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~a <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />SPECIAL MEETING <br />JULY 25, 1988 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners held a special meeting on July 25, 1988 at <br />4:00 p.m. in the Commissioner's Meeting Room, l09 Court Street, Hillsborough, North <br />Carolina for the purpose of introducing the formal Bond Order and the sworn <br />statement of debt as part of the Bond Referendum process. <br />BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Vice-Chair Moses Carey, Jr., and Commissioners Stephen <br />Halkiotis, John Hartwell and Don Willhoit. <br />BOARD MEMBER ABSENT: Chair Shirley E. Marshall. <br />ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />STAFF PRESENT: Assistant County Manager Albert Kittrell, Clerk to the Board <br />Beverly A. Blythe, Deputy Finance Officer Ken Chavious and Finance Director Ellen <br />Liston. <br />STAGE II WATER SHORTAGE ALERT FOR AREAS SERVED BY OWASA <br />Commissioner Carey, having been provided with information that the water level <br />of University Lake is mare than 24 inches below full issued a public proclamation <br />declaring to all persons that a STAGE II WATER SHORTAGE ALERT is now in effect with <br />voluntary water conservation restrictions. <br />PROCEEDINGS (A signed copy of the proceedings is an attachment to these minutes an <br />pages 2~~~ Z~$ ) . <br />Commissioner Moses Carey, Jr. introduced and read the following three orders <br />authorizing bonds: <br />ORDER AUTHORIZING $22,000,000 <br />SCHOOL BONDS <br />WHEREAS, The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education and The Orange <br />County Board of Education have certified to .the Board of Commissioners for the <br />County of Orange, North Carolina, resolutions passed by said boards of education <br />showing that adequate school facilities are not now available in their respective <br />administrative units to comply with the requirements of Section 2 of Article IX of <br />the Constitution of North Carolina for the maintenance of schools nine months in <br />every year and that it is necessary, in order to maintain such nine months' school <br />term as required by said Section 2 of Article IX of the Constitution, to provide <br />additional school facilities in said units by erecting additional school buildings <br />and other school plant facilities, remodeling, enlarging and reconstruction <br />existing school buildings and other school plant facilities, acquiring any <br />necessary land, furnishings and equipment therefor and developing such land, the <br />estimated aggregate cost of which .is at least $22,000,000. <br />WHEREAS, said resolutions request said Board of Commissioners to take all <br />necessary steps, by the issuance of bonds or otherwise, in order that funds for <br />such school facilities may be provided; and <br />