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BOG'f ~ PAGE 32a ~•• recommended by the U. S. Soil Conservation Service, to control Puture silting. Aa great as this asset is, the oounty is working on additional reservoirs for the future so that Orange County will not be caught with ton little acceptable water as is common place in so mush of the world. Along the same line, during this period, we put $100,000 Into enlarging the sewer line to the new Chapel Hi11 high School so that the area between the Town and the High School could be developed properly; we put $27,000 into enlarging part of the water line for orange-Alamanca Water System so that the beat use could be made of this system for both residential and industrial growth as well as adequate - two-way flow aonnectiona to neighboring systems; and we put $28,000 into enlarging _ -- the water line for Hillsborough so that future growth oould be served along with industrial growth that might come. These advances should prone to be good economy for the oounty in the years ahead, r- ~ - Tn 1967 Chapel Hill Township was zoned and in 1970 Sno Townahin was coned. We now have dedicated citizens of Orange serving vn the County Planning and Adjustment Boards and doing a very fine ~vb. The value to the county of their efforts will b® seen in the future. Several. pieces of land were acquired during this period to take sere of the expansion of oounty services. On these in 1968 we built a County Health Building at a cost of $123,000. In 1969, we built a County Sooial Services Building at a coat of $2!}3,000 to house the rapidly expanding program of this department. The coat of this building will be paid back by the federal government through monthly payments. I hesitate to mention the rapid growth of our "welfare" program but it is now Weak and neck with public education, each being about 11.5 of our total budget, and will soon move ahead. Time does not permit my going into mush detail about many of your oounty agencies but I would like to cotmnent on our register oP deeds office which is recognized as having one of the most progressive and modern offices in the State. This office is headed by Misa Betty June Hayes, who was recently Tar Heel of The Week, and is a past presideat of her state association and in 1969-1970 served as President of the National Association of County Recorders and Clerks. Revenues have increased from less than 2017 to almost l}217 in the last six years. Some highlights of the past eight years include on November 1, 1969, the converting of all records to 16mm microfilm. This resulted in a savings from over $1 per document in the old deed yr deed of trust books down to less than 1~ per document. The cartridge miorofilm is viewed through r~}'1.~00 Reader Printers of which the county now owns four. All vital statistics: births, deaths, and marriages have bean placed on 16mm - film for the purpose of saving storage space. There are about 80,000 of these vital statistics and they are contained on L~.2 cartridges. A11 plate have been placed on 35mm aperture cards and these cards are viewed through a #200 Reader Printer. It is estimated that this change of recording method will add 100 years of recording space to the Register of Deeds Office. The total cost of converting all records to film was about $]1.,200 as compared to the construction of a new vault which would have cost at least $lOD,000. Also, as of November 1, 1969, a data processing system of indexing of deeds and deeds of trust and all related instruments was instituted. Upon receiving a print out this new system will alphabetize all surnames and group together in one place all the transactions of a given individual and/or company. The new indexing system contains a brief description of the property being conveyed and upon completion oP the tax mapping in the county, the Register of beads is hopeful of being able to tie each land transfer in with the tax man number. There has been a complete survey of marriages from 1911 through 196(}. The Register of Deeds has created a master index[ for all brides. Heretofore, it was impossible to locate the name of the bride unless you knew the name of the groom. This at times caused problems in the search of this record. If the woman had re married her former record could not be located. New master indexes were also created for the grooms. The reason for this survey being that the office had no record of licenses which had been issued but which were not returned. There was no way that you could prove that the couple had secured a marriage license. The license stub books for the stated period were located and the survey was made from these stubs against the original license. There has also bean created an index far all minutes of the Orange County Board of Commissioners for the period of 1951} through the current date. This is an invaluable regard, in that, items can ba located by subSact. Prior to the creation of this index book you had to read each set of minutes in order to locate the needed reference. Upon transfer of the Corporate Charter records from the Clerk of Courts office there was created a master index for all corporate records and related instruments. No index had existed prior to 196$ except in the front of each Corporate Charter Book.