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448 The Board of COmmissioners for the County of Cabarrus met in regular session in the Commissioners' Meeting Room at the Cabarrus County Covernmental Center in Concord, North Carolina on Monday, December 15, 1997, at 6:30 P.M. Present - Chairman: Sue B. Casper Vice-Chairman: Carolyn 5. Carpenter Commissioners: Jeffrey L. Barnhart Kenneth Mills Or. Franklin C. Nfblock, Jr. Also present were Mr. Frank W. Clifton, Jr., County Manager; Mr. Fletcher L. Hartsell, Jr., County Attorney; and Mrs. Frankie F. Bonds, Clerk to the Board. Chairman Casper called the meeting to order at 6:30 P.M. Cub Scouts Aaron McPherson, Bain Wilson and Toby Reel of Pack 623 of the Bethel United Methodist Church conducted the Flag Ceremony. Dr. Sammie Ports, President of Barber-Scotia College, gave the invocation. At the request of Commissioner Mills, and by general consensus of the Board, the following invocation by Dr. Ports is included as a part of the minutes. Let Us Pray--- "Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good", but that's exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values. We confess that: We have ridiculed the absolute of Your Word and called it moral pluralism; We have worshiped other gods and called it multi-culturalism; We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle; We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery; We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation; We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare; We have killed our unborn and called it choice; We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable; We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building esteem; We have abused power and called it political savvy; We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition; We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression; and We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; try us and see if there be some wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been ordained by You to govern this county. Grant them Your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your will. I ask it in the name of your Son, the Living Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen. ~pproval or Correction of Minutes UPON MOTION of Commissioner B4rnhart, seconded by Commissioner Carpenter and unanimously carried, the minutes of November 17, 1997 were approved as written. Approval of the Agenda Chairman Casper asked that s letter from the Piedmont Farmers Market be added under Reports. Mr. Clifton asked that an item be added to New Business concerning the scheduling of a public hearing for a Community Development Block Grant-Economic Development project grant application.