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BRIEFING MINUTES
JANUARY 16 2001
The I01, at 5:00 pCounty Board
January 16, 2001, at of Commissioners met in Briefing Session on Tuesday,
.m., in the IredelI 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
Karen B. Ray
R. Godfrey Williams
Staff Present: County Manager Joel Mashburn, Planning Supervisor Ron Smith, Finance
Director Susan Blumenstein, Chief Deputy Rodney Proctor, Sgt. Neil Hayes and Lt. TerryBeck with
the Sheriff's Dept., DSS Director Don Wall, DSS Attorney Rob
Weisner, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore. Young, County Assessor Brent
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Tice.
PLANNING/ZONING ITEMS: Planning Supervisor Ron Smith explained the surety bond
items that were on the agenda. He was then asked about the revisions to the sign ordinance. Smith
said the planning board had discussed the revisions on January 3, but there were several concerns
and a decision was postponed until February 7,
REQUEST FOR THE DESIGNATION
F ALI
FINANCE OFFICER IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT'S
INMATE AGENCY ACCOUNT: Lt. Beck, the supervisor for the jail department, said the
inmates were not allowed to have money during their incarcerations. Beck said if money was owed
to the inmates at the time of their discharge, a check was written. Lt. Beck said he requesting that
Corporal Gwen Parks be deleted as a deputy finance officer and for Alicia Miles to be given the
designation. Beck said Ms. Miles would just add the responsibility of writing checks to her other
duties.
Blumenstein said that in accordance with the Local Government Budget and FiscalControl
Act, it was necessary to have the designation before checks could be written.
REQUEST TO ENTER INTO A 33 -MONTH CO -TERMINUS LEASE FOR
COMPUTER SOFTWARE/HARDWARE UPGRADE IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,252,50 PER
QUARTER: Chief Deputy Proctor said the department's hardware and so ware (Visions) was
currently overloaded. He said the employees had to wait to input data, and they had to wait to
receive output. Proctor said the department was soon due for a software update. He asked that
upgraded hardware be approved to relieve the overloaded equipment. Proctor said the upgrade could
be added to the present lease for 35 months. He said the "add on" could
original lease and everything would terminate at the same time, run concurrently with the
REQUEST FROM SOCIAL SERVICES FOR PERMISSION TO APPLY FOR A
GRANT THAT WOULD ENABLE A PARALEGAL TO WORK IN THE CHILD
SUPPORT DIVISION: DSS Attorney Rob Young said he would like to apply for a Z. Smith
Reynolds grant. tie said that if the funds were approved, the money would be used for a parttime
paralegal position. Young said that due to staffshortages, collection proceedings on high end child
support arrearage cases had been given a low priority. Young said the paralegal's work would be
supervised by him and would provide: (1) better customer service to the agency's clients (2)
increased child support collections and (3) provide a basis for permanence and stability for
dependent children.