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102 <br /> <br />DRAFT <br /> <br /> The Board of Commissioners for the County of Cabarrus met in regular <br />session in the Commissioners' Meeting Room at the Cabarrus County <br />Governmental Center in Concord, North Carolina on Monday, Dece~0er 21, 1998, <br />at 6:30 P.M. <br /> <br />Present - Chairman: Jeffrey L. Barnhart <br /> Vice Chairman: Arne L. Fennel <br /> Commissioners: Carolyn B. Carpenter <br /> Sue B. Casper <br /> Coy C. Privette <br /> <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. <br /> <br />Chairman Barnhart called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. <br /> <br /> Boy Scout Troop 94 of the Mt, Pleasant Lion's Club conducted the Flag <br />Ceremony. Scouts Paul Culp and Jay Smith and Assistant Scoutmaster Jay Culp <br />participated in the ceremony, <br /> <br /> Reverend Breve James of the Central United Methodist Church gave the <br />invocation. <br /> <br />Approval or Correction of the Minutes <br /> <br /> UPON MOTION of Commissioner Fennel, seconded by Commissioner Casper and <br />unanimously carried, the minutes of Dece~oer 7, 1998 were approved as <br />written. <br /> <br />Approval of the Anenda <br /> <br /> UPON MOTION of Commissioner Casper, seconded by Commissioner Carpenter <br />and unanimously carried, the Board approved the Agenda as submitted. <br /> <br /> Mr. Clifton stated he had distributed a report concerning Economic <br />Development Incentives to the Board for review. <br /> <br />RECQGNITIONS ~ PRESENTATIONS <br /> <br />Presentation ~f Portrait of Stephen Cabarrus - JudGes Clarence Horton and <br />William G. Mambv, Jr. <br /> <br /> The Honorable Clarence Horton, North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge, <br />made the following remarks to the Board. <br /> <br /> December 29=h will mark the 206~ anniversary of passage by <br /> the North Carolina General Assembly of a bill which created a new <br /> county from the northeastern portion of Olde Mecklenburg. The <br /> county was called Cabarrus, in honor of Stephen Cabarrus, Speaker <br /> of the House of Commons, who put his considerable .influence <br /> behind passage of the bill. Monsieur Cabarrus was born in <br /> Bayonne, France, and came to seek his fortune in North Carolina <br /> during the early days of the American Revolution. He settled on <br /> the Albemarle Sound, and represented both the Borough of Edenton <br /> and County of Chowan in the General Assembly. Be was highly <br /> respected by his fellow legislators, being elected Speaker of the <br /> House of Commons on 10 occasions. He cast the deciding vote in <br /> the House of Commons for the legislation which fixed the <br /> permanent seat of state government at Raleigh. Cabarrus also <br /> voted for the creation of the first state university at Chapel <br /> Hill, and served on the University's first Board of Trustees. Me <br /> was an active Mason, and served as an officer in the Grand Lodge <br /> during its .reorganization in 1787. Stephen Cabarrus was a <br /> faithful Episcopalian, and is buried on the grounds of historic <br /> St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Edenton. <br /> <br /> Until 1994, it was thought there was no surviving portrait <br /> of Stephen Cabarrus. In that year, however, an original portrait <br /> of Cabarrus was dlscovured in the home of Mrs. Willism Cabala{ss, <br /> a great-great-great-grandniece now living in Birmingham, Alabama, <br /> Through the efforts of the North Carolina State Archives and <br /> especially Steve MasSengill, an iconographic archivist, the <br /> portrait was photographed and negatives were made available to <br /> me. With the help and advice of Sergeant Tsrry Black and <br /> <br /> <br />