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BC;K 7 FAGE 116 MINUTES OF THE ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />June 3, 1968 <br />The Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange, North Carolina met at 10:00 <br />o'clock A.M. in regular session on June 3, 1968 at the County Courthouse in Hillsborough, <br />North Carolina. <br />Members Present: Harvey D. Bennett, Chairman, and Commissioners William C. Ray, <br />Carl M. Smith, Ira A. Ward and Henry S. Walker. <br />Members Absent: None <br />Minutes for meetings held during May were read and approved. <br />Ed Barnes, Farm Extension Agent and Elizabeth Meldau, District Home Economist, <br />were present to present Mrs. Sarah Sears as the replacement for Mrs. Arleen Tyler, <br />Assistant Rome Demonstration Agent. Mrs. Meldau requested that the salary for Mrs. <br />Sears be raised an additional $250.00 over the salary being paid to Mrs. Tyler and <br />she justified her request for additional said salary by virtue of the fact that Mrs. <br />Sears had had four years of experience in Home Demonstration work. <br />Upon motion of Commissioner Ward, seconded by Commissioner Ray, it was moved and <br />adopted, that Mrs. Sarah Sears be employed as the Assistant Home Demonstration Agent <br />for Orange County and that the recommendation of Mrs. Meldau relative to the salary <br />of said employee be approved. <br />Paul Alston, Director of the Orange-Chatham Community Action and Fred Cates, <br />Mayor for the Town of Hillsborough, were present. The County Administrator announced <br />that this was the time and place for the public hearing pertaining to the designating <br />of an agency or agencies who would administer the various monies received for <br />Community Action programs. <br />Chairman Bennett requested that Paul Alston give a progress report for the <br />programs being instituted by the Orange-Chatham Community Action committee. A <br />question and answer session ensued. <br />Upon motion of Commissioner Ward, seconded by Commissioner Smith, it was moved <br />and adopted, that the Orange-Chatham Community Action Committee be designated as the <br />agency for political jurisdiction. <br />Fred Cates, Mayor Town of Hillsborough, requested that the Board of Commissioners <br />join with the Town of Hillsborough in the appointment of a Human Relations Council. <br />Chairman Bennett read a letter which he had received from D. S. Coltrane, Chairman <br />North Carolina Good Neighbor Council, in which Mr. Coltrane had suggested that such <br />a council be organized for the Town of Hillsborough and the County of Orange <br />Mrs. Donald Thomas, President of the League of Women Voters presented the following <br />telegram: <br />"As a result of League Studies of Local Planning and National Water Resources <br />Carried on Since 1958, The League Of Women Voters Of Chapel Hill strongly supports <br />the Regional, State and Local Planners, Mr. Marshall Staton of the North Carolina <br />State Board of Health and Dr. Daniel Okun of the School of Public Health, <br />University of North Carolina in their opposition to the rezoning of the Forrest <br />Heath property in the University Lake Watershed." <br />Chairman Bennett read a resolution which had been adopted by the Town of Chapel <br />Hill: <br />i <br />WHEREAS an adequate supply of good water is one of the most important resources <br />of any urban area, and; <br />WHEREAS excessive development in the watershed serving as a municipal water <br />supply, can, unless public sewer is provided, endanger the quality of the water and <br />the health of those who use the water, and; <br />WHEREAS, control by zoning is a practical method for protecting the watershed <br />while permitting reasonable development, <br />NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the orange County Board of Commissioners <br />be requested to establish whithin the watershed above the University Lake a single <br />family district with a maximum density of one family per acre for residences not <br />connected to a public sanitary sewer system, and to extend its zoning jurisdiction <br />beyond Chapel Hill Township to that portion of Bingham Township which lies in the <br />watershed of the University Lade. <br />This the 27th day of May, 196 <br />Chairman Bennett presented the following resolution from the North Carolina <br />State Board of Health: <br />RESOLUTION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH <br />CREATING THE DOGWOOD ACRES SANITARY DISTRICT LOCATED IN <br />ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA