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BRIEFING MINUTES
SEPTEMBER 16, 2003
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Briefing Session on
Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 7:00 p.m., in the Iredell County Government Center
(South Wing Conference Room), 200 South Center Street, Statesville, NC.
Present were:
Chairman Steve D. Johnson
Vice Chairman Godfrey Williams
Doug Madison
Marvin Norman
Sara Haire Tice
Staff present: County Manager Joel Mashburn, Finance Director Susan
Blumenstein, Tax Administrator Bill Doolittle, Transportation Director Ben Garrison,
and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Johnson.
Consideration of a $47,000,000.00 Certificates of Participation (COPS)
Financing & Refinancing: Finance Director Blumenstein said the bond sale date for
the Certificates of Participation projects would be December 3, 2003. She said the
Mooresville School board had encountered a "wetlands" problem with the property
where the new intermediate school was to be located, and the bids would not be
approved until December 1, 2003. Blumenstein mentioned the total indebtedness
remaining on the existing installment financing, dated October 10, 2002, was $3.2
million. (Additional information regarding this matter, along with a listing of the
projects included in the COPs, may be found in the regular minutes.)
Request for Approval of the August 2003 Refunds and Releases: Tax
Administrator Bill Doolittle requested approval of the August 2003 refunds and
releases. He also said the Board of Equalization & Review would probably conclude its
review of tax appeals in late October of this year.
Request for Approval of a Position Reclassification in the Transportation
Department: Transportation Director Garrison said his department had a part-time
position that could be converted to a full-time position, and the purpose of this action
would be to have an employee who could work down the backlog of missing county
road signs. He said previously, the Vocational Workshop provided the sign installation,
but the agency had recently undergone management changes. He said this was one
reason why there was a backlog of approximately 100 signs needing to be installed. He
said the extra money needed to fund the position could be transferred from the 911
Emergency Telephone System Fund. Garrison continued by saying an individual
recently applied for a driver's position in his department who had previously worked in
Mecklenburg County installing road signs. He said this individual, plus some initial
assistance from the employees in the Facility Services Department, could be used to
get the work caught up. Garrison said that once the backlog had been eliminated, he felt
one employee could handle the sign installations.
Due to so many of the signs being down because of vandalism, Commissioner
Williams asked how much each sign cost.
Garrison said $100.
ADJOURNMENT: Chairman Johnson adjourned the briefing session at 5:20
p.m.
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Clerk to the Board