HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_0440 (2)IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR MINUTES
JUNE 5, 2001
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular Session on Tuesday,
June 5, 2001, at 7:00 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
Karen B. Ray
R. Godfrey Williams
Staff Present: County Manager Joel Mashburn, County Attorney Bill Pope, Finance
Director Susan Blumenstein, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Tice.
INVOCATION by Commissioner Bowles.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
ADJUSTMENTS TO THE AGENDA: OTIO by Chairman Tice to adjust the agenda
by adding a closed session for the purpose of discussing an economic development project - G.S.
143-318.11 (a) (4), and to delete the item listed on the agenda pertaining to the Appropriation of
Funds from Drug Seizure Money to Capital Outlay -Equipment to Assist in the County's Match for
the Purchase of Radar Units.
VOTING: Ayes - 5; Nays - 0.
PRESENTATION OF SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS: Chairman Tice
announced that for the thirteenth consecutive year, a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in
Financial Reporting had been awarded to Finance Director Susan Blumenstein. Tice thanked
Blumenstein for her excellent management of the county's finances.
APPOINTMENTS BEFORE THE BOARD
RESIDENTS OF THE PRESSLY FARM ROAD AREA SPEAK ABOUT THE
DISCHARGING OF FIREARMS: Mr. Melvin York expressed concerns about teenage boys
shooting guns in his neighborhood on a daily basis. York said the teenagers were using various types of
guns and one was a military style weapon that had been ordered through the Internet. lie said the
sheriffs office had repeatedly been called, but there was not anything the officers could do. York said
the sheriff's department had indicated that an area where a pile of dirt had been dumped was a safe place
to shoot. He said he was not proposing that weapons be removed from everyone; especially since he was
a gun owner. Mr. York said he was more concerned about having a safe neighborhood. He said the
rights of his family were being violated since they did not feel safe outside of their house.
Mr. York asked:
1. Who has the authority to deem an area as being a safe place to discharge firearms'?
2. Could someone define a firing range? (He said the firearms were being discharged
every night for three or four hours.)
Commissioner Williams asked the distance between Mr. York's house and the site
where the teenagers were shooting.
York said around 200 feet.
Shannon Upright, another resident of the neighborhood, said he owned guns and that in the past,
he had sometimes target practiced. He said, however, he didn't practice now because