HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_05963. Request from the Sheffield-Calahan Volunteer Fire Department for Approval
of Budget Amendment #15 for the Purchase of a $15,000 Replacement Tanker
(Funds from Reserve Truck Fund)
4• Request from the South Iredell Volunteer Fire Department for Approval of a
Lease Purchase Agreement with United Financial of North Carolina, Inc., in the
amount of $137,000 for a 2001 International Fire Truck and for the Refinancing of
$20,000 of Existing Debt for a Total Transaction Amount of $157,000
5. Request for Approval of a Contract in an Amount not to Exceed $6,900.00, with
Emergency Services Consulting Group, for an Assessment of the Volunteer Fire
Departments' Facilities, Apparatus and Equipment
6. Request from the Sheriffs Department for Elaine W. Marlowe and Terry Lee
Beck to be Designated Deputy Finance Officers
7. Request from the Sheriffs Department for Approval of Budget Amendment #16
in the Amount of $26,600 for the Purpose of Transferring Commissary Funds for
the Purchase of Two Canines, a Lap Top Computer, a Web Site, and a Surplus
School Bus from the Iredell-Statesville School System: The costs for the various
purchases were:
Two (2) canines (one to replace a retired road -duty canine and the other for the jail) $21,200
Lap Top Computer to be used by the Crime Analysis Officer .................. 2,400
Web Site (will supply crime statistics and other public information) ..........
Surplus School Bus.....2,000.............................................................. 1,000
$26,600
(see briefing minutes for the purpose of the bus purchase)
8. Request for Approval of the October 16, 2001 Minutes
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Request for Approval of a Capital Project Ordinance for the Iredell County
Government Services Building in South Iredell for $80,400: Finance Director
Blumenstein said the $80,400 would be derived from the capital reserve fund and any
amount remaining at the end of the project would be returned to the capital reserve fund,
or would become a part of an amended project ordinance once the renovation bids were
received.
NIOT1O by Chairman Tice to approve the Capital Project Ordinance in the
Amount of $80,400 for the Iredell County Government Services Building in South
Iredell.
Commissioner Johnson said his primary concerns about the motion were economic.
He said the Federal Reserve had made a projection that the United States economy, in
this quarter, would shrink by one percent. Johnson said the State of North Carolina had
projected that the state's economy, in this quarter, could shrink by three percent. He said
the state budget estimates established the budget "we are in now" and this was with the
tax increase. Johnson said members of the county's legislative delegation had said that
probably by January, the state would be in a financial bind again. Mr. Johnson said he
had concerns about the county's finances, since the state would probably reconcile its
budget the same way it did last year - - by taking the county's money away. He said that
if the county financed the hospital debt that in subsequent years, using one of the methods
of repayment that Mrs. Blumenstein had shared, and the one recommended by the local
Government Commission, the debt service on the project could run as much as $360,000
a year. He said the operating costs, and the debt service would be close to $500,000.
Johnson said he thought it was imprudent to incur that type of obligation in an economic
downturn.
VOTING: Ayes - 4; Nays - I (Johnson)