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602 AG. EXT. SERVICE: Several cuts had been made previously by the county manager and finance
director. Pertaining to 0010, Ken Vaughn will buy his own car phone. The $50 in the 0010 is for
trunk calls.
604 VETERANS SERVICE: Discussion was held about the potential consolidation of this department
with another county department. Staff will check with other counties to find out about how many
employees are used to administer this program as well as find out about house calls.
630 LIBRARY: In addition to cuts made previously by the county manager and finance officer,
the commissioners made another deletion.
MOTION by Commissioner Mitchell to delete the cellular phone and service out of this budget.
VOTING: Ayes - 3 (Stewart, Haire, Mitchell)
Nay - 1 (Sloan)
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS: Mrs. Haire made a motion to fund the Mooresville Library at their
requested $40,000. After discussing the upcoming public hearing (June 4), this motion was
rescinded.
GARAGE: One new employee request had previously been deleted by the county manager and finance
officer.
LAN ENFORCEMENT, SPECIAL APPROPRIATONS, DSS, & HEALTH will be departments discussed at the
next meeting.
The meeting adjourned at 8:45 p.m. Next meeting date: Tuesday, May 28, 1991, 4:00 p.m., South
Wing Conference Room, for budget session.
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APPROVED: 7/2/91
IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MINUTES
MAY 30, 1991
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Adjourned Regular Session for continued study
on the 91-92 Iredell County Budget.
In attendance were: R. B. Sloan Jr., Chairman
Alice Stewart, Vice Chairman
Sara Haire
Doug Madison
Frank Mitchell
Staff present: Joel Mashburn, County Manaaer
Susan Goodman, Finance Director
Jean Moore, Acting Clerk to the Board
CALL TO ORDER: By Chairman Sloan
The county manager first talked about a request to hold Civil Superior Court in the ICCB on ,lune 4 b
5, 1991. The library director attended the budget meeting and offered the library for this purpose.
This was agreed upon, and the county manager called the trial administrator to let her know of the
decision.
630 LIBRARY: Flint Norwood and Janet Hall explained that more than 40,000 books are circulated
a year by the bookmobile. The bookmobile is circulating in the county three days a week, 97 regular
locations, and 185 stops. The finance officer indicated that $63,000 a year is the direct
maintenance cost of the bookmobile. About 700-800 miles are put on the bookmobile per month.
90.
State library statistics show that 350,000 books were in circulation for the library in 1989-
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS/MOORESVILLE LIBRARY: Karen Kahn, Director of the Mooresville Library,
estimated that the library has about 11,000 patrons. Kahn gave a brief history of this library
saying that $750 was I.
ven to the library from Iredell County up until 1986. Last year they
received an increase of $5,000, raising Iredell County's appropriation to $30,000. Total operating
budget is $156,000. Their library trust fund has $70,000 to $80,000 set aside for capital needs.
Currently the library has four full-time employees and several part-time employees who work 10 to 12
hours a week. The library is open 50 hours a week. A blanket contribution is given to the Town of
Mooresville who handles the library expenses. This library has an eight -member Library Advisory
Board. The ratio of patrons living inside/outside the city limits is estimated to be about 40/50
respectively,