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The Chairman reported there would be a meeting in Raleigh on February 26th about budgetary matters.. The Board authorized Mrs. Beatrice Fields, Finance Officer, to attend said meeting. Commissioner J. Eugene Rogers reported to the Board on the need for repairs to the present Armory building. . Com issioner Rogers was authorized to conduct informal bidding and present his recommendations to the Board when he had ascertained what repairs needed to be made for the protection of the building. Commissioner Hal Hancock reported on the Landfill operations and advised the Board that the tractor had been repaired and was in good shape and in.operation at the Landfill site; that he and Frank Wicker were developing specifications'for a single axle truck for use as a back up collection vehicle. The Chairman reported that it was 8 o'clock and it was time to open the bids. Messrs. Pate and Mullins, Architects, opened the bids in the presence of the Board and read the results. A tabulation of all bids received is .attached to these minutes and by this reference made a part hereof. After the bids had been opened and reviewed,' Commissioner Rogers moved that the low bid of Bill's Carpet Service of $4,424. 13, the low bid of Coggin Heating Company of $3,440. 00,* and the low bid of Phillips Electric Company of $4, 100. 00, be accepted. Commissioner ;.Hancock seconded.the motion and upon a vote, Messrs. Cooper, Hancock, Rogers, F. Wicker and G. Wicker all voted for it and no one voted against it. Mr. •Howard Conder of the Tramway Rural Fire Department, and representatives of the other-,rural fire departments were in attendance, and Mr. Conder.spoke to the Board of Conunissioners. Mr. Conder stated that the commun- ity support for,the r'ur'al fiie departments were coming from a small group of citizens and the present group of fire protection needed to be reviewed. Commissioner Hancock, who serves as the Fire Commissioner, advised the Board that he would arrange.a meeting with the members of the rural fire departments and report their actions to the.Board. Mr. Stacy Budd, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Central Carolina Technical Institute, appeared before the Board and reported that the Trustees of.Central Carolina Technical Institute, had no objection to a National Guard Armory being built on the County Home Property at the intersection of Kelly Drive and Nash Street. Mr. Budd did state that Central Carolina Technical institute would prefer that any structure built on this site face on Kelly Drive. The Chairman then advised the Board that he had discussed the matter with the Town Officials and that they had advised him they would 'provide one-half of the local funds to construct an Armory at that site if the County would provide, the other-one-half of the local funds. Comm- issioner Cooper moved that'the County furnish to the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Division,of the National Guard, a letter of intent to the effect that the County would make a site of approximately 5 acres available, at the corner of Kelly Drive and Nash Street in Sanford, North Carolina, to the State of North Carolina, for the construction of a National Guard Armory and the County of Lee would provide one-half of the local funds required for such project. And, further, that said site be surveyed in order that a deed might"b'e prepared to carry out such intent. Commissioner Hancock seconded the motion. and upon' a vote, Messrs. Cooper, Hancock, Rogers, F. Wicker and G. Wicker all voted for it and no one voted against it. . There being no further business to come before the session it