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IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMIT
BUDGET SESSION MINUTES
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2007
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met for a Budget Review Session on
Thursday, June 7, 2007, at 5:30 P.M., in the Iredell County Government Center (South Wing
Conference Room), 200 South Center Street, Statesville, NC.
Present were:
Chairman Marvin Norman
Vice Chairman Sara Haire Tice
Steve Johnson
Godfrey Williams
Absent: Ken Robertson
Staff present: County Manager Joel Mashburn, Deputy County Manager Susan
Blumenstein, Assistant Finance Director Deb Alford, Assistant County Manager Tracy Jackson,
Health Director Donna Campbell, Environmental Health Supervisor Kelly Sheeks,
Administrative Officer Bill Griffith, DSS Director Don Wall, Planning Director Ron Smith,
Deputy Planning Director Steve Warren, Inspections Director Lynn Niblock, and Clerk to the
Board Jean Moore.
Others present: Bethany Fuller with the Record & Landmark and Lee Ann Sherrill with
the Iredell Citizen.
Chairman Norman called the meeting to order.
600 — Health Department: Health Director Donna Campbell said that at the
May 1, 2007 meeting, the environmental division (onsite waste water section) was directed to
compute the fees needed to provide revenues between $750,000 to $850,000. Campbell said
$957,000 was needed, and she justified the estimate by the following:
Actual expenditures (est.) for FY 06-07 amount to $917,440
Medical insurance increase 8,205
Across the board salary increases 17,465
Estimated merit increases 14,083
$957,193
She said to cover the $957,000 in costs, the staff was recommending fee revenues of
$951,125 and the usage of $6,000 in anticipated grant funds. Campbell said the $957,125 in
revenue should be sufficient for a self-supporting program.
Campbell said 56% of the current waste water sanitarians started out of interns. She said
the new well program would officially begin on July 1, 2008, but fees couldn't be charged until
that time. Mrs. Campbell said the well program sanitarians; however, would have to be hired
and trained during the first six months of 2008 in order to be ready July 1.
Campbell was asked if the costs incurred during the first six months could be recovered
in the fees established as of July 1, and she said the staff would research this.
Sheeks added that it took sanitarians two years to become certified, and there wasn't
much productivity until after the first year of employment.
New onsite wastewater fees were discussed as follows:
New Sys em Permits Onsite Wastewater 2007/2008
New System Permits Current Fee Proposed Fee
Gravity $350 $400
Pum $900 $1000