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1560 BOOK 9 Mi Mr. Buchanan presented Change Order No. 1 to the GKN-Colon Osgood Water Line contract which provides for water taps for Mr. Hobart Wicker, in accordance with the County's agreement when it purchased the tank site from Mr. Wicker. Commissioner Rhyne moved that Change Order No. 1 be approved and the Chairman be authorized to sign it for and on behalf of the County. Commissioner Funderburke seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimous- ly adopted. Mr. Buchanan, Grants Director, reported to the Board that GKN desired to make changes in the water line near their plant site in order to have a fire hydrant within 50 feet of their pumping station. Commissioner Funderburke moved that the Chairman be authorized to execute such a Change Order provided GKN would pay any additional expense in connection with the change. Commissioner Rhyne seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously adopted. Mr. W. M. Womble, Sr. and Mr. John Ogburn, appeared before the Board and requested the Board consider adoption of Preliminary Condemnation Resolutions respecting four parcels of land needed to enlarge the Sanford-Lee County Airport. Several members of the Board stated that they had assured some of the property owners that they would view the premises before they took any action and therefore consideration of this matter was deferred until the date to which this meeting would be adjourned. Representatives of Williams & Works appeared before the Board and reported that the low bidders on Section "A" were W & W Contracting Company; on Section "B", Blue Contracting Company; and Ritchie Construction Company was low on Section "C" if the Board took the first alternate which was to put in 10 inch asbestos concrete pipe. The representatives of the engineering firm recommended that the Board elect to take alternate no. one in Section "C" and that the low bid of the firm stated above be accepted. Commissioner Rhyne moved that the Board accept the recommendations of its engineers and that it elect t~ take alternate i.o, one in Section "C" and that the low bid of W & W Contracting Company for Section "A", Blue Contracting Company for Section "B", and the low bid of Ritchie Construction Company for Section "C" be accepted, subject to the approval of such bids by the Economic Development Administration. Commissioner Nielsen seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously adopted. Mrs. Beatrice Fields, County Finance Officer, appeared before the Board and advised the Board that a draft had been received from the State of North Carolina for execution for medicare payments in the amount of $13, 067. 55, and that at the present time, only $4, 000. 00 was available for this purpose. How- ever, Mr. Coats, Director of Social Services, had advised her he had sufficient funds in other items which could be transferred to the medicaid account to cover this draft. Mrs. Fields advised the Board they could reasonably expect a similar draft for next month at which time an appropriation would have to be made before the draft could be executed and returned to the State Department of Social Services. Mrs. Beatrice Fields, County Finance Officer, appeared before the Board and presented. a list of accounts for ambulance services which were incurred in 1975 and on which all collection efforts have proved futile. She asked that she be relieved of responsibility of further efforts to try to collect said accounts since the Statute of Limitations had run upon them. Commissioner Funderburke moved that the County Finance Officer be relieved of further responsibility to try to collect the list of ambulance accounts incurred in 1975 which are set forth on the list attached hereto and which list is incorporated in these minutes by this refer- ence. Commissioner Wicker seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unani- mously adopted.