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b- 001, 1Cc <br />Upon motion of Commissioner Bennett, seconded by Commissioner Rap, Chairman <br />Smith was authorized to sign the Aid To The Blind Agenda. <br />AID TO THE BLIND AGENDA <br />March 3, 1969 <br />NEW <br />Name Eff. Date Amount Reason <br />Sadie Koonce Miller 4-1-69 $87.00 Transferred from <br />Beaufort County <br />There being no further business to come before the Board said meeting <br />was adjourned to meet again on Monday, March ..3, 1969, and Monday, March 10, <br />1969. <br />Carl M. Smith, Chairman <br />Betty June Hayes, Clerk <br />MINUTES OF THE ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />March 3, 1969 <br />The Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange, North Carolina, met <br />in adjourned session in the courtroom at the courthouse in Hillsborough, North <br />Carolina at 7:30 P.M. on Monday, March 3, 1969. <br />Members Present: Chairman Carl M. Smith, and Commissioners Harvey D. <br />Bennett, William C. Ray, Henry S. Walker and Ira A. Ward. <br />Members Absent: None <br />This meeting was called for the purpose of conducting a public hearing <br />relative to the matter of establishing a Joint Public Housing Authority between <br />Orange and Chatham Counties. <br />Chairman Smith called the meeting to order and introduced the following <br />persons to the assembled group. They were John Boswell, representative from the <br />Leased Housing Division of the Department of Housing & Urban Development; Paul <br />Guthrie, Assistant Co-ordinator of O.E.O. Programs from the State. Planning Task <br />Force; Paul Alston, Executive Director of the Joint Orange-Chatham Community <br />Action Agency; Mrs. Butler, President of the Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action <br />Agency and Coolidge Porterfield, Assistant Co-ordinator for Housing from the <br />Local Community Action Agency. <br />Chairman Smith reouested that all proponents of the question, relative to <br />the establishment of a Public Housing Authority, present their views at this time. <br />Paul Guthrie spoke in support of the creation of a Public Housing Authority. <br />He stated that outside of Chapel Hill Township, forty (40%) percent of the <br />remaining housing in the county were sub-standard when judged in the light of <br />reasonable housing standards and then filed the following with the Board: <br />1. A booklet of photographs showing the unsafe and unsanitary housing <br />conditions which exists in Orange County. <br />2. An abstract from a booklet prepared by the O.R.O. showing a social <br />profile of housing in the county. The abstract showed that for <br />the 1950 and 1960 National Average Orange County was far below <br />the national level. <br />3. A table listing the location of all Public Housing in North <br />Carolina as of August 1, 1968. <br />4. A man showing distribution of Public Housing Developments in <br />North Carolina as of April 1, 1968. <br />5. A table showing Use of Federal Home Financing Incentive and Direct <br />Loan Program in North Carolina in Relation to Estimated Housing <br />Starts, 1962 and 1967.