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~~4 Ir <br />MINUTES OF THE ADJOURNED REGULAR <br />MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />OF THE COUNTY OF LEE, NORTH CAR'OLINA' <br />Tuesday.May 16,' 1972 r <br />The adjourned regular,,meeting'of.the Board of Commissioners <br />for the County of Lee, convened in the County Office Building at the 'corner of <br />Steele and Wicker Streets in Sanford, at 9:30 o'clock a m., the same being <br />the time, date and place set out in'the motion of adjournment, adopted on-Mon- <br />day, May 15, 1972. Those present were Commissioners W. H... Cooper, J. <br />Eugene Rogers, Perry White, Gordon A. Wicker, and Chairman Franklin D. <br />Wicker. <br />Chairman Franklin D. Wicker presided and the following <br />business was transacted: <br />The minutes of the meeting held on Monday, May 1st, 1972, <br />were approved upon motion of Commissioner Rogers, seconded by Commissioner <br />Cooper, and unanimously adopted, upon a vote. <br />Mr. Ralph McCoig, Director, and Mr. Tommy Mann, a member <br />of the Board from the Lee-Harnett Mental Health Clinic, appeared before the <br />Board and presented their budget request. Mr. McCoig reminded the Board they <br />were invited to tour the O'Berry Clinic on May 31, 1972. <br />Commissioner W. H. Cooper read a letter received from <br />Dunning, Ltd., with respect to their planned addition and their request for water <br />and sewer connections. The Board authorized Commissioner Cooper to contract <br />Boney & Newcomb, Engineers, and obtain an estimate :of the costs of extending <br />such services to the proposed industrial site. <br />. Mr. John McPhaul and Mr. Orton J. Cameron, appeared before <br />the Board, on behalf of the Sanford Chamber of Commerce. The Sanford <br />Chamber of Commerce had adopted a resolution requesting that the Board <br />allocate a portion of the sales tax fund for educational purposes but they <br />desired the fund to be placed in a capital reserve fund to be kept under the <br />control of the Board of Commissioners <br />Commissioner W. H. Cooper stated to the Board the efforts <br />and expenses incurred in making presentations to industrial prospects and <br />requested that consideration be given for an appropriation to defray some of <br />the expense. <br />Commissioner Perry White reported that the bi-centennial comm- <br />ission for the American Revolution wanted Mr. Hal Siler to consider heading the <br />local committee to be responsible for the observance of this event. <br />Mr. E. M. Underwood, Jr. , was requested to consolidate the <br />budget requests received and to prepare a draft of the budget for consideration <br />by the Commissioners. <br />There was a discussion about recreation matters and the Board <br />was advised that Commissioner Rogers and the County attorney were to meet <br />with the City attorney and City recreation personnel to discuss the transfer of <br />property to the County, on Monday, May 22, 1972, at 7 o'clock p. m. <br />. <br />