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MINUTES
FEBRUARY 21, 1995 - 7:00 P.M.
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met at 7:00 p.m.,
County Commissioners' Meeting Room, Iredell County Government
Center, 200 South Center Street, Statesville, NC. Those present
for the meeting were:
Sara K. Haire, Chairman
David A. Boone, Vice Chairman
Stephen D. Johnson
C. Douglas Madison, Jr.
Alice M. Stewart
Staff present: Joel Mashburn, County Manager
William P. Pope, County Attorney
Alice Fortner, Clerk to the Board
Susan Blumenstein, Director of Finance and
Administrative Matters
Jerry Lundy, Director of Planning aad
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Brent Weisner, Tax Assessor ��o
Bill Mashburn, Health Director
CALL TO ORDER: By Chairman Haire MAP 1^ 1
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INVOCATION: By Commissioner Johnson t„
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ADJUSTMENT OF AGENDA: The county manager made some
recommendations for adjustment of the agenda and the agenda was
adjusted on a MOTION from Chairman Haire and a unanimous vote of
the board.
SPECIAL RESOLUTION
HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION REQUESTED TO BE BRIBED BY THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY: Commissioner Boone read the resolution that was being
proposed for adoption. There is a bill in the General Assembly on
this matter, Mr. Boone said, and our legislators have asked for
some guidance for the Iredell County Commissioners. For that
reason this resolution was proposed.
MOTION from Commissioner Boone to adopt the following
resolution as just read by himself:
WHEREAS, the ad valorem property tax imposes an especially
heavy burden on senior citizen homeowners living on fixed incomes;
and
WHEREAS, inflation has greatly reduced the value in current
dollars of the existing homestead exemption; and
WHEREAS, the revenue loss caused by the proposed increase in
the homestead exemption would total less than one-tenth of one per
cent of the Iredell County budget; now therefore be it
RESOLVED, that we, the Iredell County Board of Commissioners,
do hereby endorse and support legislation to raise from $15,000 to
$20,000 the amount of the value of residential property excluded
from taxation under the Homestead Exemption; and from $11,000 to
$15,000 the maximum income level below which a taxpayer qualifies
for the exemption.
IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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