HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_1192 (2)IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR MINUTES
AUGUST 5, 2003
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular Session on Tuesday,
August 5, 2003, at 7:00 p.m., in the Iredell County Government Center (Commissioners'
Meeting Room), 200 South Center Street, Statesville, NC.
Present were:
Chairman Steve D. Johnson
Vice Chairman Godfrey Williams
Doug Madison
Marvin Norman
Sara Haire Tice
Staff present: County Manager Joel Mashburn, Finance Director Susan Blumenstein,
Planning Supervisor Ron Smith, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Johnson.
INVOCATION by Chairman Johnson.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
ADJUSTMENTS OF THE AGENDA: OTIOId by Chairman Johnson to adjust the
agenda by the following actions:
Deletions: Request from the City of Statesville for the Review of an Urban Service Area (see
briefing minutes)
• Announcement of the Iredell County Tax Collector's Retirement Effective
June 1, 2004 and Acceptance of his Letter of Resignation (see briefing
minutes)
• Closed Session for an Economic Development Matter
Additions: • Amended Capital Project Ordinance for the CDBG Water/Sewer Project Fund
(Millard Refrigerated/West Farm Water Tower Project)
• Budget Amendment #4 for $125,826 to recognize a Homeland Security Grant and
to appropriate the funds for equipment, exercises and training
• Budget Amendment #5 to recognize a grant from the State of North Carolina for
the Citizen Corp Council
VOTING: Ayes - 5; Nays - 0.
APPOINTMENT BEFORE THE BOARD
Presentation from Mr. Stan Thompson, Chairman of the Transportation Committee
for the Mooresville/South Iredell Chamber of Commerce, Regarding the Hydrail Initiative:
Mr. Thompson said a group in Mooresville had been trying to facilitate the development of the
world's first hydrogen fuel cell powered rail line between Mooresville and Charlotte. He said
the line would be a part of the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) network. Thompson said
the federal and state goverriments were encouraging hydrail systems, and a grant would be
written by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Thompson said the technology was
already in place due to a small hydrail locomotive being built in California and a switch engine
now being used at army yards.
Thompson gave the following eight purposes of the hydrail initiative.
I To justify and obtain federal funding toward extending the CATS north line into Mooresville.
1. To help President Bush's hydrogen -based energy independence policy.
3. To help the Centralina region "slave Off' transportation funding impoundment by the U.S. EPA due to air
quality non -attainment.
4. To exercise/demonstrate the Mooresville Chamber of Commerce's development and commercialization
relationship with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
5. To serve as the anchor project for the Mooresville Chamber's "Hydrogen Valley" development vision,
uniting communities in a hydrogen research and development and commercialization complex.