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IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
BRIEFING MINUTES
DECEMBER s_ 199S
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Briefing
Session, Tuesday, December 5, 1995, 5:00 p.m., South Wing
Conference Room, Iredell County Government Center, 200 South
Center Street, Statesville, NC.
Present for the meeting were:
Sara K. Haire, Chairman
David A. Boone, Vice Chairman
Steve Johnson
Doug Madison
Alice M. Stewart
Staff present: Joel Mashburn, County Manager
Jerry Lundy, Dir. of Services & Development
Susan Blumenstein, Dir. of Finance & Adm. Serv.
Ron Weatherman, Solid Waste Director
Evie Caldwell, Purchasing Agent
Carolyn Harris, Personnel Director
REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF QUALIFICATIONS STATEMENT & RPP FOR
IREDELL COUNTY SOLID WASTE FACILITY'B UTILISATION OF LANDFILL
GABS Ron Weatherman was accompanied by Mr. William Brinker,
Director and President of the Enerdyne Power Systems, Inc. This
company proposes to extract gas from both landfill sites and
covert this into power. Brinker said he had worked with several
other counties throughout the state (should have about ten
current contracts). Pitt County's gas goes to a hospital. Wake
County has wells going into the mountains, and Henderson County
has an agreement whereby its converted gas/power goes to Seneca
Foods. A use for Iredell's gas has not been determined, but
Brinker mentioned there were numerous steam industrial operators
in the area that could benefit. Brinker said they normally
structure a contract (service) for a 15 to 20 year period. All
of his agreements are structured about the same and payments are
about the same. The Iredell contract would be in the amount of
$6,000 per year paid by Enerdyne for: (1) gas rights (2) gas
wells in ground (3) compressor station (4) contracted flare and
(5) measurement controls. The State has set a deadline of
December 31, 1995 for the paperwork to be received. Competition
for the Enerdyne Company is very limited -- only about 13 gas
developers in the 50 states.
Mr. Mashburn mentioned that Henderson County's attorney
(Angela Scarrett) was assisting Bill Pope in the preparation of a
contract for Iredell County.
Evie Caldwell mentioned that she had talked to Frayda
Bluestein of the Institute of Government. Bluestein has advised
there are no statutes which govern this issue. This type of
agreement would be close to an easement situation but not
identical. She mentioned this type of arrangement would be
similar to a "profit a prendre."
Pertaining to environmental compliance, Brinker said his
company's goal would be maximum collection of the gas and the
County's goal would be minimum emission.
MR. ROBERT L. DIREST AREA DIRECTOR OF TRI -COUNTY RENTAL
ERALTEs Mr. Dirks, the new director and a 25 -year employee of a
mental health facility in Virginia, was accompanied by Mr.
Sterling Wooten, the new finance director for Tri -County. Dirks
spoke highly of the treatment programs currently in place. He
mentioned that problem areas kept popping up, but nothing that he
and Wooten saw as unfixable. Wooten previously was employed for