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Memorandum Orange County Board `of Commissioners From: Sam Gattis, County Manager Date: January 9, 1978 Subject: Boundary Orange-Alamance Counties Some ti ago I mentioned to you the Alamance County Manager had informally dontacted me expressing some concerns his Board of Commissioners had over th inexactness of the Orange-Alamance boundary in the Mebane area. I am enclosing a letter I received from him today. As you may know, for many years Ninth Street in Mebane has been considered the County line although neither the tax maps of Orange nor Alamance County support this, interpretation. Further, the tax maps of Orange and Alamance do not coinide as far as the County line is concerned. These inconsistencies did not trouble anyone until recently when the Alamance County Board of Education imposed a tuition on all non resident students. The Alamance Board of Education used as its residency guide an Alamance CAnty tax listing.) When this happened people living along Ninth Street in Mebane began working to obtain Alamance County residency to avoid tuition pays nts. As our tax maps did indicate some vroperties we were taxing not to be i Orange County the Tax Supervisor agreed to release these units on January , 1978. These few people were accepted into the Alamance County School Syst m without charge I am'told. Alamance County's problem seems to arise internally. When the persons spoken about in the preceeding paragraph attempted to register for voting in Alamancelcounty they were denied this privilege by the Alamance County Board of E1 ctions. That Board seems to be saying they are looking for a more formalized boundary. In any event, if you are willing to meet with Alamance County officials, we should a range some tentative dates, if not I can advise them.