HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_1142 (2)IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
BUDGET WORK SESSION MINUTES
JUNE 5, 2003
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met for a Fiscal Year 2003-04
budget session on Thursday, June 5, 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
Marvin Norman
Sara Haire Tice
Absent: Commissioner Madison was unable to attend the meeting.
Staffpresent: Finance Director Susan Blumenstein, Inspections/Planning
Director Lynn Niblock, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
Absent: County Manager Joel Mashburn was unable to attend the meeting.
Call to Order by Chairman Johnson.
Courts Budget: Clerk of Court Rena Turner joined the commissioners for this
segment of the meeting. She requested the purchase of four work -station cubicles.
Blumenstein said the increases in the courts budget were mostly due to the
opening of the Hall of Justice Annex and the Govemment Center South facility. She
said her office would obtain a cost estimate on the work stations for Mrs. Turner's
office and share the information at the June 10 meeting.
Schools: Superintendent Dr. Terry Holliday and Finance Officer Terry Haas
attended the meeting in regards to the Iredell-Statesville School System.
Dr. Holliday said his purpose in being at the meeting was to insure the
commissioners understood that full disclosure had been given about sales tax
reimbursements to the school system.
Blumenstein said sales tax information was included in the school system's
current expense budget request (page 211. She mentioned that overall, the county
would receive about $625,000 less than what had been budgeted in sales taxes.
Blumenstein said the stagnant economy, the change in the method of reimbursements
(point of delivery vs. point of sale), and the change allowing refunds to schools,
municipalities, hospitals and nonprofits were some of the reasons the county's
reimbursements would be lower.
Holliday said that prior to the new law, many school systems ran their capital
projects through the counties for the purpose of receiving the sales taxes.
Request for Approval of Budget Amendment #45A: Mrs. Blumenstein
requested approval of a budget amendment to recognize the receipt of beer and wine
sales taxes. She said the amendment would appropriate $197,290 to the Iredell-
Statesville School System and $44,099 to the Mooresville System. She distributed a
handout that contained the following information to explain the request.
May 1002: The 2002-03 budget submitted to the commissioners included State reimbursements
of $3,113,120 and appropriated $761,904 to a contingency fund to provide up to a 3% increase
in school current expense funding as reimbursements were received.
Later, when the General Assembly eliminated reimbursements from the State budget, the
commissioners instructed the staff to eliminate the $3,113,120 in the budget, ellntinate the