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<br />The following? resolution was introduced:
<br />RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
<br />OF OR4NGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
<br />At a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of Orange County held
<br />at its meeting room in the County Courthouse of Orange County on May 1;., 1970,
<br />pursuant to due and published notice, at which a quorum of the Hoard was present,
<br />on motion, duly seconded the following motion was unanimously adopted:
<br />WH~iR95, North Carolina Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Ina., s corporation
<br />organized and doing business under the laws of the State of North Carolina, has
<br />reauested that the Board of County Commissioners of Orange County close a certain
<br />road au_~euant to North Carolina General Statute 153-9 (17), which said road
<br />reauested to be closed is located as follows:
<br />Outside the town limits of the Town of Chapel Bill in that
<br />subdivision known as Cedar Terrace Annex, as surveyed and slatted
<br />byy'' Hunter Jones, C, E, which plat is recorded in Plat Book 6 at Page
<br />78, Orange County Registry, more particularly, that portion of Lakeview
<br />Ilrive South, also knoim as Carriage Lana, which extends from a line
<br />formed by the intersection of the west line of Lakeview Drive West
<br />extended with the south line of Lakeview Drive South extended, in a
<br />westerly direction and then in a southerly direction to the northern
<br />line of the Old Chapel Hill Road (N, C. 17l~0), being a road 60~ in width
<br />ae shown on said pplot, to which plat reference is hereby made, Said
<br />road abuts lots 38-$0 and lot 66~of said subdivision and other property
<br />to the North and West,
<br />WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Orange County heard said
<br />request at its public meeting on May l}, 1970, at 11:OD a. m, and no one in opposition
<br />to said reouest appeared at the meeting; ~,
<br />WHEREAS, the Hoard of County Commissioners of Orange County made the following I'
<br />findings pursuant tv the provisions of North Carolina General Statute 1$3-9 (17):
<br />1, That North Carolina Hlue Cross and Blue Shield, Inc, holds the fee simple
<br />title to all of the. property abutting the road rea_ueated to be closed on both sides ~
<br />along its entire length as dedicated,
<br />2. That the road sought to be closed has not at any time been maintained by
<br />the State Righway Cotmnisaion of the State of North Carolina nor is it under the
<br />control or supervision of the State Highway Cotrmtisaion,
<br />3, That notice of this meeting has been published once a week for four weeks
<br />in a newspaper published in the county,
<br />1!.. That it appears to the satisfaction of the Board of Commissioners that
<br />the closing of said road is not contrary to the public interest and that no
<br />individual owning property in the vicinity of acid road or in the subdivision in ~
<br />which it is located will thereby be depriged of reasonable means of ingress and
<br />agrees to his property.
<br />THEREFORE, BE TT RESOLVED that the road described above be and is hereby i
<br />closed pursuant to the provisions of North Carolina General Statute 1$3-9 (17),
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<br />Upon motion of Commissioner Ward, seconded by Commissioner Ray, the request
<br />of North Carolina Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Inc, to close the road known locally ~
<br />as Carriage Lane and/or Lake View Drive South was aaproved,
<br />Chairman Smith recognized Donald Roberts, Chairman of the United States
<br />Department of Civil Defense Committee, and Burch Compton, Civil Defense Director.
<br />Mr, Compton stated that he had met with the United States Department of Civil
<br />Defense Committee and that the following recommendations relative to the
<br />eatablishmant of a Civil Defense Unit were being brought to the Hoard of Commissioners
<br />and they are as follows:
<br />Provide facilities for a com_.nunication center, meeting room, office and I
<br />emergency operation center and make available the sum of $1,p00.C0 for converting
<br />-. the current storage room and coal bin area of the courthouse for use of the i
<br />~ previously referred facilities plus the sum of $2,000.00 for the employment of
<br />clerical assistance.
<br />._ Discussion ensued relative to Mr, Compton~s request. Chairman Smith reauested
<br />that Commissioner Walker and the County Administrator work jointly with NIr, dompton
<br />in the matter of locating proper space for the housing which had been requested by
<br />the Civil Defense ~]irector,
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<br />Upon motion of Commissioner Ward, aecondad by Cominisaionar Ray, it was moved
<br />and unanimously adopted, that the sum of $500,00 be allooated from the contingency
<br />fund to the Civil Defense Program.
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