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PACE 838 9 Commissioner Jack D. Funderburke seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously adopted. Representatives of Williams & Works, appeared before the Board and presented a report on the Water Study. The engineers presented a map recommend- ing the proposed boundary of the planning area for the wastewater facilities plan. The planning area is the majority of the County with the exception of a part of Pocket and Greenwood Townships and is shown on the map attached hereto and by this reference made a part of these minutes. Commissioner Gordon A. Wicker moved that the area be approved for the 201 Study Plan. Commissioner Lila P. Nielsen seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously adopted. Mr. Buchanan reported that the head of the Division of Environmental Control of HUD had advised him that due to new regulations which were recently p into effect, it would be necessary to re-develope a good part of the Environmental Review Record for the 1980-81 Development Program. Williams and Works has advised him there would be an additional charge of $500. 00 for this service. Comm- issioner Lila P. Nielsen authorized the employment of Williams & Works, Inc. , for the preparation of the revised Environmental Review Record for the Community Development Project in San-Lee Heights on the same basis as the other additional services listed in their contract, that is, on a per diem basis not to exceed $500. 00. Commissioner Gordon A. Wicker seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimous- ly adopted. The contract between the Lee County Board of Commissioners and Cameron & Hager, Attorneys, for legal services to be rendered to the Department of Social Services was presented to the Board. The contract was approved and the Chairman was authorized to execute it for and on behalf of the County, upon motion made by Commissioner Lila P. Nielsen, seconded by Commissioner Jack D. Funder- burke, which motion was unanimously adopted upon a vote. The contract between North Carolina Governor's Highway Safety Program and Lee County for child restraint devices for use when case workers are transporting foster children in their automobiles was presented to the Board. The contract was read at length and discussed by the Board. The following resolution was offered by Commissioner Lila P. Neilsen and a motion was made by Commissioner Lila P. Nielsen that it be adopted, this motion was seconded by Commissioner Jack D. Funderburke and upon being put to a vote, was unanimously carried: WHEREAS, the County of Lee hereinafter referred to as the County, recognizes that children under the direct care of the County as wards of the state are entitled to full safety and health benefits available to the County, and WHEREAS, the North Carolina Governor's Highway Safety Program hereinafter referred to as GHSP, proposes to implement a program to assist Counties in protecting wards of the State against death and serious injury in automobile accidents by making available crash-tested automobile child restraint devices (CAD's) to municipal Social Services caseworkers who transport wards of the state in their automobiles and to educate the caseworkers as to the proper use of the CRD; PROVIDED, the County of Lee agrees to require that Social Service caseworkers will secure those wards of the state who weigh less than fifty (50) pounds in the CRD's provided when transporting them in cars, to use the CRD's provided to theCounty for a period of not less than two years, to provide manpower necess- ary to move the CRD's from vehicle to vehicle and location to location within the County as needed and to provide training in the proper installation and use of the CRD's for new caseworkers as they are hired, to act as a child transportation safety information districution source within the County using information and mater- ials provided by GHSP, to provide a report to GHSP every three months which'will include an estimate of the frequency of use of the CRD's by the caseworkers and to provide a yearly report , which