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IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MINUTES
AUGUST 4, 1992 - REGULAR MEETING
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular Session on Tuesday evening, August 4,
1992, 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
Sara K. Haire, Vice Chairman
Doug Madison
Frank Mitchell
Alice Stewart
Staff present: Joel Mashburn, County Manager
William P. Pope, County Attorney
Alice Fortner, Clerk to the Board
Susan Goodman, Finance Director
{ Jerry Lundy, Director of Services and Development
CALL TO ORDER: Chairman Sloan
INVOCATION: Commissioner Madison
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Led by Matthew Moorefield and Wesley Shew,
Boy Scouts who were present in pursuit of
Citizenship and Community Badges
ADJUSTMENT OF AGENDA
TROY WATSON, CHARLOTTE AREA BUSINESS LEAGUE: Mr. Mashburn said Mr. Watson was present and
wished to speak to the county commissioners about his Small Cities program.
MOTION from Chairman Sloan to adjust the agenda to hear Mr. Watson following the presentation
from the VISIONS committee.
VOTING: Ayes - 5; Nays - 0.
APPOINTMENTS BEFORE THE BOARD
VISIONS REVIEW AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE: This committee was appointed in January 1992 to review
the VISIONS original recommendations and see what progress had been made on them. Mr. Chandler
Bryan, who chaired the original VISIONS study, also chaired this oversight committee. He was
present at this meeting and discussed the committee's findings.
A booklet was prepared outlining the findings of the committee. Mr. Bryan said most of the
committee worked diligently on this project. He said he did not think it would be useful to go over
this project page by page. He made an observation that those things that did not cost any money
seemed to have gotten done.
Mr. Bryan addressed the water and sewer policy currently being used by the county. He thought
this was still the best approach for the county to take --to just be involved in running water and
sewer line extensions. This way they are not involved in treatment plants, etc., that cities are
currently managing. Mr. Bryan feels many industries were attracted to the area because of this
policy.
Mr. Bryan said the boards of commissioners would continue to be faced with school problems.
The people the VISIONS study touched was well over one thousand. One of the most important
side effects was the understanding that more and more people have of how county government works.
The fact that the county commissioners had the VISIONS study gave a lot of people a better
understanding of how county government works. The report from the VISIONS gave the board more
credability. It wasn't just the board's idea; but rather it came from a lot of people in the
county.
Mr. Bryan felt this review serves a useful purpose; however, he did not think another review
would be worthwhile. Down the road he sees the possibility of another VISIONS committee to have
another study.
This VISIONS committee has done its duty. Anything after this should be a brand new study, Mr.
Bryan said.
' Various members of the committee spoke. Dusty Rhodes, chairman of the Quality of Life
committee, spoke. He urged people to read the study. Mr. Eddy Sipe represented Education. Mr.
Paul Meech, represented Industrial Development. Mr. Johnson, who represented Quality of Life, was
unable to be present because of a conflict.
Chairman Sloan thanked the group for the presentation. He thanked Mr. Bryan for his leadership
of the group, both in the review and the initial program. The board, by consensus, said they would
like for the "key implementers" to get copies of the plans. Also,« Chairman Sloan said he would