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MINUTES OF THE ORANGE COUNTY @OuK :~ PAGE ~i~ BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS October 5, 1970 The Board of Commissioners of Orange County met in regular session at 10:00 o~claek A. M. on October 5, 1970, in the Commissioners Room at the Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Members Present: Chairman Carl M. Smith, and Commissioners Harvey D. Bennett, William C. Ray, Henry S. Walker and Ira A. Ward. Members Absent: None Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved after corrections. C. W. Davis, Orange County~s representative to the R C & D Development Commission, was present to extend an invitation to the members of the Board to attend the annual R C & D banauet which has been soheduled for October 27, 1970. Mr. Dania further called the attention of the Board to the Pact that the trucks which were hauling gravel and other material for the construction of highway 86 North were using old highway $6 and thus oausing considerable damage to this highway. Mark $urnham presented a letter from Pearson H. Stewart which was addressed to Charles Johnston, Chairman of the Orange County Planning Board. Attached to said letter was a comparison of prospective sewerage study areas. Said study had been prepared by the Research Regional Triangle Planning Commission as a i result of the reaueat from the Board of Commiasionara and the County Planning Board. Copies of said draft ware given to each member of the Board and the clerk I was instructed to file a cony with the other material received at this meeting. Chairman ~nith advised the Board that he and Mr. Yernon had attended .a aounail of government meeting and that the Calvaader area was being considered for industrial development. Clarence Jones, Chairman oP the Human Relations Council, reviewed the membership of the aounoil with the Board. He stated that there were sixteen _ members who were active and interested, however, ha Headed to have four more persona appointed in order to bring the original number to twenty. Discussion ensued and Mr. Jones suggested that it might be wise to include at least two high achpol students Por appointment to the council. The County Administrator was directed to contact the principal of Orange High School and request that recommendations be made as to prospective nominees. Chairman Smith reviewed the following items with the Board: A letter from the Manager of the Nursing home located on the American Legion Road requesting the speed limit on said road be lowered to thirty-five (35) miles per hear due to the foot some of the residents of the home used the road. The Clark wee instructed to write the State Highway Commission reauesting that the speed limit on said road be designated as thirty-five (~5) miles per hour. i That he had been informed that apace must be provided for the Drivers License Examiner in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area and that in discussing the matter it had been suggested to him that the County try to secure funds for the building of a highway patrol headquarters which would house the patrolmen of the area and which would -also house-the licenae7 examiner. Chairman Smith stated further that apparently a number of Durham County residents did utilize the faoilities currently located in the Southern part of the County and that it. had .been suggested to him that a State Highway Patrol building should be erected on the Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard. Discussion ensued. The Clerk was instructed to write the State Highway Patrol headquarters and make inquiry as to the regulations which governs the securing of funds and how to proceed in the matter of making application for the building of a patrol headquarters, Commissioner Sennett informed the Board that at a Council of Government meeting in Hillsborough a representative of the Chamber of Commerce had discussed ' with him the matter of the license examiners office, which is currently housed in space owned by North Carolina National Sank. It was suggested that the County of Orange and the Town of Chapel Hi11 aoasider making some type of financial re-numeration fnr the use of this facility. goward Lea, Mayor of the Town of Chapel Hill, and Joe Nsasif, Town Alderman, agreed to pursue the suggestion with the Hoard of Aldermen of the Town of Chapel Rill. Discussion ensued. A letter from the State Board of Realth regarding policies of employment for local Health Directors and a holiday schedule and attendance leave ware also presented. A statement of State and Federal participation in the 1970-1971 expenditure for County Social Services Administration was presented and reviewed.