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BOOK S PAUE 190 MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR LEE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA Monday, March 19th, 1973 The regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners for the County of Lee, State of North Carolina, convened in the Commissioners' Room on the second floor of the County office building at the corner of Steele and Wicker Streets in the City of Sanford, at 7 o'clock p. m., on Monday, March 19th, 1973. Commissioners William H. Cooper, Hal L. Hancock, J. Eugene Rogers, Franklin D. Wicker and Gordon A. Wicker were present. Chairman Gordon A. Wicker presided and the following business was transacted: The minutes of the meeting held on March 5th, 1973, were read, approved and ordered recorded. Sgt. Jones of the National Guard appeared before the Board and stated that the local National Guard Unit wanted to hold a clean-up day on April 14th, and asked that the Landfill be kept open on that date to accommodate the loads of debris that they might collect. Commissioner Hancock advised the Sergeant that the Landfill was open and would observe its normal hours on that date in order to accommodate the project. Upon motion of Commissioner William H. Cooper, seconded and unanaimously adopted, it was RESOLVED to turn all delinquent accounts for Ambulance services over to the Sanford Credit Services for collection. Commissioner Cooper reported that extra work had to be done on the Airport Planning Project and that the County's portion of the bill would come to $736.25. Commissioner Cooper moved that the sum of $736.25 be approp- riated from the unappropriated surplus in the General Fund to the Planning Project for the Airport. Commissioner Hal Hancock seconded the motion and upon a roll call vote it was unanimously adopted. Messrs. Cooper, Hancock, Rogers, F. Wicker and G. Wicker all voted for it and no one voted against it. Commissioner F. Wicker requested that in the future the aproval of the Board of County Commissioners be secured before any work was authorized. Chairman Robert Dalrymple and Messrs. Paul Barringer, J. G. Edwards, C. M. Wicker and Dr. Ben Brooks, of the Lee County Board of Education, appeared before the Board. Commissioner Dalrymple requested that the Board of Commissioners make funds available for the Lee County Board of Education to engage an Architect and to acquire a school site and to begin preliminary drawings for the construction of a high school. There was consid- erable discussion concerning the location of the school, the need for merger of the school system and other facets of school operation. Chairman Gordon Wicker asked that no action be taken upon this request until he had had an opportunity to appear before the City Board of Education to discuss merger in the same manner as he had appeared before the Lee County Board of Education at their last meeting. After further discussion, consideration of this request was tabled.