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DRAFT
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<br /> The Board of Com~issioners for the County of Cabarrus met in regular
<br />session in the Commissioners' Meeting Room at the Cabarrus County
<br />~overnmental Center in Concord, North Carolina on Monday, March 26, 2001, at
<br />6:30 p.m. By resolution adopted on February 19, 2001, the Board had changed
<br />the regular meeting date from March 19 to March 26. The Notice changing the
<br />regular meeting date was published in THE INDEPENDENT TRIBUNE on March 1,
<br />2001 and in TH~ C~LOTTE OBSERVER (Cabarrus Neighbors) on March 4, 2001.
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<br /> Present - Chairman: Arne L. Fennel
<br /> Vice Chairman= Robert W. Carruth
<br /> Comm~aaioners= Robert M. Freeman
<br /> Coy C. Privette
<br /> Richard D. Suggs
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<br /> Also present were Mr. Frank W. Clifton, Jr., County Manager~ Mr.
<br />Fletcher L. Hartsell, Jr., County Attorney; and Mrs. Frankie F. Bonds, Clerk
<br />to the Board.
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<br /> Chairman Fennel called the meeting Co order at 6:30 p.m.
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<br /> Commissioner Prseman led the Pledge of Allegiance.
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<br /> Chairman Fennel presented the following Proclamation asking all
<br />Cabarrus County citizens to fas= and pray for rain during the month of April.
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<br /> Proclamation
<br /> of
<br /> Cabarrus County, North Carolina
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<br /> Whereas, Cabarrus County has e~erience~ thirty-one (31) months of
<br />below-normal rainfall, and
<br /> Whereas, it has been fifty (50) years since drought has been this
<br />severe in Cabarrus County, dating back to 1948, and
<br /> Whereas, Cabarrns County and its cities are twenty-four (24) inches of
<br />rain below normal since ~id-lS98, and
<br /> Whereas, Lake Howell is ninety-nine (99) inches below normal, Lake
<br />Fisher is sixty-five (65) inches below no~-mal, Lake Concord is seventy-three
<br />(73) inches below normal and Kannapolis Lake is sixty-four (64) inches below
<br />normal, and
<br /> Whereas, ~od answers us in Job $0 when he said, 'where were you when I
<br />laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who
<br />determined its measurements? Surely you knowl Or who stretched the line
<br />upon it? TO what were its foundations fastened? or who laid
<br />cornerstone,...? Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth...
<br />when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band;
<br />when I fixed My limit for it... when I said, 'This far you may come, hut no
<br />farther, and here your proud waves must stop l' Have you commanded the
<br />morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, ...
<br />Have you Comprehended the breadth of the earth? ... Where is the way to the
<br />dwelling of light? And aarkness, where is its place, ... Who has divided a
<br />channel for the overflowing water, or a path for =he thunderbolt, to cause it
<br />to rain on a land where there is no one, a wilderness in which there is no
<br />man~ to satisfy the desolate waste, and cause to spring forth the growth of
<br />tender grass? Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
<br />... can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that an abundance of water may
<br />cover you? Who has put wisdom in the mind? Or who has given understanding
<br />to the heart?*
<br /> Therefore, Be It Resolved, that the
<br /> Month of April 2001
<br />be declared a month of fasting and prayer in Cabarrus County. Let every
<br />citizen in our county select hours, days or weeks to fast and pray that
<br />will bring abundant and adequate rainfall upon our county, that our lakes and
<br />streams and reservoirs will be filled again and that we will maintain above-
<br />normal rainfall throughout the coming year to replenish our land.
<br /> Let a copy of this proclamation be sent to every city and town in
<br />Cabarrus County so that they may Join with us in setting aside the month of
<br />April 2001 to seek the Lord for the needed rain.
<br /> Si~nsd this 26~ day of March 2001 ~ /s/ Arne L. Fennel
<br /> 7~ne L. Fennel, Chairman,
<br /> Cabarrus County Commissioners
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<br /> aeverend Bodney Queseuberry of Broadus Memorial Baptist Church gave the
<br />invocation.
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