HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_0456IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MINUTES
JUNE 19, 2001
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular Session on Tuesday,
June 19, 2001, in the Iredell County Government Center, 200 South Center Street,
Statesville, 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, County Attorney William P.
Pope, Finance Director Susan Blumenstein, Planning Supervisor Ron Smith, and Clerk to
the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Tice.
INVOCATION by Commissioner Johnson.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
ADJUSTMENTS OF THE AGENDA: Mq!M by Commissioner Tice t4
approve the following agenda adjustments.
Additions: *Presentation of a Plaque to Dr. Perry Bartelt for his 12 years of Service as
the Medical Director for the Iredell County Emergency Medical Services.
*Request for the Confirmation of Susan Blumenstein and Jim Vernon as
Acting County Managers during the Vacation of Joel Mashburn
*Request for Approval of Budget Amendment #53 to Recognize EMS Private
Donations and to Appropriate for the Purchase of Computer Cards
*Request for Permission to Apply for a Hispanic Service Grant with the
State Library of North Carolina.
Deletion: •Closed Session for the Purpose of Discussing an Attorney -Client matter:
G.S. 143-318.11 (a) 3.
VOTING: Ayes — 5; Nays - 0.
APPOINTMENTS BEFORE THE BOARD
PRESENTATION FROM CECIL MAYNOR AND PAUL SKILLICORl1
PERTAINING TO A PROPOSED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
(DUCKWEEK GREENHOUSE) AT THE SOLID WASTE FACILITY: Paul
life" in the international development business in Bangladesh, India, and Peru.
Skillicom said he was an environmental engineer, and he had spent most of his "working
He said
his career had been spent in developing wastewater treatment systems. Skillicom said he
had been able "to treat water and generate some incentive from the treatment process that
would encourage people to utilize waste treatment." He said a duckweed wastewater
system would reduce total nitrogen to less than .1 milligram per liter. Skillicom said the
Third and Fourth Creek Treatment Plants treated the nitrogento .5 or .6 milligrams per
liter. He said that with the duckweed's treatment efficiency the water could be recycled
back into public homes. Skillicom said that in addition tothe recycled water, a factory
that produced enzymes (feed) for chickens, hogs, and cattle would occur. Mr. Skillicom
said he was proposing to place a duckwater system that would tap into one of the lines
going into Fourth Creek, and he was also proposing to use the gas generated by the
Enerdyne Corporation to heat the facility. Skillicom said he was currently working in
Hookertown, N.C. (between Greenville and Kinston). He said he was requesting to move
his operations to Iredell County in about six months.
County Manager Mashburn said the treatment facilities mentioned by Mr.
Skillicom were city systems, and they were not owned or operated by the county. He