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OCT 61976 r MRS. IONS HENRY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES COUNCIL, WAS PRESENT AND STATED THAT MRS, FLANAGAN IS WILLING TO SERVE, AND THEY APPROVE OF HER AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THE BOARD WILL APPOINT HER. DISCUSSION FOLLOWED, AND IT WAS NOTED THAT AT ONE TIME THE BOARD WAS ASKED TO MAKE SIX APPOINTMENTS TO THE E.O.C. AND IT SEEMS SOME CONFUSION HAS ARISEN IN REGARD TO THE GUIDELINES. COMMISSIONER MASSEY WAS ONE OF THE APPOINTMENTS MADE. CHAIRMAN SIEBERT ASKED THAT THIS APPOINTMENT BE HELD OVER UNTIL MRS. FORLANI, SECRETARY TO THE BOARD, COULD RESEARCH THE MATTER AND DETERMINE IF WE ARE SUPPOSED TO APPOINT ANOTHER MEMEBER, HE NOTED THAT HE PERSONALLY FELT IT IS BETTER TO HAVE SOMEONE OTHER THAN A COMMISSIONER APPOINTED TO THIS BOARD BECAUSE OF THE MANY CONFLICTING MEETINGS THEY MUST ATTEND. MRS. HENRY NOTED THAT DURING THIS PAST YEAR, THE E.O.C. HAS BEEN ABLE TO GET MORE FUNDS THAN USUAL AND THUS SHE FEELS IT IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT TO HAVE GOOD PEOPLE APPOINTED TO THE BOARD. THE BOARD DISCUSSED WHETHER A MEMBER OF THE BOARD SHOULD BE ON THE E.O.C. BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND IT WAS AGREED IT WOULD BE BETTER TO FIND OTHER WORKING MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO SERVE. MRS. HENRY INFORMED THE BOARD THAT WILLIE ADAMS HAS BEEN REPRESENTING A TARGET AREA IN GIFFORD AND HIS TERM IS LIMITED TO FIVE YEARS WHICH HAS NOW EXPIRED. SHE STATED THAT HE HAS BOTH KNOWLEDGE i AND EXPERIENCE AND POINTED OUT THAT IF HE WERE APPOINTED BY THE BOARD AS THEIR REPRESENTATIVE THERE WOULD BE NO LIMIT TO THE TIME HE COULD SERVE, ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER Loy, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER MASSEY, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED RESOLUTION N0. 76-70 APPOINTING WILLIE ADAMS TO SERVE ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES COUNCIL AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 23