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nou Commissioner Gordon A. Wicker moved that the Board of Commissioners rescind the action taken to employ a County Manager and that the funds allocated for this purpose be transferred to the current expense fund of the appropriation for schools in the budget estimate.. There was no immediate second and Chairman Franklin D. Wicker requested Vice-Chairman William H. Cooper to assume the chair, and then seconded the motion. Chairman Wicker spoke in favor of the motion and Commissioner Rogers' spoke in opposition to the motion and presented a paper setting forth the duties'aud responsibilities of a County Manager. Commissioner White moved the previous question and upon a, roll call vote, Messrs. Franklin D. Wicker and,.Gordon A. Wicker, voted for it and Messrs. Cooper, Rogers and White voted against it and the motion was dec- lared defeated. Chairman Franklin D. Wicker then resumed the Chair. Chairman Franklin D. Wicker announced that the time set forth in the advertisement for bids for Sanitary Landfill equipment and ambulances, had arrived, and the Board proceeded to open the bids. The bids received for ambulances were as follows: Superior Coach Company . . . . . $ 14, 120. 00 Crane - M & M Sales . . . $ 15, 000. 00 Simpson Equipment Company . . $ 17,270. 00 After discussion, the Board elected to accept the low bid of Superior Coach Company, in the amount of $14, 120. 00, upon motion of Commiss- ioner Cooper, seconded by Commissioner White and unanimously adopted. Messrs. Cooper, Rogers, White, G. Wicker and F. Wicker all voted for it. The Board then proceeded to open the bids received for trucks: They were as follows: Lee Motor Company . . . . . . . . $ 17, 042. 69 Holt Truck & Tractor Co. . . . . $17;510.40 Simpson Equipment Company . . . $ i7,150. 00 The Board took these bids under advisement since some bidders had bid on a conventional cab and others had bid on the requested tilt cab. The Board then proceeded to open bids for a front-end loader for use at the Sanitary Landfill and received only one bid, that of North Carolina Equipment Company, for $35, 000. 00. The Board took this matter under advise- ment. The Board next opened bids on refuse equipment as follows: a) 30 yard compactor body for truck chasis. Simpson Equipment Company . $ 14, 284. 00 b) 30 containers Simpson Equipment Company . . . $ 7, 879.50 Roach-Russell, Inc. , also bid on each of these items but the compactor body was a package bid tother with a truck chasis, in the amount of $27, 582. 30, and their entire system was for a load-all container system and not the specified by. The bid for the 30 load-all containers was $7, 170. 00. The Board took this under advisement.