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46 <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, 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 THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER (Cabarrus Neighbors) on March 4, 2001. <br /> <br />Present - <br /> <br />Chairman: Arne L. Fennel <br />Vice Chairman: Robert W. Carruth <br />Commissioners: Robert M. Freeman <br /> Coy C. Privette <br /> Richard D. Suggs <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 Fennel called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. <br /> <br />Commissioner Freeman led the Pledge of Allegiance. <br /> <br /> Chairman Fennel presented the following Proclamation asking all <br />Cabarrus County citizens to fast and pray for rain during the month of April. <br /> <br /> Proclamation <br /> of <br />Cabarrus County, North Carolina <br /> <br /> Whereas, Cabarrus County has experienced 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, Cabarrus County and its cities are twenty-four (24) inches of <br />rain below normal since mid-1998, and <br /> Whereas, Lake Howell is ninety-nine (99) inches below normal, Lake <br />Fisher is sixty-five (65) inches below normal, Lake Concord is seventy-three <br />(73) inches below normal and Kannapolis Lake is sixty-four (64) inches below <br />normal, and <br /> Whereas, God answers us in Job 38 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 know! Or who stretched the line <br />upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its <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, but no <br />farther, and here your proud waves must stop!' 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 darkness, where is its place .... Who has divided a <br />channel for the overflowing water, or a path for the 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 God <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 /> Signed this 26tn day of March 2001 by /s/ Arne L. Fennel <br /> Arne L. Fennel, Chairman, <br /> Cabarrus County Commissioners <br /> <br /> Reverend Rodney Quesenberry of Broadus Memorial Baptist Church gave the <br />invocation. <br /> <br /> <br />