HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93011_1361 (2)IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR MINUTES
DECEMBER 5, 2006
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular Session on Tuesday,
December 5, 2006, at 7:00 P.M., in the Iredell County Government Center (Commissioners'
Meeting Room), 200 South Center Street, Statesville, NC.
Present were:
Chairman Marvin Norman
Vice Chairman Sara Haire Tice
Steve Johnson
Ken Robertson
Godfrey Williams
Staff present: County Manager Joel Mashburn, County Attorney Bill Pope, Deputy
County Manager Susan Blumenstein, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Norman
INVOCATION by Commissioner Johnson
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ADJUSTMENTS OF THE AGENDA (none)
APPOINTMENT BEFORE THE BOARD
Presentation by Mr. Vince Dicarlo, Chief Meteorologist with the National Weather
Service Office (Greenville -Spartanburg, SC) Regarding Iredell County being Designated
as a StorntReady County: Mr. Dicarlo said the Stormready program helped municipalities and
county's find ways to reduce the potential for disastrous, weather-related consequences. He
praised the county's emergency management personnel who had worked to achieve the
designation and for specifically accomplishing the following:
♦ Establishing a 24-hour warning point and emergency operations center
♦Developing different methods to receive and publicly deliver severe weather
warnings/forecasts
♦ Creating a system to monitor local weather conditions
♦ Promoting/emphasizing public readiness via community seminars
♦Developing a formal hazardous weather plan (including weather spotter training
and emergency excises)
Mr. DiCarlo then presented two StorntReady road signs to Emergency
Management/Communications Director David Martin and Assistant County Manager Tracy
Jackson.
PUBLIC HEARINGS
Chairman Norman declared the meeting to be in a public hearing.
Consideration of the Proposed Schedules, Standards, and Rules for the 2007 Real
Property Revaluation: Tax Administrator Bill Doolittle said state law required that all real
property be assessed every four to eight years. He said Iredell County used a four-year cycle
and 2007 would be the next revaluation year. Mr. Doolittle then presented a PowerPoint
presentation that explained the process used in the reappraisal. (A copy of the presentation may be
found in the November 14 briefing minutes.)
No one else desired to speak, and Chairman Norman adjourned the hearing.
(The Schedule of Values has been scheduled for adoption on December 19.)