunity to discuss their budgetary concerns for the coming fiscal year and to give the Board of Commissioners an opportunity to discuss the county's proposed Capital Improvements Plan for 1979-90. Mr. Jan Pinney was present in the audience and the Chairman asked Mr. Pinney to step forward to receive a framed copy of the Resolution of Commendation which was read to Mr. Pinney by the Chairman at the December 4, 1978 Board of Commissioners meeting, Mr. Pinney accepted the Resolution. The Chairman then asked representatives of the Orange-Person-Chatham Mental Health Board to review their budgetary concerns for 1979-80. Mr. Jan Pinney, Chairman of the Finance Committee, and Mr. Bill Baxter, Director of the Orange-Person-Chatham Mental Health Center, represented the area mental health board. Mr.~Baxter• "resented the Commissioners with the Orange-Person-Chatham Mental Health Board's recommended budget for 1979-80, as adopted by the area mental health board, and gave a brief explanation of budget items. Mr. Baxter and Mr. Pinney then answered questions about the budget. Thereafter, the Chairman asked the County Manager and Finance Director to comment an the county's proposed Capital Improvements Plan for 1979-90. The Board asked questions and discussed priorities and funding possibilities. Commissioner Gustaveson moved, seconded by Commissioner Barnes, the Board adopt the county's Capital Improvements Plan, as submitted, as the Board's priorities for the next five years in its discussions with the school boards. Yote: ayes, 5; noes, 0.