HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93008_1986 (2)IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONER
MINUTES
OCTOBER 22, 1991
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Special Session on Tuesday evening, October
22, 1991, 7:00 p.m., Iredell County Commissioners' meetino Room, County Government Center, 200 South
Center Street, Statesville, NC. Those present for the meetino were:
R. B. Sloan Jr., Chairman
Sara K. Haire
Douo Madison
Frank Mitchell
Staff present: Joel Mashburn, County Manaaer
William P. Pope, County Attorney
Alice Fortner, Clerk to the Board
Susan Goodman, Finance Officer
Sheriff Clyde Lloyd
CALL TO ORDER: Chairman Sloan
INVOCATION: Chairman Sloan
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMING MEETINGS: The RICCE organization extends an invitation to the county
officials, elected and staff, to attend an appreciation feast this Saturday afternoon (October 26,
1901) starting at 3:00 p.m. The event will be at the William Long Farm.
E The county commissioners will be hosting a dinner for the N. C. legislators on Tuesday, October
29, 1991, 6:00 p.m., at the Tally House Restaurant, Troutman, NC.
The Economic Development Commission of Rock Hill will meet on October 30, 1991 in Rock Hill. A
group will be meetinq at 8:00 a.m. at the County Manager's Office to attend this meetino and learn
of Rock Hill's economic development successes. They anticipate returnina at 4:00 p.m. the same day.
PALLISER FURNITURE: Announcement was made of some of the commissioners' attendance at the
Palliser Furniture's grand opening event. Palliser is the largest manufacturer of furniture in
Canada and the 15th laroest in North America. Commissioner Mitchell attended the event.
HUNT MANUFACTURING PRESENTATION: Commissioner Madison attended the presentation for Hunt
Manufacturino Company, Inc., who received an award recently for contributions to the community. The
award was given by the freater Statesville Chamber of Commerce.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT BIDS ON KEWAUNEE BUILDING RENOVATIONS: Mr. Mashburn reported on the bids for
the health department building. The apparent low bidder for the general contract is $1,x46,500.
The high bidder was $1,594,000. There were 11 bids received for the general contract work and were
pretty close, Mashburn said. The multi -prime low bid totaled $2,094,647. Under the new laws, the
county is required to bid the project in two ways, (1) single prime and (2)multi-prime. The single
prime bid totaled $2,140,000. The staff will have recommendations by the November 5th meetina.
EXECUTIVE SESSION: MOTION from Commissioner Madison to adjourn to executive session to discuss
personnel and legal matters.
p.4, VOTING Ayes - 4: Nays - 0.
410 MOTION from Commissioner Mitchell to return to regular session.
VOTING: Ayes - 4; Nays - 0.
Chairman Sloan made the following remarks:
I have a statement to make. I am attempting to anticipate some of your questions. First, as
you are aware, this is a called meetino of the Iredell County Board of Commissioners tonight. Mrs.
Stewart, who is not here, had attempted to schedule her time with her parents in Virginia and attend
a weddina this weekend and this came up, so she is not with us tonight. I hope that explains her
absence.
Next, an item that seemed to receive quite a bit of coverage is a letter I received from Cecil
Cook in which he requested that we allow him to attend tonight's meeting. If his physical condition
would not allow him to attend this meetino, he further requested that we schedule this meetino at a
later time. I spoke with Mr. Cook yesterday in an effort to ascertain the basis for his request.
My understanding of our discussion is he felt he should be here to defend his character. After
determining that was the basis for his request, I informed him that we would be unable to honor his
request. This decision was based on the following: First we would not be addressing the
performance of any individual. We would not be attemptino to determine quilt or innocence of any
individual. I further felt that it was imperative for us, the county commissioners, to oet together
to determine what action this board should pursue, and thus did not feel it was in the county's best
interest to delay the meeting. So you can take any one of those three as the reason he was not in
attendance.
The Constitution provides that each county has a sheriff who is elected by the people. The
General Statutes (153A-103) provides that the sheriff has the exclusive authority to hire, fire, and
supervise his employees. The primary purpose of this meetina tonight with the sheriff was to
discuss with him the legal consequences, if any, of anv activity or inactivity in the sheriff's
department. The sheriff represented to us that he was satisfied that he had insufficient evidence