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Mr. Jerry Henry McNeill appeared Before the Board and, requested that improvements be extended on •Secondary Road 1322".from the end of the present pavement to the end of the road. The Board directed the Clerk to determine what the status of this project is with the Department of Transportation. Monthly bills.as listed by the County Finance Officer were presented to the Board and reviewed and discussed. Commissioner John E. Dotterer moved that the bills be paid, Commissioner Hal L. Hancock seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously. adopted. Commissioner Hal L. Hancock presented to the Board the roster of the active firemen, of the Cape Fear Rural Fire Department; as of June 30, 1975." Commissioner Hancock moved that the list be approved and the Chairman authorized to certify a roster to the North Carolina Firemen's Pension Fund Division of the Department of State Auditor. Commissioner Franklin D. Wicker seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously adopted. . Mr. Leon Penney, Director, Ms. Gloria Bryant, Director of Housing and Community Development, and Mr. Jim Kornegay, Estimator and Construction Supervisor of the Johnston-Lee Community Action Agency, appeared before the'Board and discussed the CETA"Project and Housing Renovation. The Chairman announced that the time for the public hearing on the mobile home ordinance had arrived. Commissioner Franklin D. Wicker moved that the Board open the, public hearing. Commissioner Hal L. Hancock seconded the motion and it was unanimously adopted. Mr. John Berndt reviewed the proposed ordinance. Members of the public who spoke were Messrs. Boyd Douglas, Van Croce, Ed Hall, Jesse Calcutt, Jim Rumboldt, Fred Epley, Virgil. Cranford, Pete Hart, Ed Byrd and Hubert: Garner. A majority of,those speaking either operated mobile home parks or sold mobile homes. While some expressed the need for some regulation, the majority were opposed to the ordinance as drawn. After all had been given an opportunity to express themselves, the Chairman thanked them for their attendance and upon motion of Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Commissioner Hancoc},, the public hearing was closed, The Board, upon motion of Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Commissioner Franklin D. Wicker, authorized the Chairman and Clerk to execute agreements for easements to the Southern Railroad, for the sanitary sewer'line by the Allis-Chalmers Plant and the appropriation of $100.00 from the unappropriated surplus in the General Fund for payment for said easement, which is to come ultimately from bond funds. On a roll call vote, Messrs. Cooper, Dotterer, Hancock, F. Wicker *and G. Wicker, all voted for it and no one voted against it. Commissioner Franklin D. Wicker moved that the County Finance Officer send out a letter to.all departments and agencies advising them to be prudent in spending their budget appropriation and under no circum- stances are they to exceed their budgetary appropriation nor is the Finance Officer to approve any purchase orders in excess of such budgetary appropriation. Commissioner Cooper seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously adopted. Commissioner Hal L. Hancock gave,,a report on;the.Convention of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners. Commissioner Hal L. Hancock moved the adoption of the following resolution with respect to Mr, James L. Clark, Tax Supervisor of Lee'County: '