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Minutes of the Board of County Commissioners 309 May 6, 1963 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Monday, May 6, 1963, at ten o'clock a.m. in the Commissioners room at the courthouse in Hillsboro, N. C. Members present: Chairman Donald Stanford, Commissioners Harvey D. Bennett, Gordon Cleveland, Carl M. Smith and Henry Walker. Members absent: None. The minutes of the April meetings were read by the Clerk and approved by the Board after some corrections were made. The following road petitions were presented and the Clerk was requested to mail same to the State Highway Commission. 1. 15-501 By-Paas across from Tar Heel Motel 2. Road #1308 3. Road begins at the intersection of Old Highway #10 and runs thru to the intersection with St. Mary's Road. It has four section designated as: 1. Colonial Heights Section 2. Golf Course Section 3. Spring Valley Section 4. Palmers Grove Section A request was presented from the Rev. George Davis, Pastor of Jones Grove Baptist Church, which is located three miles north of Hillsboro, N. C., on Highway #86 for the state to provide an ingress and egress for the congregation of said church. The Clerk was asked to write the State Highway Commission pertaining to Rev. Davis' request. A. H. Walker, Jr. Coroner, requested that the per diem for his office be changed from $8.00 to $16.00; that the mileage be changed from $.7 to $.10 and that the fee for holding a Coroner's Jury to set at $25.00. A lengthy discussion ensued concerning the coroner system and the duties and responsibilities plus the cost of the program. 1963: The following department officials presented reports for the month of April, Coshe Boggs, Dog Warden Edwin M. Lynch, Clerk of Court Jim Wight, Welfare Director and Betty June Hayes, Register of Deeds E. M. Lynch, Clerk of Court, informed the Board that be had employed a new bookkeeper and moved another of his employees to the position vacated by Mrs. Nancy Phelps. Re requested that the salary of the bookkeeper be set at $216.00 per month and the salary of the Deputy Clerk be set at $250.00 per month. Discussion ensued on this matter, but no action was taken. Jim Wight, Welfare Director, presented a graphic chart of the expenditures of his department through the period of April. Mr. Wight stated that the Foster Home Program had exceeded the funds budgeted, and he requested that funds sufficient to cover this program be transferred from the Hospitalization Program and the Aid to the Blind Program, as surpluses now were available in both these funds. Upon motion of Commissioner Walker, seconded by Commissioner Bennett, and unanimously adopted, the Welfare Director was authorized to transfer the needed funds from the Hospitalization Program and the Aid to the Blind Program to the Foster Home Program. Mr. Wight informed the Board that Orange County had been selected as one of the counties which could participate in a training unit program. Under this program graduate students from the UNC, School of Social Work, would train for a period of three months. These students would be under the supervision of a Supervisor appointed by the Welfare Director. The cost of this program would be underwritten by federal expenditures. The Board authorized the Welfare Director to proceed with the plans to have Orange County participate in this training unit program. Dr. 0. David Garvin, District Health Officer, requested an increase of $6,000.00 for::bis department; plus $500.00 for vaccine the addition of a sanitarian and salary increases for his employees, in the 1963-1964 budget. R. J. Smith, Sr., Chairman of the A.B.C. Board, and Dr. D. D. Carroll, member of said Board, presented the quarterly A.B.C, report. The difference in the nine months periods of 1962 and 1963 were stated. They are as follows: 192 $181,213.48 ----------------- difference $ 5,070.52 Upon motion of Commissioner Cleveland, seconded by Commissioner Walker, and