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IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MINUTES
NOVEMBER 1, 1994
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular
Session on Tuesday evening, November 1, 1994, at 6:00 P.m., County
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Souths Center treet Meeting Statesville, NC.ROOM, Ireell Those present Center,
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meeting were:
Sara K. Haire, Chairman
David A. Boone, Vice Chairman
Diane M. Hamby
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 Financeaandd Administrative
William Allison, Planner
CALL TO ORDER: Chairman Haire
INVOCATION: The Reverend Don Hawkins, Pastor
First Assembly of God
Statesville, NC
ADJUSTNgNT OB THE AGENDA: At the request of the county
manager, the board consented to adjust the agenda.
SPECIAL RESOLUTION
MOTION from Commissioner Stewart to adopt the following
special resolution:
WHEREAS, nearly 14 million Americans, 400,000 North
Carolinians, and between 2,815 and 4,130 residents of Iredell
County have diabetes, an incurable disease that impairs the body's
ability to convert sugar into energy; and
WHEREAS, diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death by
disease in the United States; and
WHEREAS, in this year alone, more than 650,000 Americans will
contract the disease and 160,000 will die from it, including a
disproportionate number of Hispanic Americans, African Americans,
and Native Americans; and
WHEREAS, people with diabetes have a high risk of developing
serious complications, such as blindness, kidney disease, heart
attack and stroke; and
WHEREAS, an increase in community awareness of diabetes, new
research findings, and the American Diabetes Association, may
stimulate public action in increasing research toward a cure, and
inspire people to take better control of their disease and live a
healthier life; let it therefore be
RESOLVED, that the Board of Commissioners of Iredell County do
hereby proclaim the month of November 1994 to be National Diabetes
Hoath in Iredell County and asks that every citizen participate in
efforts that support research to end diabetes and improve the lives
of all those who have this disease.
IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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