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4- <br /> PAGE 1 <br /> APPROVED 1/17/89 <br /> MINUTES <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> SPECIAL MEETING <br /> JULY 25, 1988 <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners held a special meeting on July 25, 1988 at <br /> 4:00 p.m. in the Commissioner's Meeting Room, 109 Court Street, Hillsborough, North <br /> Carolina for the purpose of introducing the formal Bond Order and the sworn <br /> statement of debt as part of the Bond Referendum process. <br /> BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Vice-Chair Moses Carey, Jr. , and Commissioners Stephen <br /> Halkiotis, John Hartwell and Don Willhoit. <br /> BOARD MEMBER ABSENT: Chair Shirley E. Marshall. <br /> ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br /> STAFF PRESENT: Assistant County Manager Albert Kittrell, Clerk to the Board <br /> Beverly A. Blythe, Deputy Finance Officer Ken Chavious and Finance Director Ellen <br /> Liston. <br /> STAGE II WATER SHORTAGE ALERT FOR AREAS SERVED BY OWASA <br /> Commissioner Carey, having been provided with information that the water level <br /> of University Lake is more than 24 inches below full issued a public proclamation <br /> declaring to all persons that a STAGE II WATER SHORTAGE ALERT is now in effect with <br /> voluntary water conservation restrictions. <br /> PROCEEDINGS (A signfd copy of the proceedings is an attachment to these minutes on <br /> pages 27o-21 8 690. 2-3 <br /> Commissioner Moses Carey, Jr. introduced and read the following three orders <br /> authorizing bonds: <br /> ORDER AUTHORIZING $22,000,000 <br /> SCHOOL BONDS <br /> WHEREAS, The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education and The Orange <br /> County Board of Education have certified to the Board of Commissioners for the <br /> County of Orange, North Carolina, resolutions passed by said boards of education <br /> showing that adequate school facilities are not now available in their respective <br /> administrative units to comply with the requirements of Section 2 of Article IX of <br /> the Constitution of North Carolina for the maintenance of schools nine months in <br /> every year and that it is necessary, in order to maintain such nine months' school <br /> term as required by said Section 2 of Article IX of the Constitution, to provide <br /> additional school facilities in said units by erecting additional school buildings <br /> and other school plant facilities, remodeling, enlarging and reconstruction lar <br /> existing school buildings and other school plant facilities, acquiring any <br /> necessary land, furnishings and equipment therefor and developing such land, the <br /> estimated aggregate cost of which is at least $22,000,000. <br /> WHEREAS, said resolutions request said Board of Commissioners to take all <br /> necessary steps, by the issuance of bonds or otherwise, in order that funds for <br /> such school facilities may be provided; and <br />