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IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MINUTES
JULY 24, 1990
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Special Adjourned Session, Tuesday, July 24,
1990, 7:30 p.m., County Commissioners Meeting Room, Iredell County Government Center, 200 South
Center Street, Statesville, NC. Those present for the meeting were:
R. B. Sloan, Jr., Chairman
Alice Stewart, Vice Chairman
C. Chandler Bryan
Larry S. Hedrick
Frances L. Murdock
Staff present: Joel Mashburn, County Manager
William P. Pope, County Attorney
Alice Fortner, Clerk to the Board
Susan Goodman, Finance Director
Jerry Lundy, Planning Director
Richard Franklin, Staff Engineer
CALL TO ORDER: By Chairman Sloan
INVOCATION: The Reverend Dennis Quackenboss, Pastor
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
465 Hartness Road
Statesville, NC 28677
SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED ABOUT THE HAZARDOUS WASTE COMMISSION'S ACTIVITIES: Chairman Sloan said he
believed the board should express its anger, disappointment, outrage, and even embarrassment at what
the Hazardous Waste Commission has attempted to do with the administrative rules relative to the
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MOTION from Commissioner Murdock to authorize the wiring of such notification as expressed by
Chairman Sloan.
VOTING: Ayes - 5; Nays - 0.
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS
PROTESTING THE SOCIAL SERVICES PAPERWORK LOAD: MOTION from Commissioner Stewart to approve the
following resolution:
WHEREAS, the Alexander v. Hill court order has been in force for some 15+ years under the guise
of providing applicants of Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Medicaid timely determina-
tions of benefits; and
WHEREAS, the most recent Consent Order and Settlement Agreement agreed to by Legal Services and
the State of North Carolina, without benefit of substantial county input, creates severe fiscal
penalties to be paid from 100% county funds if a county fails to reach a certain threshold of points
on a monitoring mechanism; and
WHEREAS, the most recent Consent Order and Settlement Agreement creates mounds of unnecessary
paperwork for the counties and, in effect, drastically slows down the eligibility process for
clients;
NOW, THEREFORE 'BE IT RESOLVED by the Iredell County Board of Commissioners that the North
Carolina Association of County Commissioners use its good offices to do the following:
Request the State of North Carolina, Department of Human
Resources renegotiate this most resent Consent Order and
Settlement Agreement with Legal Services beginning in 1990
using the suggestions in the "white paper" titled PEOPLE VS.
PAPER and substantially involving counties in the process
to the ultimate benefit of the client and counties;
Embrace PEOPLE V. PAPER as the Association's blueprint
for simplification of the Income Maintenance Programs and
request the State of North Carolina, Department of Human
Resources, to act quickly to make the needed chances that
can be made at the state level;
Use PEOPLE V. PAPER as the springboard to request that
the State of North Carolina, Department of Human Resources,
institute fiscal and program research on the Presumptive
Eligibility process for these programs, as is used by 12
other States and 2 Territories, which may obviate the
need for Alexander v. Hill; and