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® BOOK 8 PAGE 256 moved that the School Board be authorized to employ an architect to prepare plans for the relocation of the school bus garage at the Jonesboro Middle School site. Commissioner Cooper seconded the motion and upon a vote, it was unanimously adopted. (B) With respect to the request for extension of water and sewer lines to the Jonesboro Middle School site, Commissioner Rogers moved that the Board of Commissioners authorize the engineering firm of Pate & Mullins to prepare plans for the extension of both water and sewer to said plans and to authorize Commissioner William H. Cooper to work with said firm in the preparation of such plans. Commissioner Hancock seconded the motion and upon a vote, it was unanimously adopted. (C) The School Board requested that office space be made available on the fourth (4th) floor of the County Office Building. The Board of Commissioners authorized Commissioner Franklin D. Wicker to relocate the present county offices from the fourth (4th) floor to the fifth (5th) floor and to renovate the fourth (4th) floor for use by the school board. (D) The School Board requested that the parking spaces on the upper level of the County's parking building be made available to the school board for its use. Commissioner J. Eugene Rogers moved that all of the presently available spaces on the upper level of the County parking building be designated for school board use and that as leases expired or terminated on the other spaces that they be made available to the School Board for its use. The School Board rep'orted that it desired to purchase additional land at the Warren Williams School site, and that this land as shown on the map presented to the Board could be purchased for $6,800.00. The purchase of the site was approved upon motion of Commissioner William H. Cooper, seconded by Commissioner J. Eugene Rogers, which motion was unanimously adopted. -2-