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BOOK 7 PA-GE272 E MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR LEE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA Monday, August 5th, 1968 The regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners for Lee County, convened at 10:00 o'clock a. m., eastern standard time, on Monday, August 5th, 1968, in the Commissioners' Room, at the Lee County Courthouse. Those pre- sent were: Vice-Chairman Charles Robert Yow, Max McLeod, Franklin D. Wicker, and A. E. White. Chairman John E. Dotterer was absent. Vice-Chairman Charles Robert Yow presided and the following business was transacted: The meeting was opened by a prayer given by the Reverend Richard F. Rundell, Pastor of the Rocky Fork Christian Church, Route 8, Sanford, N. C. The minutes of the meeting of July 1st and July 17, 1968, were approved and ordered recorded. Commissioner McLeod reported that one request for improvement of a Secondary Road had been received. The petition was to pave Arlington Circle in Longview Acres Subdivision and it appeared that the petition did not conform with the requirements of the State Highway Commission. The Clerk was directed to notify:, the petitioner that their request did not conform to the State policy and to explain the State' policy to them. The Vice-Chairman announced that it was 10:30 and the time to open bids for an ambulance as advertised by the Board. The only bid received was from Holt Truck and Tractor Company to furnish one ambulance in accordance with the advertised specifications in the amount of $7, 854.24. Commissioner Wicker moved that the bid be accepted and that the sum of $1, 854.24 be transferred from the con- tingency and emergency fund to the ambulance department fund for the purpose of purchasing said vehicle. Commissioner White seconded the resolution and it was unanimously adopted on a roll call vote, as follows: Aye: McLeod, White, Wicker and Yow No: None Dr. O. D. Garvin appeared before the Board and invited the Board to meet with him and his professional staff at a time and place of their choosing on August 13, 1968. Mr. Tom Howell, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Mr. Forrest Stevens, Director, of the Lee County Hospital, Inc. , appeared before the Board and requested the Board to purchase the site on Carthage Street for use by the Hospital. After discussion between the representatives of the Lee County Hospital, Inc. , and members of the Board of Commissioners, Commissioner McLeod moved the adoption of the following: