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MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Board of County Commissioners <br />FROM: Alice Gordon <br />DATE: June 24, 1992 <br />RE: County Commissioners and Their Township Residence <br />At my request, Sylvia Clements of the Clerk's office has <br />completed a listing of the members of the Board of County <br />Commissioners for the 38 year period from 1954 to the present, <br />along with their township residence. That listing is attached for <br />your information. The cutoff date of 1955 was chosen because that <br />was the first year that there were five commissioners on the Board. <br />Prior to that date the Board had three members. Furthermore, the <br />township residence of commissioners prior to 1954 was apparently <br />not available for all commissioners. <br />I thought this information might be of interest because of <br />many recent questions concerning the number of commissioners who <br />have resided in Chapel Hill Township. <br />Note that the first year that all five commissioners resided <br />in Chapel Hill Township was 1990. Coincidentally that was the <br />first year that two women had ever served on the Board at the same <br />time. <br />Over the past 38 years, there have been 18 years during <br />which 3 commissioners have resided in Chapel Hill Township. <br />There have been 10 years during which there were two Chapel <br />Hill Township Commissioners. <br />Finally, there have been 4 years when there have been four <br />Chapel Hill Township Commissioners and another four years when only <br />one commissioner has resided in Chapel Hill Township. <br />The current population in Chapel Hill Township is just under <br />700 of the total population of Orange County. <br />3 <br />