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RESOLUTION REGARDING RECREATION DISTRICT <br />To: Orange County Board of Commissioners, Hillsborough, N. C. <br />WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Carrboro has been <br />requested to approve the petition heretofore submitted to the Board of Orange <br />County Commissioners to create a recreation district to coincide with the Chapel <br />Hill School District and to call an election on this question, and <br />WHEREAS, at a recent election on the same question, a majority of the voters <br />in the Town of Carrboro voted against the creation of a district and the <br />establishment of a special tax, and <br />WHEREAS, it is the opinion of this Board that it cannot approve the petition, <br />but it does not want to deny the voters of the district the privilege of voting <br />on the question involved, <br />NOW, THEREFORE be it resolved that if the Board of Commissioners of the <br />County of Orange exercises the authority granted to it by Chapter 1107 of the <br />1965 Session Laws, as amended, and calls an election on the question involved, <br />that prior to the calling of this election, the Board of County Commissioners <br />create a Recreation Commission of seven (7) members to consist of two (2) persons <br />from the Town of Carrboro, two (2) persons from the Town of Chapel Hill, two (2) <br />persons from the rural area and one (1) person at large to constitute the <br />Recreation Commission, if and when a Recreation District has been created by a <br />favorable vote. <br />Motion was made, duly seconded and passed by a majority vote of the Board <br />of Commissioners for the Town of Carrboro, adopting the above resolution at a <br />special called meeting of the Board of Commissioners on March 2, 1967. <br />I, R. B. Todd, Town Clerk for the Town of Carrboro, do hereby certify that <br />Mayor H. B. Hackney called a special meeting of the Board of Commissioners for <br />the Town of Carrboro on March 2, 1967, at which time the above resolution was <br />adopted and is found in Minute Book #7, Page 291. <br />March 2 1967 Signed s R. B. Todd <br />(Date) R. B. Todd, Town Clerk <br />Discussion ensued concerning the resolution submitted by the Town of Carrboro. <br />It was ruled that said resolution was inadequate to meet the requirements of <br />Chapter 1107 of the 1965 Session Laws. Due to the inadequancy of said resolution <br />the Orange County Board of Commissioners could not act on the petition to create <br />a Recreation District. The County Attorney was directed to inform the Carrboro <br />Town Attorney as to the status of said Town of Carrboro resolution and to request <br />of said Town Attorney that a sufficient resolution for the Town of Carrboro must <br />be secured before the Orange County Board of Commissioners could consider the <br />petition pertaining to the said Recreation District election. <br />There being no further business to come before the Board.said meeting was <br />adjourned. <br />Harvey D. Bennett <br />Chairman <br />Betty June Hayes, Clerk <br />S. M. Gattis, Acting Clerk