HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93009_2179 (2)Library: The manager said nothing was included in the budget for a branch library in
Mooresville. No changes from manager's recommendation.
Recreation: No changes. Commissioner Johnson said the supplies line item was increased
due to the National Guard working at the Stumpy Creek site. Johnson said the Recreation Advisory
Board would soon make a recommendation on one of the Duke Power access areas. One site has
potential, and it is located off Buffalo Shoals Road.
East Alexander Fire District: Same tax rate recommended ($.0425).
ML Mourne Fire District: The current tax is $ .035 and the proposed rate is $ .0275. It
was mentioned that this VFD had a fund balance of over $200,000. Bowles and Haire said the VFD
wanted to build a new building.
Shepherds Fire District: Current tax rate is $ .03 and the proposed rate is $ .0225.
Blumenstein said the VFD had a fund balance over $200,000. Bowles said this department also
wanted to construct a new building.
Capital Reserve Fund/Parks Reserve Fund/Health Care Benefits Fund: Blumenstein
explained these items.
Solid Waste Enterprise Fund: The manager said rate increases were proposed for the
disposal of shingles, non -friable asbestos, the household waste fee, and the elderly exemption fee.
He also said $245,000 had been added to the budget for engineering costs associated with the Phase
III landfill cell.
IREDELL-STATESVILLE SCHOOL FUNDING: Commissioner Fortner said the
manager's proposed ad valorem tax was $ .435, and he had left the school funding decision up the
board of commissioners. She added that on June 1, 1999, the Iredell-Statesville system had
requested a letter of intent for the construction of Phase II and III for the K-8 school on Perth Road
and for a new southern high school.
Commissioner Bowles added the system was also requesting 2.62 million in capital funding
for replacement of the administrative annex. He said he was not willing to address this need until
the children could be moved out of mobile units. He said that if administration needed space they
could lease.
A discussion was then held on the different ways that could be used to fund school needs,
i.e., General Obligation Bonds, Certificates of Participation, and direct placement loans. The
manager said that to equalize the tax rate with revaluation, the tax rate would be 410 and this had
an allowance for growth. The county manager also said the debt service just to complete Phase II
& III for the Lakeshore School would take about "a penny and half."
MOTION by Chairman Haire to appropriate $4,300,525 to fund the debt service for
Lakeshore Middle School -Phase II/III, a new southern high school, and an addition to the
Mooresville High School.
VOTING: Ayes - 2 (Haire/Fortner); Nays -3 (Bowles/Johnson/Stewart)
MOTION by Corrunissioner Bowles to increase funding to the school system as long as
the tax rate did not exceed 45¢ and for the funds to be used for Lakeshore Middle School - Phase
11/III and any money remaining to be used for the new southern high school (planning & site
grading).
Chairman Haire said she would vote for the motion only because "it was the best one on the
table."