HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_1247IREDEL.L COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR MINUTES
OCTOBER 211-2003
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular Session cm
Tuesday, October 21, 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
Sara Haire Tice
.Absent: Commissioner Marvin Norman was unable to attend the meeting due to
a recent hospitalization for pneumonia.
Staff present: County Manager Joel Mashburn, County Attorney Bill Pope,
Finance Director Susan Blumenstein, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Johnson.
INVOCATION by Chairman Johnson.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
ADJUSTMENTS OF THE AGENDA: OTIO by Chairman Johnson to
adjust the agenda by the following action.
Addition: Closed Session to Discuss Property Acquisition - G.S. 143-318.11(a) (5)
VOTING: Ayes - 4; Nays - 0.
APPOINTMENTS BEFORE THE BOARD
Danny Harbinson, A Representative from the North Carolina Office of
Emergency Medical Services Announces the Official Designation of Iredell
County's EMS System: Mr. Harbinson said the EMS plan had been received and
approved by the North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services. He said the
county's plan complied with new state laws and that it met, and in some areas exceeded,
mandated requirements.
Roy West, a Member of the Counseling Center's Board of Directors and
Mac Funderburk, the Executive Director of the Counseling Center, Speak in
Reference to the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council's Decision to not fund the
Organization during FY 2003-2004: West said that for the past 12 years the
Counseling Center, a non-profit agency, had been awarded juvenile justice funding. He
said this year, however, the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council (JCPC) voted to not
fund the organization. West said the Counseling Center had not heard any complaints
in the past year about its services, and he and the other board of directors were
"confounded" by the JCPC's choices regarding the two agencies recommended for the
funding. He said one agency, Crossroads Behavioral Healthcare, was being required by
the state to divest itself of its services, and the other, Don -Lin, was a private for-profit
agency. West said the county government had faith in the Counseling Center's
services due to the contractual arrangement for the Employee Assistance Program.
Commissioner Madison asked where the Center had received its referrals during
the past 12 years.
West said the juvenile probation officers.