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Joe Ketchie, Tax Collector
Alice Fortner, Clerk to the Board
CALL TO ORDER: By the Chairman
INVOCATION: By Commissioner Mills
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: MOTION from Commissioner Campbell to approve the minutes
from the November 15 and December 6 meetings. VOTING: Ayes - 5; Nays - 0.
CHAIRMAN TROUTMAN ADJOURNED THE MEETING TO A PUBLIC HEARING.
RUBBERMAID SPECIALTIES PRODUCTS, INC., INDUSTRIAL REVENUE BONDS: Robert N.
Randall, County Attorney, discussed the issuance of $9 million in industrial
revenue bonds for the captioned industry.
Questions were raised by Commissioner Campbell regarding the number of jobs
that would be created by this financing. Mr. Randall also discussed the County's
agreement with the City and the UDAG application for water and sewer development to
this plant.
No one else present raised any questions regarding this project.
CHAIRMAN TROUTMAN CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING AND RE -OPENED THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE
BOARD.
RUBBERMAID SPECIALTY PRODUCTS, INC. - INDUSTRIAL BOND FINANCING: MOTION from
Commissioner Murdock, second from Commissioner Ostwalt to approve the documents
for Rubbermaid Specialty Products bond financing. VOTING: Ayes - 5; Nays - 0.
HERONWOOD ATTORNEY - BERT WALSER: Mr. Walser came before the board regarding
his client, Heronwood Associates. His request of the board was that the county
commissioners consider appointing a special attorney to represent them in the
Heronwood rezoning request that is to be on the January 3rd agenda. While Mr.
Walser has no problem with the county attorney, Robert N. Randall, representing the
county commissioners, he anticipates the opponent to the rezoning may question Mr.
Randall's legal counsel since Mr. Randall had represented Heronwood earlier in another
legal matter.
Mr. Randall said he had completed his legal counsel for Heronwood Associates,
but he did recommend to the board that it might be in the county's best interest
to obtain other counsel for this particular matter.
With consent of the board, the chairman requested the county manager and
county planner to acquire the services of an attorney to represent the county board
in the Heronwood zoning on the January 3rd agenda.
TAX SUPERVISOR'S OFFICE - FARM USE REDUCTION: Mrs. Lois Troutman, tax supervi-
sor, came before the board with Jimmy Deaton, tax appraiser, regarding the farm use
program for the 1964 reappraisal.
Mrs. Troutman explained the farm use reduction, saying that under the present
reappraisal all farmers may use the farm use value reduction if they qualify by
' having as much as ten acres in a farm tract and producing a gross amount of $1,000.
Mrs. Troutman introduced a "sound management policy," which sets minimum dollar
limits on larger tracts of farmland. This policy includes a schedule of minimum