HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_0167 (2)IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
BRIEFING MINUTES
UNE 20 2000
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Briefing Session on Tuesday, .lune 20,
2000, 5:00 p.m., in the Iredell County Government Center (Commissioners' Meeting Room), 200 South
Center Street, Statesville, NC 28677.
Present: Chairman Sara Haire Tice
Vice Chairman Steve D. Johnson
Tommy E. Bowles
Alice T. Fortner
Alice M. Stewart
Staff Present: County Manager Joel Mashburn, Finance Director Susan Blumenstein, Health
Director Ray Rabe, Support Services Director Jim Vernon, County Assessor Brent Weisner, Solid Waste
Director Ron Weatherman, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Tice.
DISCUSSION ABOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMITTEE TO REVIEW
MINIMUM LOT SIZES, MOBILE HOME STANDARDS, & THE COMPOSITION OF A
MISSION STATEMENT:
Balanced Growth Committee: Commissioner Fortner shared a mission statement that she and
the county manager had drafted. The statement read as follows.
Mission Statement
Balanced Growth Committee
fredell County
The mission for the committee is to develop a managed growth plan which will insure that
economic and environmental interest will he balanced and that efforts to provide industrial,
commercial and residential development do not jeopardize the quality -of -life amenities that make
Iredell County such u great place to live.
County Manager Mashburn asked the amount of money the board members wanted to put into
the overall county growth plan.
Fortner said the amount would have to be determined later.
Commissioner Stewart said that whatever the amount, it would be a wasted expenditure if the
board did not support what the committee recommended. She said that most anything approved would
have to be "tweaked" occasionally.
Fortner said that with the VISIONS project, some suggestions were implemented but others
were not. She said that boards changed, and some recommendations became obsolete.
Mashburn recommended that a facilitator be obtained to aid the committee.
Commissioner Johnson said he felt the committee members should not be expected to do
research. He also said the members shouldn't have personal or political biases about the issues.
Mashburn said the mission statement did not address why a committee was needed.
The commissioners then came up with the following list of concerns.