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BOOK O PACE 21 The Board directed that letters be sent to the Sanford Advancement Center, the local National Guard Unit, and to the Rainbow Girls for their activiiiesin clean-up programs each has sponsored recently. Dr. John E. Dotterer, Messrs. Perry White and Gilbert Matthews, Mrs. Roswald Daly and Miss Mary Scott Gurley, appeared on behalf of the Lee County Library Board. Dr. Dotterer served as spokesman and reported on the building program at Broadway and on the plans for the construction of a Library in downtown Sanford. The Library Board requested that the Commissioners make provision for the purchase of two lots on Haw- kins Avenue and for a method of financing for a building program in the amount of $200, 000. 00. Mr. Fred Beck and Mr. Erwin Thomas, appeared before the Board. There were no road petitions for the Commissioners to consider at this meeting and the Board discussed road matters, generally. Mr. Beck explained that he and Mr. Thomas were responsible only for the maintenance of existing roads but that the Board should write Mr. Henry Jordan, Traffic Engineer, expressing its concern about the number of wrecks which occur on Highway 87 in the vicinity of the Little River Bridge. Sheriff D. F. Holder appeared before the Board and requested the Board to execute an agreement with the North Carolina Department of Justice about the operation of the Police Information Network (PIN). It appearing that the Board had already provided funds for such operation in the Sheriff's budget and the Sheriff having requested the continuation of said pro- gram, the following action was taken: The following resolution was offered by Chairman Gordon A. Wicker, and a motion was made by Commissioner Hal L. Hancock,. that it be adopted, this motion was seconded by Commissioner J. Eugene Rogers, and upon being put to a vote, was unanimously carried; WHEREAS, the North Carolina Department of Justice Police Information Network plans to make avail- able to law enforcement agencies and other appropriate agencies of the State through the use of a centralized com- puter system various information now available or to be developed essential to the efficient operation of said agen- cies such as, but not limited to, information contained in the Department of Motor Vehicles' files, information con- tained in the National Crime Information Center, infor- mation contained in the State Bureau of Investigation's files, Department of Corrections' files, and information from local law enforcement agencies by the installation of a Police Information Network terminal in the County of Lee for a period of oneyear provided the County of Lee agrees to furnish a proper site for installing such terminal, and the necessary personnel to operate said terminal, and further agrees to assume the rental cost of such terminal at the end of one year from the date of installation; that said installation of a Police Information Net work terminal is considered to be most necessary to the preservation of law and order and the promotion of public safety within Lee County; and WHEREAS, the North Carolina Department of Justice Police Information Network and this County have agreed as follows: