Total Federal
<br />Travel 8,000.00 6,000.00
<br />Medicaid 45, 000. 00 30, 308. 00
<br />Total 53, 000.00 36, 308.00
<br />State County
<br />180.00 1,820.00
<br />12, 487.00 2, 205. 00
<br />12, 667. 00 4,025.00
<br />Commissioner Rhyne seconded the motion. Commissioner Wicker stated that
<br />because of the turmoil in the Department of Social Services he could not support
<br />the motion. Upon a roll call vote, Commissioners Funderburke, Nielsen, Rhyne
<br />and Harmon voted for the motion and Commissioner Wicker voted against it.
<br />Commissioner Clyde J. Rhyne noted that all members of the Board
<br />needed to use their political influence to defeat the continual efforts to increase
<br />County share of various programs by the General Assembly.
<br />Mr. Elwin J. Buchanan, Grants Administrator, appeared before the
<br />Board and reviewed the status of the programs currently underway.
<br />Following Mr. Buchanan's report, Commissioner Clyde J. Rhyne
<br />moved that the recommendations of the Community Development Council, with
<br />respect to the closeout of the 1976Community Development program, as set out in
<br />its report of February 21, 1979, copy of which is attached hereto and by this ref-
<br />erence made a part of these minutes, be approved and adopted. Commissioner
<br />Nielsen seconded the motion and upon a roll call vote, Commissioners Funderburke,
<br />Nielsen, Rhyne, Wicker and Harmon, voted for it and no one voted against it.
<br />Commissioner Gordon A. Wicker moved that the Chairman of the
<br />Board be authorized to accept on behalf of the Board the low bid of the qualified
<br />appraisers who bid on the Community Development Program Demolition. Comm-
<br />issioner Rhyne seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously adopted.
<br />Grants, Director, Elwin J. Buchanan, reported on the visit of the
<br />representatives of the Housing and Urban Development with respect to the re-
<br />location program.
<br />Mrs. Beatrice Fields, Finance Officer, and Mr. Elwin J. Buchanan,
<br />Grants Director, gave a report on the meeting of the County Personnel Board and
<br />presented copies of the Proposed County Affirmative Action Program. These
<br />matters were discussed and reviewed, following which Commissioner Rhyne moved
<br />that the Affirmative Action Program be approved and adopted, as the County's
<br />Affirmative Action Program, effective immediately. Commissioner Nielsen
<br />seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously adopted.
<br />Mr. Joe Edwards, Mr. Worth Pickard and Mr. Jimmy Gaines, of the
<br />County Parks and Recreation Department, appeared before the Board and discussed
<br />the problem created by the collapse of the storm drainage pipe at Temple Park.
<br />Because of the emergency nature of the situation and the hazard that it presents to
<br />young people, the bids had been secured for the project and the bids were as
<br />follows:
<br />Sanford Grading Company, Inc. 29, 900.00
<br />Oldham & Oldham Construction Co. 33,500. 00
<br />N. C. Beal & Sons 32,240.00
<br />J. C. Johnson Construction Co., Inc. 31,560.00
<br />Commissioner Wicker moved that the low bid of Sanford Grading Co., Inc., be
<br />accepted and that the amount of $25, 900. 0.0; be appropriated from the unappropriated
<br />surplus in the General Fund to the Recreation Fund for such project,- Commiss-
<br />ioner Nielsen seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously adopted.
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