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MINUTES OF THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD CF COMMISSIONERS July 3, 1967 BOCK 7 FACE 1 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Monday, July 3, 1967 at ten o'clock a.m. in the Commissioners Room at the Courthouse in Hillsborough. Members Present: Chairman Harvey D. Bennett, and Commissioners William C. Ray, Carl M. Smith, Henry S. Walker and Ira A. Ward. Members Absent: None, Minutes of the previous meetings were read and approved. Comma Byrd, resident of Eno Township, presented the following letter and petition. "ENO PRECINCT DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE The Honorable Harvey Bennett Chairman, Orange County Board of Commissioners June 26, 1967 The Eno Precinct Democratic Committee, Eric Township, respectfully request that the people of Eno Township be allowed the right to vote on the zoning issue. We wish to maintain a state of tranquility in this precinct and township and this is the one way, in fact, the only way we can see of doing it. We submit herewith a petition signed by 496 residents, voters and freeholders of Eno Township requesting, also, that the people be allowed to vote on the zoning issue. Respectfully, /s/ Clyde Hart, Chairman /s/ James W. Kernodle, Secretary" "We, the people of Eno Township and being in Orange County,'N. C. petition our County Commissioners not to enact any kind of zoning in our township and or county without the right of we the people to vote on the zoning ordinance and or taxes to operate said zoning. We also petition our state legislators in our county and state to enact laws to allow us the right to vote on any zoning ordinance and or taxes for its operation as the only method for enacting said ordinances. NAME ADDRE55" The following road petitions were presented and the clerk was directed to forward to State Highway Commission: Barnes Street (Lincoln Park Subdivision) Murray Avenue, West Hillsborough, N. C. SR. #1338 Northside Drive, Chapel Hill, N. C. i A petition signed by residents of the Orange Grove-Calvander Community requested that Secondary Road 41177 be named Dairy Land Road and that a sign so designating the name of said road be erected by the State Highway Department. The clerk was advised to forward said petition stating the approval of the Board to said petition,. Discussion ensued concerning a letter received from W. Marshall Smith, Recorders Court Judge. Judge Smith had requested a leave of absence from this position effective as of July 1, 1967. It was moved and duly adopted that leave of absence be-granted to W. Marshall Smith. Upon motion of Commissioner Walker, seconded by Commissioner Ward, it was moved and unanimously adopted that Dalton H. Loftin, Attorney at Law, be appointed as Judge of Orange County Recorders Court effective as of July 1, 1967 until August.31, 1967. The clerk was requested to advise Mr. Loftin of this appointment. Discussion ensued relative to a petition being circulated in the Dogwood Acres area relative to the establshment of a sanitary district. Discussion ensued concerning O.E.O.and the Joint Orange-Chatham Action, Inc. requested budget. It was agreed that the Orange County Board of Commissioners would discuss this matter further with the Chatham County Board of Commissioners.