HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93011_1245 (2)IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR MINUTES
JULY 18, 2006
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular Session on Tuesday,
July 18, 2006, 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
Ken Robertson
Absent: Commissioner Marvin Norman, due to being out of state.
Staff present: Acting County Manager Susan Blumenstein, County Attorney Bill Pope,
Planning & Code Enforcement Director Lynn Niblock, Planning Supervisor Steve Warren, and
Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Tice.
INVOCATION by Commissioner Johnson.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
PRESENTATION OF SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS
Recognition of Artis Brown and Gwen Parks, both Retirees of the Iredell County
Sheriffs Department: Chairman Tice expressed thanks to Mr. Brown, who was employed with
the county for 25 years. He was presented with an appreciation plaque. (Lieutenant Darren
Campbell attended the meeting with Brown.)
In absentia, Gwen Parks was recognized and thanked for her 19 years of service at the
sheriff s department.
APPOINTMENT BEFORE THE BOARD
Jeff Corbett, on behalf of NuCare Carolina Ambulance Service, Speaks in
Opposition to Allowing Additional Private Ambulance Companies to Operate in the County: Mr.
Corbett said NuCare was created in 1997, and he was at the meeting to express opposition to a
second private ambulance carrier operating in Iredell County. Corbett said he would not speak
about any particular applicants, but he would focus on why a second carrier would have a
negative affect. He distributed a handout and said market demand was being provided for both
emergency and non -emergency basic life support (BLS) transports. He said NuCare had
provided 97% (1,722 transports) of the non -emergency BLS transports from January through
June of this year. (Iredell County EMS provided 54 transports or the remaining 3%.) Mr.
Corbett said recently, a fourth truck was added to the fleet to operate during the peak hours of 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. Corbett said if the market demanded more vehicles, they would be added. He said
that on May 1, Jerry Ashley with the state, made a "surprise" inspection that rendered positive
findings. Mr. Corbett said there was no need for another private carver, and if allowed, a second
service would fragment the market creating a situation where non -emergency calls in the less
profitable time periods (weekends/ovemights) would no longer be provided. He said then, the
county EMS would have to provide these calls on top of its already busy schedule.
Corbett asked the board to either (1) look at the data to see if it justified another carrier or
(2) table the matter until additional information could be reviewed. Additionally, he asked time
for his fourth truck to become established in the community to meet market demand. Corbett
said he feared repercussions if the board did not study the market.