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265 The Board of Commissioners for the County of Cabarrus met in adjourned regular session at the County Courthouse in Concord, North Carolina, on Thursday, January 14, 1988, at 7:00 P.M. Present - Chairman: James W. Lentz Commissioners: Kenneth F. Payne William G. Hamby, Jr. Martha H. Melvin R. Giles Moss The Chairman announced that this was the hour and day fixed by the Board of Commissioners for the public hearing upon the order entitled: "ORDER AUTHORIZING $25,000,000 SCHOOL BONDS" and that the Board of Commissioners would immediately hear anyone who might wish to be heard on the question of the validity of said order or the advisability of issuing said bonds. No one appeared, either in person or by attorney, to be heard on the question of the validity of said order or the advisability of issuing said Bonds and the Clerk to the Board of Commissioners announced that no written statement relating to said question had been received, except Dr. Joseph Fries, Superintendent of Cabarrus County Schools, who appeared in person and stated there were school facility needs and that it was important to proceed with addressing these needs; Mr. Bill Bonny, residing at Mt. Pleasant, who appeared in person and stated in his opinion there was no doubt there were school facility needs but he was concerned about the questions that had been raised on the financing plan for meeting these needs; Mr. Tom Rogers, residing at Concord, who appeared in person and stated that he as a parent supported the schoOl bond issue; and Dr. Grier Bradshaw, Superintendent of the Kannapolis City Schools, who appeared in person and stated support of the bond issue and the facility improvements the funds would provide in the Kannapolis City Schools system. Ail of the foregoing statements were duly considered by the Board of Commissioners. Thereupon, upon motion of Commissioner Payne, seconded by Commissioner Moss and carried, the order introduced and passed on first reading on January 4, 1988, entitled: "ORDER AUTHORIZING $25,000,000 SCHOOL BONDS" was read a second time and placed upon its final passage. The vote upon the final passage of said order was: Ayes: Commissioners Payne, Moss, Hamby, and Melvin and Chairman Lentz Noes: None The Chairman then announced that the order entitled: "ORDER AUTHORIZING $25,000,000 SCHOOL BONDS" had been adopted. The Clerk to the Board of Commissioners was thereupon directed to publish said order, together with the appended statement as required by The Local Government Bond Act, as amended, once in The Concord Tribune and The Daily Independent. Thereupon Commissioner Hamby introduced the following resolution which was read: RESOLUTION CALLING A SPECIAL BOND REFERENDUM BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners for the County of Cabarrus: Section 1. A special bond referendum is hereby called to be held between 6:30 A.M. and 7:30 P.M., on Tuesday, March 8, 1988, at which there shall be submitted to the qualified voters of Cabarrus County the question stated in the notice of special bond referendum set forth in Section 3 of this resolution. Section 2. For said referendum, (i) the regular registration books for elections in Cabarrus County shall be used and the registration books, process or records shall be open for the registration of qualified persons and for public inspection in the manner, under the conditions and at the times and places as provided in said notice set forth in Section 3 of this resolution, (ii) the registrars, judges and other officers of elections appointed by the Cabarrus County Board of Elections for the several precincts and voting places in said County shall be the election officers for such precincts and voting places and (iii) the precincts and voting places shall be those fixed by the Cabarrus County Board of Elections as provided in said notice set forth in Section 3 of this resolution, subject to change as provided by law. The Cabarrus County Board of Elections is hereby requested to conduct said referendum and to take all necessary steps to that end in accordance with the provisions of this section.