HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93011_0506 (2)IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR MINUTES
DECEMBER 7, 2004
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular Session on Tuesday,
December 7, 2004, at 7:00 p.m., in the Iredell County Government Center
(Commissioners' Meeting Room), 200 South Center Street, Statesville, NC.
Present were:
Chairman Sara Haire Tice
Vice Chairman Godfrey Williams
Steve D. Johnson
Marvin Norman
Ken M. Robertson
Staff present: County Manager Joel Mashburn, County Attorney Bill Pope,
Finance Director Susan Blumenstein, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Tice.
INVOCATION by Commissioner Robertson.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
ADJUSTMENTS OF THE AGENDA: OTIO by Chairman Tice to adjust the
agenda by the following actions.
Deletion: • Request for the Appointment of a Voting Delegate for the Legislative Goals
Conference Sponsored by the North Carolina Association of County
Commissioners Scheduled for Thursday and Friday, January 13-14, 2005, at
the Radisson Hotel, in High Point, NC
VOTING: Ayes — 5; Nays — 0.
APPOINTMENT BEFORE THE BOARD
Request for the Adoption of a Resolution in Support of the Federal Marriage
Amendment: The Reverend Greg Barefoot, Senior Pastor of Stony Point Baptist Church,
requested the commissioners to adopt a resolution supporting the federal marriage
amendment. Pastor Barefoot said the boards of commissioners in Alexander and Wilson
Counties had adopted similar resolutions, and his goal was to be placed on the agendas for
all of the counties in North Carolina. Barefoot's resolution is as follows:
RESOLUTION
IN
SUPPORT OF THE
FEDERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT
WHEREAS, marriage throughout history has been the basic building block of society
from time immemorial; and
WHEREAS, marriage is in fact the union of a man and a woman; and
WHEREAS, the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Massachusetts has declared in a
4 — 3 decision that the Massachusetts legislature must provide for same sex marriages and whereas
they have begun issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples; and
WHEREAS, there is the likelihood that under the Full Faith and Credit clause of the US
Constitution, activist judges will declare that these marriage contracts must be held as valid in all
50 states of the Union; and