HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_1126 (2)IREDELI, COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
BUDGET WORK SESSION MINUTES
MAY 22 2003
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met for a Fiscal Year 2003-04
budget session on Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 6:00 p.m., in the Iredell County
Government Center (South Wing Conference Room), 200 South Center Street,
Statesville, NC.
Present were:
Chairman Steve D. Johnson
Vice Chairman Godfrey Williams
Doug Madison
Marvin Norman
Sara Haire Tice
Staffpresent: County Manager Joel Mashburn, Finance Director Susan
Blumenstein, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Johnson.
REVENUES: Using a 44.5 tax rate, Finance Director Susan Blumenstein
distributed and discussed a five-year projected revenue spreadsheet. She also shared a
ten-year projection. Blumenstein said $107,770.00 had been used from the fund
balance to balance the proposed budget. She said the general fund budget of
$110,737,630 was based on a 95.81% tax collection rate, and the tax administrator had
hired contracted help in an effort to increase the collections.
County Manager Mashburn mentioned that more bankruptcies had occurred this
fiscal year, and this had affected the collections.
Blumenstein said that in the past, the one -cent sales tax reimbursement had been
distributed to the counties in a point-of-sale method, but the General Assembly had
changed this to a point -of -delivery system. She said the change was done in an effort to
obtain revenue from remote (Internet) sales.
IREDELL-STATESVILLE (1-S) SCHOOL SYSTEM: Superintendent Dr.
Terry Holliday and Finance Officer Terry Haas attended the meeting to discuss the 1-S
requests. Holliday said in current expense, the system was requesting a five percent
increase plus student growth. In mandated increases, Holliday reviewed the following.
Hos italization Increase
Retirement Increase to 5%
$ 156,501
of Lt-,_
Local Supplement (6.6% Certified Staff and 6.10%
Non -certified staf
$ 584,975
Modulars for Harmon
Charter SchoolsiFines and ForfeituresIncrease
in instructional supplies $20 per adail membershi (ADMIncreased
nSO
costs of business (insuunemployment, charter school enroltrans ortationTOTAL
Holliday said the system had a three-year plan to raise the teacher supplement
from 6.6% to 8%.
Dr. Holliday and Haas then presented eight priorities submitted by the system's
budget committee. These were: