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MINUTES OF THE ORANGE COUNTY KKK 7 PAGE 105 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS April 1, 1968 The Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange, North Carolina, met in regular session at the County Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina, at 10 o, clock A.M., on Monday, April.1, 1968. Present: Chairman Harvey D. Bennett, and Commissioners, William C. Ray, Henry S. Walker, Carl M. Smith and Ira A. Ward. Absent: None Minutes of the previous meetings were read and approved. George Spransy of Dogwood Acres, Chapel Hill, North Carolina presented the Orange County Board of Commissioners a petition, consisting of seven separate petitions. Said petition contained the signatures of 121 freeholder residents of the Dogwood Acres area and requested that a Sanitary District, known as the Dogwood Acres Sanitary District, be established. The County Administrator and the County Attorney advised the Board of Commissioners that the petitioning resident freeholders constituted the necessary percentage for the filing of said Sanitary District petition. The clerk to the Board received the Sanitary District petition and same was filed. Commissioner Ward introduced the following resolution which was read: RESOLUTION RELATING TO THE CREATION OF A SANITARY DISTRICT BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange: Section 1. That the Board of Commissioners has determined and does hereby find and declare: (a) That on April 1, 1968 a petition requesting the creation of a sanitary district in the Dogwood Acres area of Orange County was received by the Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange, a photostatic copy of which petition is as follows: NORTH CAROLINA ORANGE COUNTY PETITION FOR SANITARY DISTRICT TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF ORANGE, NORTH CAROLINA: We, the undersigned, constituting fifty-one percent or more of the resident freeholders or fifty-one percent or more of the freeholders within the proposed district hereinafter set out, do hereby petition the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Orange to establish a sanitary district known as the Dogwood Acres Sanitary District in complicance with Chapter 130, Article 12 of the General Statutes of the State of North Carolina. The primary object of the sanitary district is to obtain a supply of raw or filtered water for residents of the district for the preservation and procreation of the public health and sanitary welfare within the district. In addition to the aforesaid object, we request that the sanitary district be vested with the powers outlined in North Carolina General Statute 130-128. The proposed boundaries of the district are located entirely within Chapel. Hill Township, Orange County, North Carolina, and are indicated on a man entitled Dogwood Acres Sanitary District, prepared by Robert J. Ayers to which reference is hereby made, which boundaries are described by metes and bounds as follows: BEGINNING at a concrete monument located on the northern right-of way line of Dogwood Drive, being State Road 1962, at the Southwest corner of Lot 64 of Dogwood Acres Subdivision according to the map thereof recorded in Map Book 4, Page 113 of the Orange County Register; running thence along the southern line of said Lot 64 South 86 degrees 55 minutes East 278 feet to an iron pipe in the Southeastern corner of said Lot 64 of Dogwood Acres Subdivision. Thence North 8 degrees 03 minutes East 302 feet to an iron pipe located in the eastern corner of Lot 66 Dogwood Acres Subdivision; thence North 32 degrees 55 minutes West 1162.5 feet to an iron pipe in a rock pile in the line of Lot 74 of said Dogwood Acres Sub- division; running thence North 77 degrees 15 minutes West 1514 feet to an iron pine and pointers located in the Northwestern corner of Lot 87, Dogwood Acres Subdivision; thence North 5 degrees 45 minutes East 200 feet to an iron pipe, a corner of the Dogwood Acres Subdivision; thence North 64 degrees 53 minutes West 1552 feet to a point in the eastern right-of-way line of the Smith Level Road, being State Road 1919, an iron located in the Northwest corner of Lot 1, Dogwood Acres Subdivision; thence along the eastern right-of-way line of the Smith Level Road South 10 degrees 15 minutes West 300 feet, South 4 degrees 30 minutes West 162.6 feet to a point, thence continuing along the right-of-way line of the Smith Level. Road South 8 degrees 40 minutes East 777 feet to an iron pipe located in the Southwestern corner of Lot 14, Dogwood Acres Subdivision; thence South 83