HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_0335 (2)IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
WINTER PLANNING SESSION MINUTES
JANUARY 26 & 27, 2001
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met for a Winter Planning Session on
Friday, January 26, 2001, and Saturday, January27, 2001, at Queens Landing, 1459 River Highway,
Mooresville, NC.
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, Finance Director Susan Blumenstein,
Support Services Director Jim Vernon, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Tice
ADJUSTMENTS OF THE AGENDA: MOT'lON by Chairman Tice to adjust the
planning session agenda by the following revisions.
Additions:- Closed Session regarding Property Acquisition - G.S. 143-318.11 (a) (5)
• Request from Visions Work Youth Services For Permission to Apply for a Governor's
Crime Commission Grant for the Establishment of a Juvenile Day Reporting (:enter
• Request for Approval of an Iredell County Audit Contract with McLelland
Rutherford & McKenzie PA for Year Ending June 30, 2001
VOTING: Ayes - 5; Nays - 0.
BUDGET UPDATE AND REVIEW: Finance Director Blumenstein reviewed revenue and
expenditure updates. She mentioned the state sales tax appropriations were distributed on a quarterly
basis, and the November 2000 allotment was lower than the one for November 1999. She said
another distribution would occur in February, and it would include the holiday sales. When asked
ife-trading was influencing the distribution, Blumenstein said it was difficult to pinpoint. She did
say, however, the county basically did not receive anything from e -trading.
In reference to a projected fund balance at the end of June 30, 2001, Blumenstein said it
would be about twelve percent.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES: The county manager said it might be
time for the county to start directing incentives towards high tech scientific jobs rather than
manufacturing positions.
Mrs. Blumenstein noted that an economic incentive payment schedule was included in the
planning session notebook. She said the schedule included all incentive projects approved since
1995 and the projected years that payments would be due. She pointed out that for the next six or
seven years, the approved projects would affect the county's budget.
LIBRARY PRELIMINARY REPORT: Library Director Steve Messick was accompanied
to the meeting by Earl Gaulden of Craig, Gaulden & Davis, Inc. Messick said the Craig Caulden
firm had been hired to (1) study the existing library building to determine how an addition could
be built and (2) study the possibility ofbuilding a new facility on contiguous property. Mr. Messick
said he updated a space needs assessment that was done a few years ago by Providence Associates.
While updating the assessment, Messick derived an estimated need of 46,302 sq. feet of space to
meet Iredell County's population and the library's collection of items. He said the existing library
had 17,792 sq. ft. of space.