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9 PAGE to refund the surn of $38. 9.1, to Mr. Jerry Hu for the 1979 taxes which were double listed.. Commissioner Gordon A. Wicker seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously adopted. The Board next considered the contract between the North Carolina Department of Commerce and Lee County, under which the County would provide the personnel to' conduct the necessary inspections and make the reports to carry out the Federal Emergency Temperature Restriction Program. Upon motion of Commissioner Lila P. Nielsen, seconded by Commissioner Jack D. Funderburke, the Chairman and Clerk were authorized and directed to execute the contract for and on-,behalf of the County and to deliver the executed contracts to the North Carolina Department of Commerce. The Clerk read to the Board the letter of Mr. James E. Coats, Director of the Lee County Department of Social Services, concerning the Abortion Program. The Abortion Program is a mandated program financed from state funds and,the Director was•requesting the County to place $10, 000 b6in;4he De'~tr ent of -Social Services Budget for the line item "Abortion". After discussion, Commissioner Lila P. Nielsen moved that the budget with respect to the Department of Social Services.. be amended to place $10,000.00, in the line item for Abortions witH.a corresponding amendment to show income from state funds for the same amount. ` Commissioner Jack D. Funderburke seconded the motion and upon a roll call vote, Commissioners Funderburke, Nielsen, Rhyne, Wicker and Harmon voted for-it and no one voted against it. The resignation of Reverend B. Gerald Bridges,- Sr. , Pastor of Cool Springs' Baptist'Chur.ch, as Chairman and member of the Advisory Committee for the Nursing Homes of Lee County, effective as of February 18, 1980, was pre- sented to the Board. -The Board accepted the resignation and upon resolution duly adopted, appointed the Reverend Bewey M. Shaver, to a one year term on the Lee County Nursing Home'Advisory Committee, and it re-appointed for three-year terms, Mrs. Cathy W. Bridges, Mrs. Ophelia Palmer, Mrs. Leonard Ascough and Dr. Mary Margaret McLeod, to that same committee. The following resolution with respect to Mr. James Lafayette Clark, Lee County Tax Supervisor,. was read to the Board: WHEREAS, MR. JAMES LAFAYETTE CLARK was appointed Lee County Tax Supervisor on September 11, 1961, and has served cohtinuously in this capacity since that time; and ' WHEREAS, MR. JAMES LAFAYETTE CLARK has supervised the valuation of all property in Lee County roan efficient and outstanding manner as well as having striven to ensure fair and, equal treatment of all Lee County's. Citizens; and WHEREAS, MR. JAMES LAFAYETTE CLARK was chosen as. North Carolina's Outstanding Tax Supervisor in 1975 as well as having served as President of the North Carolina Association of Assessing Officers during that year; and WHEREAS,- MR. JAMES LAFAYETTE CLARK has retired from his position as Lee County Tax Supervisor to be effective: February 29,. 1980; and WHEREAS,,it is the desire of the Board of Comm- issioners for Lee County to express its grateful apprecia- tion and thanks for a'job well done;