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222 Minutes of the Board of Commissioners <br />Jose 5, 1961 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met on Monday, June 5, 1961, at ten o'clock a.m, in <br />the Commissioners room at the courthouse in Hillsboro, N. C. <br />Members present: Chairman Donald Stanford, Commissioners Harvey Bennett, Clarence D. Jones, <br />Donald McDade and Henry Walker. <br />Members absent: None <br />The minutes of the previous meeting were read by the Clerk and approved by the Board. <br />The following department officials presented reports for the month of May, 1961: <br />Cache Boggs, Dog Warden ? Frances Mcaskill, Ylelfare Sept. <br />Frank Frederick, Delinquent Tax Collector Mrs, David Given, County Librarian <br />E. M. Lynch, Clark of Court <br />A road petition was submitted for Morgan Creek road in Chapel Hill, The Clerk was requested <br />to mail same to the State Highway Commission office in Greensboro, N. C. <br />A letter from Robert D. Boyce, Chairman of the Chapel Hill Charter of American Field Service, <br />Student Exchange Program, requesting permission to conduct a fireworks display at Emerson Field in <br />connection with their annual July lath festivities was read by Chairman Stanford. <br />Upon motion of Commissioner Jones, seconded by Commissioner Bennett, and unanimously adopted; <br />Mr. Boyce was granted permission to have a fireworks display on July hth at Emerson Field provided <br />that adequate precautions would be taken to provide for the publics safety. <br />The following petitions was received from the Greater Chapel Hill Fire Protection District <br />Commission: <br />Pte, the undersigned members of the Greater Chapel Hill Fire Protection District Commission, <br />in accordance with the provisions of Section 60-25.11(a) of the General Statutes of North Carolina, <br />as amended by Chapter 302, Session Laws of 1957, and upon application of a majority of the owners of <br />property in the territory hereinafter described, do hereby unanimously recommend to your Honorable <br />Hoards that the following described territory be added to the present territory of the said District: <br />Blocks A and B, comprising thirty-two (32) lots in the North Forest <br />Hills Sub-division, according to a plat registered in Flat Book 7, <br />page 36, in the Register of Deeds' Office in Orange County, which <br />sub-division adjoins the Greater Chapel Hill Fire Protection District <br />at the boundary of the district. <br />We respectfully request that your Honorable Boards approve this recommendation, in order that, <br />upon such approval, the territory of the District be enlarged, as provided in the cited statute, to <br />include the above-described territory. <br />We further request that, upon such approval, the Board of County Commissioners levey the fire <br />protection district tax upon the property included in this territory in the fiscal year next following <br />such approval, and that the Board of Aldermen furnish lire protection to the territory immediately <br />upon such approval in the same fashion as it now protects property in the present District, under <br />contract of September 10, 1956. <br />/s/ John Alexander Mewahon <br />Isl E. G. L6erritt <br />June 17, 1961 Isl Samuel H. magill <br />Commissioners <br />We, the undersigned members of the Greater Chapel Hill Fire Protection District Commission, <br />in accordance with the provisions of Section 60-25(a) of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as <br />amended by Chapter 302, Session Laws of 1957, and upon application of a majority of the owners of <br />property in the territory hereinafter described, do hereby unanimously recommend to your Honorable <br />Boards that the following described territory be added to the present territory of the said District: <br />Beginning at the point where the center line of N. C. Route k86 crosses <br />the Northern Boundary of the Greater Chapel Hill Fire Protection District; <br />running, thence in a Westerly direction, with the Western Boundary of the <br />said District for a distance of one hundred feet; thence in a Northerly <br />direction, parellel to N. C. Route R86, and one hundred feet from the <br />center-line thereof, including property of the University of North Carolina, <br />to the Southern Boundary of the subdivision known as Glenn Heights; thence in <br />Westerly and then Northerly direction, following the boundary line between <br />the property of the University of North Carolina and the said subdivision, <br />to the Northwest corner of the said subdivision; thence in an Easterly <br />direction, following the boundary line between the said subdivision and <br />the property of William Dixon, to N. C. Route m`86; thence in a Southerly <br />direction, along the center line of N. C. Route `n'86 to the beginning point. <br />We respectfully request that your Honorable Boards approve this recommendation, in order that, <br />upon such approval, the territory of the District be enlarged, as provided in the cited statute, to <br />include the above-described territory. <br />We further request that, upon such approval, the Board of County Commissioners levy the fire <br />protection district tax upon the property included in this territory in the fiscal year next <br />following after such approval, and that the Board of Aldermen furnish fire protection to the <br />territory immediately upon such approval in the same fashion as it now protects property in the <br />present. District, under contract of September 10, 1956. <br />Isl John Alex Mdahon <br />June 3, 1961 /s/ Samuel H. Magill <br />Isl E. G. Merritt Commissioners