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IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MINUTES
JULY 1, 1991
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular Adjourned Session on Monday, July 1,
1991, 9:00 a.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 M. Stewart, Vice Chairman
Sara K. Haire
Doug Madison
Frank Mitchell
Staff present: Joel Mashburn, County Manager
Alice Fortner, Clerk to the Board
Susan Goodman, Finance Officer
Jerry Lundy, Planning Director
Carson Fisher, Staff Engineer
CALL TO ORDER: By Chairman Sloan
CONSIDERATION OF FY 1991-92 BUDGET ORDINANCE: Mr. Joel Mashburn announced that he had been
talking to Mr. Ron Aycock from the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners this morning,
and Mr. Aycock said the State has passed a resolution to continue operating under the same budget
until July 6th. Mr. Aycock feels that the State will make a decision by the 6th, and probably that
decision will be some form of the 112 cent sales tax for the county which will replace the
Reimbursement Tax the counties now receive in lieu of the intangible tax and the inventory tax
formerly repealed by the state government.
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the present level of revenues.
Chairman Sloan inquired how quickly this sales tax can be implemented if the state does actual-
ly pass it. Mr. Mashburn said they are working out legislation that will allow a quicker implemen-
tation of the tax through a shorter time period on the notice of public hearing (reducing the time
from 10 days to five days). Mr. Mashburn also reiterated that that will not be a tax that will give
any additional revenues; it is a replacement tax for revenues that will no longer be available to
counties.
Mr. Mashburn recommended that the county commissioners go ahead and adopt an interim budget
which will allow the county to operate its day-to-day activities. There cannot be any capital
purchases made, but the county can continue at the present level for salaries and other necessary
expenses that would occur during this interim period until the state has made its decision on its
budget for FY 1991-92.
DARE PROGRAM: The board discussed a request from the City of Statesville regarding the DARE
program funds to come from the Local ABC funds formerly allocated to the Statesville City Schools.
This is approximately $80,000. Mr. Mashburn said the budget has the county's share of the funds
already in it for the DARE program. NO ACTION TAKEN.
STATESVILLE AIRPORT FUNDS: There was $45,000 from the 1990-91 budget that went into fund
balance at the conclusion of the 90-91 fiscal year. These funds will remain a part of fund bl
unless the board reappropriates them in to the airport cine item of the Special Appropriations aance
budget. NO BOARD ACTION.
SCHOOL BUDGET AMENDMENT: An amendment to the 90-91 school budget that was inadvertently
overlooked previously was presented to the board for approval. The amendment permitted the moving
of funds from Iredell County Schools Fund Balance to the line items for construction of North
Middle, furniture and equipment for North Middle, Architect fees for North Middle, and a multi-
purpose building at Monticello. The total amount of the amendment is $571,630. After discussion
board members decided to wait until the newly combined board is in place before considering this
amendment further. _
MOTION from Commissioner Madison to table the amendment until the July 16th meeting.
VOTING: AYES - 5; Nays - 0.
tion:
INTERIM BUDGET: MOTION from Commissioner Madison to adopt the following Interim Budget Resolu-
INTERIM BUDGET RESOLTUION
1991-92
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of Iredell County that thereis hereby adopted an
interim budget for the purpose of providing salaries, debt service payments, and the usual ordinary
expense of Iredell County, effective July 1, 1991, until the adoption of the 1991-92 budget.
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