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IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
COMMUNITY MEETING MINUTES
JANUARY 29, 1991
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met at Mooresville Town Hall in Mooresville on
Tuesday, January 29, 1991, after the originally scheduled meeting on January 24th had been cancelled
because of anticipated bad weather. Those present for the meeting were:
Sara Haire, Temporary Chairman
Doug Madison
Frank Mitchell
Staff present: Joel Mashburn, County Manager
Alice Fortner, Clerk to the Board
Chairman Haire called the meeting to order in the absence of Chairman Sloan and Vice Chairman
Stewart, who both had unavoidable, conflicts on this evening.
Chairman Haire welcomed the Mooresville group and opened the floor for comments from the
audience.
Those speaking were:
Dick Nantz, Mayor pro -tem of Mooresville, welcomed the group to Mooresville.
Floy Kelly, representing Mocresville Senior Citizens Advisory Board, reaffirmed her board's
request for a senior center in Mooresville. She said they would like to include space for a
performing arts center and swimming pool, as well as the senior citizens center. The group has made
a request of the Lowrance Hopsital Funds Board for money to build this center. Ms. Kelly said they
had 17,000 people in the Mooresville area who are 60 years old and older.
Commissioner Madison said the county commissioners were having a liability assessment to deter-
mine the county's liability because of the sale of Lowrance Hopsital. After this assessment has
been completed, the board will be ready to make a decision on these funds.
Dr. Jane Carrigan, president of Mooresville/South Iredell Chamber of Commerce, presented a
resolution to honor the board of commissioners, which read as follows:
WHEREAS, The Iredell County Commissioners are dedicated to preserving a high auality of life
for the residents of Iredell County and are equally entrusted with the resonsibility to gain human
and financial resources to support a high standard of living, and
WHEREAS, The Mooresville-S�oth Iredell area now represents one-half of the population of Ire -
dell County and continues to prow at, an unprecedented rate, and
WHREAS, The current Iredell County Commissioners have reached out to the people of Mooresville
and South Iredell by holding meetings in Mooresville and have pledged to become an integral part of
the local communities,
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED: That the Mooresville -South Iredell Chamber of Commerce applauds the
commissioners for their interest and enthusiasm in promoting county government and oainino input
from the people of Mooresville and South Iredell,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That this resolution be distributed to the Iredell County
Commissioners at the January 29, 1991, meeting at the Mooresville courthouse.
(Adopted by the Mooresville -South Iredell Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors January 16, 1991.)
0. C. Stonestreet, representing a group called the Friends of the Mooresville Public Library,
spoke concerning the Mooresville Library. He said the current facility was built in 1939 to contain
17,000 volumes. They now have in excess of 45,000 volumes. There are 600 students in the summer
reading program. The county puts $30,000 into the budget; the state funds $7,000, and the City of
Mooresville funds $117,000. They need more funds if possible. They have land on which to expand.
Dick Brolin, a local commerical real estate broker, urged the county commissioners to develop a
vision of the 14 -county region that is involved in this extraordinary growth that is envied by other
areas, he said. He asked about long range planning for the area.
Chairman Haire mentioned the VISIONS Strategic Plan, finished not long ago by the county, which
makes long-range projectionss for Iredell County in four different areas. The county manager
enumerated some of the things that have come about since the development of the VISIONS plan, as a
part of its projections, which are:
Countywide zoning and land use
Telephone system eliminating long-distance calls from all over the
county to the county seat, which is now pending
Information and Referral system that is currently be studied and
will eventually be enacted.
Water and Sewer, a part of the plan has been developed since the
VISIONS study and other parts are being considered