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<br />eaa~ '~ PacE 3~i <br />MINUTES OF THE ORANQE COUNTY <br />HOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />November 17, 1970 <br />The Board of Commissioners of Orange County met in adjourned session at <br />8 o~aloak P.M. on Tuesday, November 17, 1970, in the Cotmnisaioners Room at <br />the Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />Members Present: Commissioner Henry S, Walker, William C. Ray, Hareey D. <br />Bennett and Ira $. Ward. <br />Members Absent: Chairman Carl M. Smith. <br />Commissioner Henry Walker assumed the Chairmanship oP the meeting sa <br />Vice-Chairman of the Board. <br />The following persona ware present: Dr: Roy Lindahl, Mr. Roy Deal, Robert <br />Peak, Bill Britt, Fred Cates, Virgil Wilkins and Roger Foushae. <br />This meeting was called for the purpose of discussing the feasibility of <br />calling an election on the Local Option Sales Tax aaeation. <br />Vice Chairman Walker requested that the representatives of the various <br />agenaiea oP gevernment express their opinion to said matter. <br />Dr. Lindahl, representing the Chapel Hill 3choel Board, stated that the School <br />Beard did support the propaaed election as the Board felt it would provide <br />significant money for new school programs. <br />Mr, Deal, representing the County Board of 8ducatiAn, stated that his Board <br />had not recently disauaeed the matter, but that he Pelt they would support the <br />calling of the election. <br />Mr. Peck, Manager of the Town of Chapel Hill, stated that the Chapel <br />Hill Board of Aldermen had voted to support the Local Option Sales Tax election. <br />Mr. Britt, Manager of the Town of Carrboro, stated that the Carrborv Town <br />Board of Aldermen did support the proposed calling of an eleatioa. <br />Fred Cates, Mayor :of .the:Tvwn of Hillabarvugh, stated that he supported s <br />Local Salsa Tax Election-; but he had not discussed t}ie matter with his Board. <br />Mr, Wilkins, Manager of the Town of Mebane, stated that he had not recently <br />diaausaed the matter of a Local Option Salsa Tax with the Mebane Board of <br />Aldermen and that he was not i.n the position to make any statement relative to the <br />opinions of the Board members. <br />Mr. Foushae stated that he wsa present sa an interested citizen and that he <br />Pelt he could support the proposed election. <br />Disauesion ensued and it was reconmiended that the County call a Local <br />Option Salsa Tax Election sometime between the dates of February l5, 1971 and <br />March 1, 1971. <br />There being no further business to come before the Board the meeting was <br />adjourned. <br />Henry S. Walker, Vice Chairman <br />3. M. Gattis, Acting Clerk <br />