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8 FAGE 536 Chairman Gordon A. Wicker reported that the Sanford- Lee County Board of Education had requested $5,200. 00 to purchase a wrecker for use at the school garage. The Chairman had the Clerk read to the Board a letter received from the Sanford Boosters Club, Inc., wherein they supported the idea of expanding the proposed Armory to provide seating for 3,000 spectators at basketball games. The Chairman reported that Billy Ray Cameron, County Civil Preparedness Director, had completed a course on Civil Preparedness in August. { The Chairman had the Clerk read to the Board a letter from Wiley B. Teal, Director of Detention, Division of Youth Services, Department of Human Resources, concerning the possible construction and funding of a w, regional juvenile detention facility in the south central part of the state. The Board directed that Mr. Teal be invited to the'second meeting in October to discuss the matter. Mr. Elwin Buchanan, County Community Development Co- ordinator, appeared before the Board along with Messrs. Bracken, Mullins and Pate.of the firm of Pate-Mullins and Associates. Mr. Buchanan reviewed the status of the funded projects and also discussed planning for additional applications. Mr. Darrell. Mullins of Pate-Mullins and Associates, appeared before the Board and requested authority to secure joists for installation under the Armory floor. After discussion this was authorized as well as the installation of a termite screen around the building. Commissioner Hal L. Hancock moved that the following order directing the'Tax Collector to collect the taxes charged in the tax records and receipts be adopted: To the Tax Collector of the County of Lee: You are hereby authorized, empowered and commanded to collect the taxes set forth in the tax records filed in the office of the Tax Supervisor and in the tax receipts herewith delivered to you, in the amounts and from the taxpayers likewise therein set forth. Such taxes are hereby declared to be a first lien upon all real property of the respective taxpayers in the County of Lee, and this order shall be a full and sufficient authority. to direct, require, and enable you-to levy on and sell any real or personal property of such taxpayers, for and on account thereof, in accordance with law. Commissioner Franklin D. Wicker seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously adopted. Commissioner Franklin D. Wicker moved that the sum of $5, 200. 00 be appropriated from the Emergency and Contingency Fund in the General Fund to the School Capital Outlay Fund for the'purchase of a wrecker. Commissioner Hal L. Hancock seconded the motion. Upon a roll call vote, Commissioners Hal L. Hancock, Franklin D. Wicker and Gordon A. Wicker all voted for the motion and no one voted against it.