HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_0264 (2)IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
BRIEFING MINUTES
NOVEMBER 6 2000
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Briefing Session on Monday,
November 6, 2000, 5:00 p.m., in the Iredell County Government Center (South Wing Conference
Room), 200 South Center Street, Statesville, NC 28677.
Present: Chairman Sara Haire Tice
Vice Chairman Steve D. Johnson
Tommy E. Bowles
Alice M. Stewart
Absent: Alice T. Fortner (due to illness)
Staff Present County Manager Joel Mashburn;. ma cc Director Susan Blumenstein,
Purchasing Agent Evie Caldwell, Chief Deputy Rodney Pro r, Planning Director Ron Smith,
Support Services Director Jim Vernon, DSS Director Don Wall, and Clerk to the Board .lean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Tice.
REQUEST FROM THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT FOR APPROVAL OF THE
FOLLOWING ITEMS:
L A request to purchase a seized 1999 Lincoln Navigator by using $7,500 in federal
equity sharing funds to pay off a lien. (The 1999 Navigator would replace a vehicle already
in the law enforcement fleet.) Chief Deputy Rodney Proctor said the sheriffs office desired to
replace a 1990 Nissan Maxima with a 1999 Lincoln Navigator. Proctor said the approximate value
of the Navigator, seized in a federal narcotics investigation, was $35,000. He said there was,
however, a lien in the amount of$7,500. Proctor said the narcotics division would use the Navigator
in routine law enforcement duties.
Due to the Navigator's value, Commissioner Johnson asked about the possibility of selling
the vehicle.
Proctor said there were three options for the vehicle. He said if Iredell County retained the
%chicle, the laws stipulated that the county would have to possess it for two or three years before
it could be sold. He said ifthe county chose not to keep the vehicle, a federal agency could take use
of it. Proctor said the last option was for the vehicle to be returned to the creditor for the lien.
Commissioner Stewart asked if the vehicle had been seized in Iredell County.
Proctor said he was not sure where the vehicle was seized. He said that when lredcll County
joined in the Multi -County Drug Task Force, there were stipulations saying that Iredell would
receive part of any seized items.
2. A request to purchase two Krimesite Direct View Fingerprint Scopes for $22,972.
Proctor said the sheriffs department had been given permission on October 3, 2000, to purchase one
Krimesite kit in the amount of $11,485. Mr. Proctor said the sheriffdesired to have two more kits
to be used by the employees serving as "on-call" crime scene technicians. He said if more kits could
be obtained, the employees would not have to share the kit approved for purchase in October, and
the technicians would not have to travel back to the sheriffs office when the equipment was needed
--they could keep a kit in their vehicle. (Similar to the lien payof'on the Navigator, the Krimesite
kits would be purchased with seized funds.)
REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF VEHICLE BIDS Q 8 cars, 4 mid-size cargo vans, I
pick up, & 2 refurbished Army trucks): Purchasing Agent Evie Caldwell explained that on
October 30, 2000, vehicle bids were opened for several departments. She said that in reference to