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Walter Burr was asked to investigate Everette Helm's request that the County pay one-half of the cost of five new'radios for the rescue squads. Walter Burr, Fire Marshall, reported that he had visited all the schools and would see the fourth graders four times a year. Commissioner Gallimore made motion, seconded by Commissioner Hammett and carried, to appoint Walter Burr as Safety Director for the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. Chairman Hawfield reported that five (5) acres of land was purchased from Wannie Cress Richard in Township 5, adjacent to the sanitary landfill. After a brief discussion of the Revenue Bond Amendment, Commissioner Hammett made motion, seconded by Commissioner McClary and carried, to adopt the following resolution. WHEREAS, on April 8, 1974, the North Carolina General Assembly did ratify and enact, by votes of 103 to 3, Chapter 1222 of the SesSion Laws of North Carolina, and WHEREAS, this act amends Chapter V of the Constitution of the State of North Carolina so as to authorize the issuance of Revenue Bonds to finance industrial facilities including pollution control facilities, and WHEREAS, this act provides that the amendment is to be submitted to the qualified voters of the State on November 5, 1974, .in the form that will allow a vote for or against "...constitutional amendment to create jobs and employment opportunities and to protect the environment by authorizing the issuance of Revenue Bonds to finance industrial and pollution control facilities...", and WHEREAS, this method of financing is now available to industry in forty-eight of fifty states, and WHEREAS, the cost of adequate treatment to all types of pollution discharges continue to increase on a daily basis, and as Industrial Revenue Bonds financing has become a widely respected and established method of obtaining funds at attractive interest rates and on an attractive term of payment; and, WHEREAS, this method of financing is not available to the citizens of North Carolina's existing manufacturing community; and North Carolina's Communities are not able to choose whether or not they will offer prospective or existing employers the method of financing existing in surrounding states; and, WHEREAS, these conditions represent an intolerable competitive disadvantage to North Carolina Industry and to North Carolina Communities who want to do this type of financing; and WHEREAS, the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, at their annual meeting in August of 1974, did adopt a resolution endorsing this change to the North Carolina Constitution; and NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners do endorse and support the pending Amendment to Chapter V of the North Carolina Constitution. John Sharpe Hartsell thanked the Board for allowing him to be the official delegate to the Bi- centennial convention at New Bern, North Carolina. The Board granted Rowan Technical Institute the use of the Courtroom for one night a week for an eight week course in Cabarrus County history, contingent that it does not conflict with court.