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3U Minutes of the Board of County Commissioners June 3, 1963 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Monday, June 3, 1963, at ten o'clock a.m. in the Commissioners room at the courthouse in Hillsboro, N. C. Members present: Chairman Donald Stanford, Commissioners Harvey D. Bennett, Gordon Cleveland, Carl M. Smith and Henry S. Walker. Members absent: None The minutes of the May meetings were read by the Clerk and approved by the Board. George Levings, County Attorney, presented a report concerning the Boardts authority to make changes in the per diem of the County Coroner. He stated that under the provisions of the 1953 Sessions Laws the Orange County Board was empowered to adjust the Coroner's per diem and fees up to 20% in any fiscal year. The County Attorney outlined the necessary legal steps- for the adoption of a Medical Examiner's System. He also reported that the two bills which. the Sheriff had requested pertaining to the control of magazine solesman.and the registration of certain firearms had been presented to L. J. Phipps. The Board approved of this action. The following department officials presented reports for the month of May 1963'. E. M. Lynch, Clerk of Court Jessie Trowbridge, Home Demonstration Agent Cashe Boggs, Dog Warden Jim Wight, Welfare Director and Betty June Hayes, Register of Deeds Chairman Stanford, read a letter from Mrs. Frances Danek, Asst. Home Demonstra- tion Agent. Mrs. Danek stated that she was submitting her resignation from this position effective June 30, 1963. The Board accepted this resignation with regret and the Clerk was requested to write Mrs. Danek a letter of appreciation for services rendered to the county. The Welfare Director presented the following Blind Aid Grants. Chairman Stanford was authorized by the Board to accept and same 1. Nurse A. D. Compton - rejected 2. Lydia May Blackwood - $59.00 to $55.00 3. Garland Suitt - $22.00 to $32.00 The Welfare Director reported'th t education leave was being granted to two of his case workers, they are Mra. IFD and Mrs. Vivian Foushee. These leaves are for a two (2) year period as these workers will enter the LT.NC. Groducate School for advanced work in Public Welfare. The Welfare Board recommended that $300.00 per year be granted to each of these workers while they were on leave. This grant would be conditional upon their returning to work for Orange County upon the completion of their leave. Don Lowe, who had been appointed on April 1, 1963 as a member of the Carrboro Planning Board, submitted his resignation from this Board. The following letter from J. Kempton Jones, Chairman of the Chapel Hill Board of Education, was presented by Chairman Stanford. "The Chapel Hill Board of Education has reviewed the program of consolidation of the schools of Orange County and the Chapel Hill Administrative Units. Our Board was unanimous toward the following considerations, recognizing the pratic- ability of a single administrative unit; (1) The policy of membership to the Board of Education shall be one of election. (2) Orange County shall move ahead in the area of intergration to match that of Chapel Hill. (3) Orange County shall pass a supplementary school tax equal to that of the Chapel Hill School District, and the philosophy of the patrons of Orange County School District shall be such as to look favorably toward an increase in such tax. (4) Orange County shall begin a self-study program toward evaluation and accrediation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Chapel Hill is now in a self-study for evaluation of all grades in all schools. This evaluation is to be made by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in March 1965. We feel that this proposed movement necessitates joint committee meetings of both administrative units to insure that the quality of education in either unit is not ascrificed."' Jury lists for the June term of Civil Court and the August term of Criminal Court were drawn.