HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_0855IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR MINUTES
SEPTEMBER 3, 2002
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular Session on Tuesday,
September 3, 2002, at 7:00 p.m., in the Iredell County Government Center, 200 South Center
Street, Statesville, NC.
Present: Chairman Sara Haire Tice
Vice Chairman Karen B. Ray
Tommy E. Bowles
Steve D. Johnson
R. Godfrey Williams
Staff Present: County Manager Joel Mashburn, County Attorney Bill Pope, Finance
Director Susan Blumenstein, Planning Supervisor Ron Smith, Animal Control Supervisor Sidney
Weisner, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Tice
INVOCATION by Commissioner Ray
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
ADJUSTMENTS OF THE AGENDA: by Chairman Tice to adjust the
agenda by adding a Request for the Approval of a Disease Vector Control Ordinance.
VOTING: Ayes — 5; Nays — 0
PUBLIC HEARINGS
Chairman Tice declared the meeting to be in a public hearing.
CONSIDERATION OF AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE FOR
MILLARD REFRIGERATION: Jeff McKay, the Director for the Greater Statesville
Development Corporation, said the Millard Refrigeration Company desired to purchase and
expand the former Polar Cold Storage facility located off Highway 90. He said the first
phase investment would be $6 million, and the company would employ 20 people. McKay
said the site needed infrastructure (water/sewer) improvements, and he was seeking a
$112,800 (over five-year period) economic incentive package for the company.
No one else spoke, and Chairman Tice adjourned the hearing.
OTIO by Commissioner Johnson to grant the request and to allow an economic
incentive package up to $112,800 (over a five-year period), based on a $6 million investment
in Iredell County by Millard Refrigeration.
VOTING: Ayes — 5; Nays — 0
Chairman Tice declared the meeting to be in a public hearing.
CONSIDERATION OF AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE FOR
BESTSWEET, INC: Melanie O'Connell Underwood, the Executive Vice President and
Economic Developer for the Mooresville -South Iredell Chamber of Commerce said
BestSweet, formerly Beacon Sweets, desired to make a $7.8 million expansion and that the
company was seeking an economic incentive from the county. She said the company
currently employed 220 people and the expansion would create 40 new jobs.
Andy Cohen, the Chairman for BestSweet, said his company had been selected by
Pharmacia, to manufacture Luden's Throat Lozenges. Cohen said BestSweet was a contract
manufacturer, and as such, its name did not appear on some product packaging. Mr. Cohen
said an expansion, both in the facility and equipment, was needed to accommodate the five-