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41)n <br />HOW SHOULD THE COUNCIL BE CREATED? <br />When a County Human Relations Council is established, it should have, not only, <br />the approval of the Boatel of County Commissioners, but the approval and support of <br />the County Board of Education and the Mayors of the cities and towns within the County. <br />HOW SHOULD THE COUNCIL BE CONSTITUTED? <br />Obtaining a representative Human Relations Council is one of the most crucial <br />factors in its success. Ultimately, the commitmsnt of the Council members and their <br />influence In the community will determine the effectiveness of the Council. Ci ns <br />tize <br />supporting the creation of the County council have a responsibility to assist the <br />County officials in selecting the beat possible members. Care should be taken to <br />secure bi-racial representation from every segment of the population and from the <br />mayor points of view within the community or county. <br />Special attention should be given to the selection of the Negro members of the <br />Council. Those making the selection cannot afford to forget that the Negro members <br />moat be perema who have the trust of the Negro citizens. Choosing Negro members <br />solely on the basis of their acceptability to white people will not work. Negroes <br />appointed to human relations committees should be widely respected and have a following <br />among the Negroes of their community. <br />NUMBER OF MEMBERS ON COUNCIL <br />The number of members on a county-wide Hunan Relations or Good Neighbor Council <br />moat be governed by the situation; however, it appears that there should be a minimum <br />or twelve and a maximum of twenty-four members, bat if the Council is set up with twelve <br />of fifteen members at the beginning, it should be understood that more members will be <br />added. On the Council should be at least one white and one Negro minister. There <br />should be on the Council four rather young people--age 20 to 25--two whites and two <br />Negroes--one male and one female. <br />EDUCATIONAL PROCHAM <br />An educational program Should be developed that will reach the opinion molders <br />of the community or county. This may take the form of a speakers bureau which will <br />provide speakers for civic, educational and religious groups. Contact should be made <br />with the newspapers, the radio stations, and television channels. Special programs <br />should be developed for parent-teacher groups and school assemblies. <br />CONSULTANTS <br />Consideration should be given to naming the following as consultants: <br />1. Director of Public Welfare <br />2. County Superintendent of Public Instruction <br />3. Principal of one or more schools <br />4. A white and a Negro Agricultural Extension Worker <br />5. Director of Industrial Education Center, Techsieal Institute, or <br />Community College <br />6. Representative Farm Home Administration <br />7. Director of Anti-Poverty program <br />8. Any other public official who might be helpful in the implementation <br />of the program and objectives of the Council a <br />Dalton Loftin, Chairman of the Orange County Citizens Committee, submitted to the Board the <br />resolution adopted by the <br />called particular Committee relative to the school problems of our County School system, and <br />attention to the first recommendation contained in the resolution. The first <br />recommendation has to do with the receipt of Federal monies for use in the Orange County School System. <br />Specifically, Mr. Loftin asked the Board to officially notify the Orange County Board of Education <br />that the Board of Commissioners are of the opinion that the Federal moray should.be a secondary con- <br />sideration for the Board of Education in its deliberations concerning <br />made relative to the operation of the Orange County School System-the decisions to ideration be be <br />the best interest of all of the school children involved in te CountSchools st e. Mr. L being <br />y system. Co Loftin <br />emphasized that it is the Committees feeling that it would be dangerous for the County Commissioners <br />and the Board of Education to become dependent in any way upon the receipt of the Federal money, <br />and for that reason, the Committee recommended that the County Commissioners and the Board of <br />Education budget without regard to the Federal money. According to Mr. Loftin, it is the committees <br />feeling that it is absolutely urgent that the Committee's attitude toward the federal money be <br />adopted by the Board of Education and the Board of Commissioners if the Board of Education is to be <br />able to operate the Orange County School System free of political controls from remote sources. <br />Mr. Loftin inquired as to the status of a road petition which bad been submitted on May 14!963. This petition requested paving of the Colonial Heights section, Golf Course section, Spring' <br />'alley Lake section, and Palmers Grove section. He expressed particular interest in the portion known <br />LS Colonial Heights, which rune from Old Highway #10 to U. S. Highway 79-A; he stated further that <br />'awes Freeland had built over 50 homes in Colonial Heights. Mr. Loftin also requested that the <br />treets in Colonial Heights be taken over by the State Highway Commission. Mr. Loftin was informed <br />hat a separate petition for Colonial Heights must be submitted.