HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_1108IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR MINUTES
MAY 6. 2003
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular Session on Tuesday,
May 6, 2003, at 7:00 p.m., in the Iredell County Government Center (Commissioners' Meeting
Room), 200 South Center Street, Statesville, NC.
Present were:
Chairman Steve D. Johnson
Vice Chairman Godfrey Williams
Doug Madison
Marvin Norman
Sara Haire Tice
Staffpresent: County Manager Joel Mashburn, County Attorney Bill Pope, Finance
Director Susan Blumenstein, Planning & Code Enforcement Director Lynn Niblock, Planning
Supervisor Ron Smith, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Johnson.
INVOCATION by Vice Chairman Williams.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ADJUSTMENTS OF THE AGENDA: OTION by Chairman Johnson to revise the
agenda by the following actions.
Additions: • Presentation by Attorney John Fuller Regarding a Cemetery Abandonment
Request and the Disinterment/Re-interment of Human Remains (Property to be
purchased by the Iredell-Statesville School System for the construction of a new K-8 Educational
Facility)
• Request from the Tax Administrator to Transfer $27,000 from Salaries/Wages
(Regular) to Contracted Services and Salaries/Wages (Part-time)
Deletions: • Request for Approval of a Communications Tower Lease Agreement with the
Harmony Volunteer Fire Department (Olin Station)
VOTING: Ayes — 5; Nays — 0.
APPOINTMENTS BEFORE THE BOARD
Presentation of the FY 2003-04 Home and Community Care Block Grant Funding
Plan by Anna Rice, the Executive Director for the Council on Aging: Mrs. Rice said there
were nearly 24,000 county citizens who were 60 years of age or over. She said 12,200 out of
the 24,000 were 70 years of age and above, and the frail elderly (85 years of age and above) were
the fastest growing group in the county. Rice said 70% of the clients receiving services, as of
June 30, 2002, were 75 years of age or older. She said 25% of these were 85 and older.
Mrs. Rice said the Home and Community Care Block Grant Committee was instructed to
use the FY 2003 initial allocation of $616,951 in preparing for the upcoming year.
Chairman Johnson thanked Mrs. Rice for the work being done on behalf of the county's
senior citizens and their families.
OTIOI by Commissioner Madison to approve the FY 2003-04 Home and Community
Care Block Grant funding plan as presented by Mrs. Rice.
VOTING: Ayes — 5; Nays — 0.
A copy of the county funding plan (DOA -731) is as follows.