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BOOK 20 PIGE 93 Department of Social Services, had been selected as the May 2006 Employee of the Month by the Employee Selection Committee. Chairman Hincks presented Ms. Weaver her awards which included a day off with pay, a star award, a framed certificate, a pizza from Papa Johns' Pizza, Coca Cola products from Sanford Coca Cola, and a movie rental from Move Gallery. Ms. Weaver will be considered for the Employee of the Year Award in December. The Board considered a request from the Board of Education for $300,000 to be paid to Hite Associates to begin preliminary engineering and architectural design work for a new middle school that was approved in the FY 2006-07 CIP. Superintendent Jim McCormick told the Board this preliminary/design study was only for the new middle school and did not include the gym/therapy room project for Floyd Knight School that was also approved by the Commissioners in their CIP proposal. Along with this request, the Commissioners were asked to approve a Capital Project Budget Ordinance designating $300,000 for the above mentioned project. Commissioner Adams questioned the revenue source which was listed on the Ordinance as Certificates of Participation (COPS). It was agreed that the Ordinance should state the revenue source would come from debt proceeds. After some discussion, Commissioner Adams moved to approve the Board of Education's request for $300,000 for Hite Associates to begin the preliminary engineering and architectural design for a new middle school, and the amended Capital Project Budget Ordinance, a copy of which is attached to these minutes and by this reference made a part hereof. Upon a vote, the results were as follows: Aye: Adams, Brown, Hincks, Lemmond, Paschal, Reives, and Stevens. Nay: None The Chairman ruled the motion had been adopted unanimously. Commissioner Reives asked that a letter be forwarded to the Chairman of the Board of Education expressing the Commissioner's concern that a response had not been received in reference to the Floyd Knight School project. Mr. Reives asked that the letter re-emphasize the importance the Commissioners were placing on the Floyd Knight School project. The Board considered a joint resolution to modify the Sanford-Lee County Airport Authority Charter. Economic Development Director Bob Heuts presented to the Board a joint resolution between the County, the City of Sanford, and the Economic Development Corporation to modify the original Airport Charter. Mr. Heuts stated that in 1992, the General Assembly created the Sanford-Lee County Regional Airport Authority to guide and direct the activities of the jointly owned airport. When the Charter was adopted, Lee County and the City of Sanford each appointed three members. At a recent meeting of the Airport Authority, it was requested that the General Assembly amend Session Law 1991-903 pertaining to the composition of the Airport Authority by adding one member so that the revised composition of the Board would be composed of seven members with two being appointed by the Lee County Board of Commissioners for the County of Lee; two by the Sanford City Council; and three ex-officio, voting members consisting of the Sanford City Manager, the Lee County Manager, and the 3