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December 7, 2020
IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
INCUMBENT BOARD
December 7, 2020
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in a continued session on Monday,
December 7, 2020 at 10:00 PM, in the Commissioners’ Meeting Room located in the Iredell
County Government Center 200 South Center Street, Statesville, NC.
Board Members Present
Chairman James Mallory
Vice Chairman Thomas Bowles
Gene Houpe
Ken Robertson
Board Members Participating Remotely
Marvin Norman
Staff present: County Manager Beth Jones, County Attorney Lisa Valdez, Deputy County
Manager Susan Robertson, Assistant County Manager Joe Pierce, and Clerk to the Board Amy
Anderson.
CALL TO ORDER: Chairman James Mallory called the meeting to order.
INVOCATION: Vice Chairman Bowles led in prayer.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Led by Chairman Mallory
Chairman Mallory explained this would be the last duly constituted meeting of the
2018/2020 board.
Consideration of a request from Equity Commercial Properties to rezone
approximately 2 acres along Wilkesboro Highway from Single-Family Residential (R-20) /
Neighborhood Business (NB) to General Business Conditional District (GBCD): Chairman
Mallory explained the Board held a public hearing regarding the rezoning request on December
1, 2020, at which, no one wished to speak against the request. The matter was held open for 24
hours for comment as required by the NC legislature if any member of the Board participates
remotely in the meeting. No comments were received after the public hearing.
MOTION by Vice Chairman Bowles to approve amending the County’s 2030 Horizon
Plan to extend Rural Commercial designation to the entire property and to approve the zoning map
amendment. The zoning approval and land use plan amendment are reasonable and in the public
interest because the property directly adjoins the 2030 Horizon Plan Rural Commercial area, it will
result in the repurposing of an existing vacant structure, and the purposed conditions mitigate
change in use concerns.
VOTING: Ayes – 5; Nays – 0
Iredell County
PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT
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PLANNING STAFF REPORT
REZONING CASE # 2011-1
STAFF PROJECT CONTACT: Leslie M. Meadows
EXPLANATION OF THE REQUEST
This is a request to rezone a spilt -zoned parcel of land along Wilkesboro Highway, approximately
2 acres, from Single-Family Residential (R-20)/Neighborhood Business (NB) to General Business
Conditional District (GBCD). This request is conditional per the submitted application, and will be
limited by excluding certain GB uses as attached to the request.
OWNER/APPLICANT
OWNER: Trinity Volunteer Fire Department
APPLICANT: Eric Thompson, Equity Commercial Properties
PROPERTY INFORMATION
ADDRESS/LOCATION:
2997 Wilkesboro Hwy; more specifically, PIN#:
4727560709.000.
SURROUNDING LAND USE: There are a variety of NB
uses to the north. Otherwise, the site is surrounded by
residential R-20 and RA properties, with Yadkin Baptist
Church lying diagonally to the southeast.
SIZE: The total acreage to be rezoned includes
approximately 2 acres.
EXISTING LAND USE: Vacant Fire Department building built in 1972.
ZONING HISTORY: The property was zoned Single-Family Residential (R-20) when county-wide
zoning was established in 1990. However, in 1995, the northern portion of the property was rezon ed
to Neighborhood Business (NB), along with a block of neighboring commercial properties to the
north. The Trinity Volunteer Fire Department later purchased and combined the southern R -20
portion to the property in order to add on to their building.
OTHER JURISDICTIONAL INFORMATION: This primarily rural area is located entirely within the
County’s jurisdiction, and is not in close proximity to any municipal Urban Service Area.
OTHER SITE CHARACTERISTICS: This property is located within the regulated South Yadkin WS-IV-PA
Protected Watershed Area. Proposed new development will be governed by the 70% or 10/70
Rule; 24% built-upon area with curb and gutter (36% without), after 10% is developed. The property
is not located in a flood hazard zone.
UTILITIES: This site is currently served by well and septic.
IMPACTS ON LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND/OR FACILITES
TRAFFIC: The closest traffic count along Wilkesboro Highway (NC115) is to the north past Windy Hill
Road, which had a traffic count of 6,200 vehicles per day in 2018. According to the
Comprehensive Transportation Plan 2008 Study Report for Iredell County, the cap acity for this
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section of Wilkesboro Highway is approximately 13,800 vehicles per day through the year 2030.
The speed limit along this portion of Wilkesboro Highway is 45 mph.
SCHOOLS: This is a commercial rezoning and should have no implications on loc al schools.
EMERGENCY SERVICES: This proposal has been reviewed by the Iredell County Fire Marshal’s Office
and Iredell County EMS. Neither office addressed any concerns regarding the request.
REQUIRED REVIEWS BY OTHER AGENCIES
LOCAL: The applicant must provide a site plan to the Planning & Development Department for
review to develop the properties. Zoning requirements such as parking, landscaping, and
buffering will be reviewed at such time. Erosion & sedimentation control standards will also be
reviewed for compliance.
STATE: Other than building code, there should be no formal state agency review at this time.
FEDERAL: None at this time.
STAFF AND BOARD COMMENTS
STAFF COMMENTS: The applicant represents Reaume Bros Racing, currently competitive in the
Camping World Truck Series. Development plans include converting the existing vacant Volunteer
Fire Department building into a successful race shop. It is important to note that in addition to
obtaining a rezoning, the intended race shop use also requires a Special Use Permit and Variance
approval by the Board of Adjustment. As a conditional rezoning request, agreed upon conditions
should help mitigate initial change in use concerns. The specific conditions imposed as part of the
conditional rezoning application are as follows:
1.) The following GB uses would be excluded, not permitted: Amusement arcades and indoor
places of entertainment; including bowling alleys, pool rooms, skating rinks, & batting
cages, Bingo games, Correctional institutions, Dance halls; including night clubs, Go-kart,
motorcycle, & similar vehicle tracks, Indoor shooting ranges, Adult oriented businesses,
Bars, Bus stations, Crematories not associated with a funeral home, Drive -in theaters, Liquor
stores, Motels & hotels, Pawn shops, Private clubs, and Race shops.
2.) Create a no thru-access to Clearcut Lane with landscaping barrier or fence.
3.) Add additional landscaping along the south side of the building creating additional
screening/noise buffer.
Being along a major thoroughfare, Wilkesboro Highway (NC115), the parcel in question is partially
inside of and adjacent to what the 2030 Horizon Plan calls a Rural Commercial area. Rural
Commercial areas include existing commercial uses or areas intended for future commercial uses
that are located along major roadways in rural areas. The intent of these areas is that they will
remain rural in character for the planning period and will not be served by public or private water
and sanitary sewer systems. Land uses appropriate within Rural Commercial areas include
supporting farm services, small-scale commercial uses, small-scale neighborhood service
businesses, restaurants, churches, and institutional uses. However, the 2030 Horizon Plan does state
that other commercial and office uses could be permissible in the Rural Commercial designation,
provided the property is rezoned to a conditional district.
Land use plan designations are typically viewed as conceptual, but staff feels that with this
particular request being an increase in intensity of use, an amendment to the land use plan would
be needed. Staff feels comfortable including the entire parcel within the rural commercial
designation due to it adjoining existing commercial uses, and the fact that Special Use Permit and
Variance requirements must still be met prior to operation.
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Staff does have some concerns of permitting a race shop in close proximity to a residential area.
These concerns are largely related to noise. However, there was limit ed concern from neighbors
at the required public input meeting. If GBCD zoning is approved, the applicant will still need to
apply for a Special Use Permit where the Board of Adjustment can specifically look at the
evidence to determine if a race shop is an appropriate use in the area.
The Planning staff can support the proposed rezoning request, and subsequent 2030 Horizon Plan
map amendment, based on the following:
The property directly adjoins the 2030 Horizon Plan Rural Commercial area, it will resul t in the
repurposing of an existing vacant structure, and the proposed conditions mitigate change in use
concerns.
PUBLIC INPUT MEETING: A public input meeting was held on Thursday, Oct. 1st, 2020, from 5:30pm
- 6:30 pm, onsite at the original Trinity Volunteer Fire Department along Wilkesboro Highway.
Approximately five property owners from the area were in attendance to hear the race shop
proposal. Some opposition was expressed, and various concerns were voiced and debated.
Those present representing the fire department were in favor of the repurposed use. A copy of
the applicant’s summary of said public input meeting has been included at the end of this report.
SITE REVIEW COMMITTEE: Staff visited site on October 16, 2020.
PLANNING BOARD ACTION: On November 4, 2020, the Planning Board held a public meeting to
hear the rezoning request. The applicant explained ways in which the current building is readily
equipped for a race shop. There were four family members present representing the elderly
neighboring landowner, who expressed noise and property value concerns. The board voted 9-0
to recommend denial of the rezoning with the following motion:
Motion to recommend denial of the 2030 Horizon Plan map amendment and zoning map
amendment and to make a finding that said denial is reasonable and in the public interest
because….
As a result of public opposition and planning board denial, the applicant met with Trinity
Volunteer Fire Department members to reconsider the conditions of the rezoning request. Due
to the size, location, and layout of the existing building, it was decided to move forward with the
GBCD rezoning to increase the marketability of the site. However, race shops have been
removed/excluded from the list of permitted GB uses.
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Request from Human Resources for approval of Public Official Bonds: Human
Resources Director Sandra Gregory presented the official bonds for approval n accordance with
NCGS 58-72-50. The bonds include the County Finance Director, Appointed Tax Collector and
Deputy Collectors, and the elected officials in the positions of County Sheriff and Register of
Deeds.
Name Position Amount of Guarantee
Darren Campbell Sheriff $10,000
Ronald Wyatt Register of Deeds $10,000
Debra Cheek Finance Director $100,000
William Furches Tax Collector $50,000
Susan Warren Asst. Tax Collector $50,000
Ann Gray Ray Asst. Tax Collector $50,000
Shannon Lester Deputy Tax Collector $50,000
Kelli Corder Deputy Tax Collector $50,000
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Kellie Roper Deputy Tax Collector $50,000
Laura Stroud Deputy Tax Collector $50,000
MOTION by Vice Chairman Bowles to approve the Public Official Bonds.
VOTING: Ayes – 5; Nays – 0
Request from Clerk to the Board for approval of minutes from the meetings on
November 17 & December 1, 2020: There were no corrections or additions:
MOTION by Commissioner Robertson to approve the minutes as presented.
VOTING: Ayes – 5; Nays – 0
Chairman Mallory said the last meeting included a good recap from Vice Chairman Bowles
and Commissioner Robertson.
Vice Chairman Bowles said, “The one bit of advice I have for the Board is to move forward
with the Library, Parks and Recreation, and any services the County is not mandated to fund. I feel
like it would be in the best interest of every Iredell County citizen to find a funding stream for
those services. I think the ad valorem taxes should find items mandated by the State and in the
future, the Board should find a different funding stream for the non-mandated services. Secondly,
I recommend the Board, in the future to find a way, when dealing with non-profits and groups with
Boards of Directors, to communicate directly to the Board of Directors of those entities. Somehow,
we have found ourselves in a situation where their staff has become a liaison between us and their
board. I think this board should speak directly to their boards. Other than that, I am tickled to have
been a part of the way this process works. I watch a lot of youtube and see boards come to fistfights
in the middle of meetings. I am proud that we can disagree and fight either side of the issue, then
civilly vote the issue, and be friends when we walk out the door. I’d like to thank Chairman Mallory
for his leadership in the past six years. I’d also like to thank the wisdom of some of the guys I’ve
sat with, Mr. Norman, Mr. Robertson, and Mr. Houpe. I am going to say something out loud. Gene,
when I first met you and sat on a board with you, I wasn’t sure I was going to like you. I have to
say after serving with you, you have become a good friend of mine. You are a hardworking
commissioner. I am proud to have sit here and been half of the silver bullet team. I appreciate you.
You have done a good job, along with Ken and Marvin, I’ve known them for years. I was a little
uncertain but the man works hard and really puts his heart into it. I appreciate you guys drafting
me back in like you did.”
Chairman Mallory said, “Thank you, Vice Chairman Bowles.”
Commissioner Robertson said, “I’d like to thank some of the unsung heroes. Our first
responders do a lot and also get a lot of recognition. Their job is difficult. Nobody calls 911 because
they are having a good day. Nobody calls 911 because they got a promotion or they won the lottery.
When they dial those three digits, for many people, they are in the middle of the worse day of their
life. When you think of our deputies, EMS personnel, and ECOM, those are the sung heroes. Most
people can appreciate it, and as a community, we do. In my parting comments, I’d like to throw
out some other examples. This is one department I’ve mentioned only mentioned a time or two.
So many people don’t understand what county government does. We have a Mapping Department
that creates maps from input and data from a huge number of people. They get data from th e Tax
Department, schools, Economic Development, and population information from Census. The
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Planning Department has to use and provide input to the Mapping Department. Mapping must also
interact with the Elections Board. We have many people who use the Mapping Department that
have their own data systems that are made for them. Mapping takes a hodgepodge of information
and get it so when people ask ‘what does it look like in our county’ they make it happen. They
never to come the Board complaining, but I know it is a tough job. Every time we have asked them
for a map that does a certain thing, they always come back with the job done. The department does
not have a lot of people and nobody ever mentions them, but they are a very important part of what
we do in the County. The next few departments I’d like to recognize are…Chairman Mallory,
Marvin Norman, and myself are Army Veterans, and I can’t believe in my parting comments I am
going to use a Navy saying, ‘A Captain cannot do much wrong so long he pulls his ship along side
another.’ It does not matter if your ship is big or small, fast or slow, when that battle begins get
your ship in the fight to do some good. If you lost your part of the battle, the fact is you got in
there, did something, and made a difference. When I look at what is happening with the pandemic
and how that effected the school system, and who responded to the call. Our libraries. We are
highly responsive to figuring out ways to make computers and internet access available to school
children. They did not stop services simply because there was a pandemic. Our Parks and
Recreation, when they could not host public events, they went to work. They painted buildings
that we were going to have to pay others to paint. They repaired trails. They did many maintenance
items instead of sitting back. They did what they could in their space to make a positive
difference.”
“In the last meeting, we had quite the spirited discussion about spending money for air
purification in our schools. They came to us and they asked for $1.1 million to fund the project.
The County’s senior staff has been routinely taking CARES Act Funding and using Facility
Services to retrofit HVAC systems. Starting with the Health Department and expanded it to
Planning, and Social Services. They have been taking advantage of money they had to
incrementally reduce the spread of COVID. They didn’t sit back. They got engaged. The Elections
staff. There were no CNN cameras in front of the Board of Elections eight days after the election
while people tried to figure out how many votes there were. The staff is highly competent and
professional. When I was Chairman of the Republican Party, I worked closely with Diane Hamby,
Democratic Party Chairman. We actually became friends. That, in part, goes to the professionalism
to our Elections staff. Nobody even raised the suggestion that anything was done wrong. That
speaks volume about the caliber of our staff and the community.”
“Now that I have a few grey hairs and they are longer than General Mallory would approve
of, but during these days of COVID, access to a barber is limited and desire to go sit in a barber
shop is less so. To be quite honest with you, there is no way I am letting Susan touch me with a
pair of scissors. Veteran’s Services is a small staff, but if you have ever had to fight the Department
of Defense bureaucracy to get your benefits, it is not that they don’t want to give you benefits, but
it is a bureaucratic organization and our Veteran’s Services under Brad Stroud and his team have
done a phenomenal job. I did not want today to be my last day without starting with some huge
thank you to the departments in this county that do incredible work every day and no o ne sings
their praises. I try to do it every chance I get. We have over 1,000 employees. There are no
organizations with 1,000 people and they are all perfect. I can tell you, county employees have the
servant’s heart.”
“A few specific words of advice the wise; I maybe would put these under warnings. First,
when I look at the people in the room, our future commissioners and some of the department heads.
There is one issue that is tremendously expensive not just to county government but to the nation.
There is a pandemic with COVID but we have a huge epidemic of drug abuse. It is expensive.
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When you look at the percentage of our EMS calls. The number of staffing we have to have and
the amount of money we spend to treat people who have called 911, either as a direct or indirect
result of drug abuse. When you look at how many traffic accidents, there is a component of drug
abuse. Assault, domestic violence, over and over again it comes back to drugs. If we did not have
a drug epidemic going on right now, would we need as many Sheriff Deputies? Would Statesville
Police Department need as many police officers? Look in the police blotter. Judge Crosswhite kept
an informal poll using tic-marks of how many cases came before him were drug related; over 80%.
We would need fewer prosecutors. We wouldn’t be talking about having to build a new courthouse.
We wouldn’t have needed to build a new jail. Most of the people in there are in for drug related
items. Our Department of Social Services deal with families who are broken and so many times
drugs lead back to it. Our school systems…so many students show up unprepared because they
have parents who have disconnected from their responsibility. They have left educating the child
totally up to the teachers because their life basically revolves a drug habit. If you don’t think that
costs our school systems money, it does. The sad part is, in nine months they have come up with
a vaccine for COVID. It is time for our country to get that serious about substance abuse because
we can’t afford it financially, morally, or ethically. It is one of the things breaking the backs of our
country. Right now, there is no cure for drug abuse. Some people are able to whip it and others
can’t. It is wicked and because of that, our jail has become the de-facto last resort detox center.
Our jail is not supposed to be a detox center. Our correctional officers are not supposed to be
detoxed technicians but they deal with those issues. We don’t realize this. When an inmate is in
our jail, they have free medical care, paid 100% by this county. When they come in and their liver
and kidneys are shot because of decades of drug abuse, we write the check and we take it out of
the 188,000 tax paying citizens. We take money from them every day to pay for free medical care,
that you don’t get, for folks that land in our jail. I can’t believe it, out of all the problems in the
world, our US Congress wants to legalize marijuana. That is just what we need, more impaired
people. That is an answer. We need more impaired people driving and taking gateway drugs. I
think when people look forward to what County Commissioners are going to be doing I think there
is no way to avoid the fact that at some point we are going to get drawn in the battle on drugs that
goes beyond what the Sheriff has to do.”
“Secondly, I talked about this at length at the last meeting but I will be much more
abbreviated this time. The Board of Commissioners gets many requests to spend money on many,
many good projects. If we gave the schools more money for staff they could do a better job of
educating kids, if we gave them more money for buildings, they would have a better environment
for kids to learn in. I can say that about the Library, Sheriff’s Office, and the Health Department.
I can say that about everybody. Everybody could use more money. We understand it. The
discretion when to spend and how much to spend lies on the shoulders of the five people sitting at
this table. I can tell you, there is a coward’s way to deal with it. If you don’t want to hurt anybody’s
feelings you say yes to everybody until the money is all gone and then you can tell them you can’t
fund their program, project, or building because we are broke. You have an excuse that is
politically palatable, but you have made a terrible decision. Because once you get to that point,
there is no money for the money that you really need to do. It is up to this board to say no to a lot
of programs and projects that are valid and would do a lot of good, but our job isn’t to spend money
on things that are good. We have to spend on things that are the absolute best of our policy. I say
this tongue and cheek but if you want to be Santa Clause, the Salvation Army is taking applications
right now. Our job is not to be Santa and hand out goodies. It is to preserve the finite amount of
money coming in. People should understand that when they criticize the Commissioners.”
“Two things that I see coming…when I was on the Centralina Council of Government they
started talking about there are a lot of elderly folks that don’t have family and who is going to help
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them get to the doctor and figure out what they need. I’ve said there is no way we should open that
Pandora’s box. There is no way we could do it well and be able to pay for it. People have to be
nice to their family members so they will help take care of you when they are older. We cannot
accept new responsibilities that are impossible for us to fund.”
“One last thing that has nothing to do with what has been done in the County, but we had
a group of people come and want us to express our support of the Second Amendment. I am not
nearly as worried about the Second Amendment right now as I am the first. It has gotten to where
people can’t say stuff. People are afraid to say who they like for President because they are afraid
they will get fired because they will get fired from their job. What has happened to our Country?
The Founding Fathers were brilliant when they said you need to guard these freedoms, they meant
it.”
“I’d like to wrap up by thanking my commissioners. Tommy, when I ran for commissioner
the first time, he had been on the Board and he agreed to have his picture taken with me. The thing
so monumental about that is that was 16 years and 65 pounds ago between the two of us. The one
thing I can say about being on the Board of Commissioners, the biggest challenge is maintaining
your weight. It is hard to do that. You go to work and go to meetings every night. Tommy always
brought a lot of wisdom and knowledge about Fire Services, which is a big part of what we fund.
If there is a commissioner trying to find that win-win where everybody can walk away happy, it is
Tommy Bowles. It is not about winning your side, it is figuring out a way where maybe everyone
can win. It can’t happen all the time and sometimes it seems it never can happen, but Tommy was
always a real champion for doing that. I am going to echo what you said about Gene. Gene digs
deep and does his homework. He really is trying to find all the facts and his experience in law
enforcement does contribute to the perspective this board has. Many times, opinions are swayed
by somebody telling you a little bit behind the scenes how it really is. Marvin, all his years of
institutional knowledge. I’ve known Marvin ever since I got involved in county politics. I always
joke with him that he is like a big grizzly bear. He doesn’t say much but when he crawls out of the
cave, watch out. When he says we are not doing that he means we are not doing that, and you don’t
want to be in his way if you say we should. On the flip side, if he says we ought to be doing
something, I think it carries a lot of weight. In his institutional knowledge of what right looks like
is super powerful. General Mallory is a visionary leader I met when I was a Captain in the Army.
He was a great leader in the Army. I found that if I ever disagreed with him on the Board that my
gut instinct after hating we disagreed was to kind of check my fire. Because if anybody was
probably not quite right it was going to be me. He reall y does look to get all of the facts. He looks
to make sure that everyone is heard. He asks good questions. More than just about anyone I have
ever met in my life can see a problem coming before other people recognize it and can see things
in a different way that is truly unique and remarkable. To my incoming board members, if you
want to work well with General Mallory shine your shoes and show up with a good haircut. That
will go a long way. To Melissa and Scottie, I think they bring a unique set of skills coming on the
Board. Zootastic is part of tourism. Tourism and agro-tourism can be a big industry. I am excited
about what he brings to that equation. Melissa works with one of the largest companies in the
United States, McDonalds. Iredell County has 1,000 employees, we cannot run the County the way
you run a small business. I really like the perspective she will be coming in with. When I came on
the Board, they told me ‘There is a woman named Susan Blumenstein and she is our Finance
Director, if she tells you that you can do something financially, then you can do it. If she tells you,
you can’t do something then you can’t.’ That was good advice then and as best I can tell it’s pretty
good advice for me to continue to follow after I leave this board. Last, I want to thank the voters.
You elected me several times and thank you to the Board for allowing me to come back. One of
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the greatest honors and privileges is being able to serve the almost 200,000 voters of Iredell
County. Thank you for letting me be here. I appreciate it.”
Chairman Mallory presented Vice Chairman Bowles and Commissioner Robertson with
plaques recognizing each of them for their years of service to the County and its citizens.
MOTION by Vice Chairman Bowles to adjourn at 10:43AM.
VOTING: Ayes – 5; Nays – 0
IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, December
7, 2020 at 7:00 PM, in the Commissioners’ Meeting Room of the Iredell County Government
Center, 200 South Center Street, Statesville, NC.
Board Members Present
Chairman James Mallory
Vice Chairman Thomas Bowles
Gene Houpe
Ken Robertson
Board Members Participating Remotely
Marvin Norman
Staff present: County Manager Beth Jones, County Attorney Lisa Valdez, Deputy County
Manager Susan Robertson, Assistant County Manager Joe Pierce, and Finance Director Debra
Cheek.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Mallory.
INVOCATION by Chairman Mallory.
Chairman Mallory turned the meeting over to County Manager Beth Jones for the election
of Chairman of the Board for 2020/2022.
ELECTION OF CHAIRMAN: County Manager Beth Jones stated, in accordance with
the Board’s Rules of Procedure, it is required to elect a Chairman and Vice Chair, on the first
Monday in December.
Jones opened the floor for nominations for Chairman.
MOTION by Commissioner Houpe to nominate James Mallory.
There were no other nominations.
Jones closed the floor to nominations and asked for a vote.
VOTING: Ayes – 5; Nays – 0
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Jones turned the meeting over to Chairman James Mallory.
ELECTION OF VICE CHAIR: Chairman Mallory opened the floor to nominations for
Vice Chair.
MOTION by Commissioner Norman to nominate Melissa Neader.
There were no other nominations.
VOTING: Ayes – 5; Nays – 0
APPOINTMENT OF COUNTY ATTORNEY: Chairman Mallory opened the floor for
appointments.
MOTION by Commissioner Houpe to appoint Lisa Valdez as the County Attorney.
VOTING: Ayes – 5; Nays – 0
Chairman Mallory expressed appreciation to County Attorney Lisa Valdez for her hard
work and dedication to county related matters.
APPOINTMENT OF CLERK TO THE BOARD: Chairman Mallory opened the floor
for appointments.
MOTION by Vice Chair Melissa Neader to appoint Amy Anderson as the Clerk to the
Board.
VOTING: Ayes – 5; Nays – 0
ADJOURNMENT
MOTION by Commissioner Brown to adjourn at 11:17AM. The next regular meeting will
be December 15, 2020, 5:00 PM, in the Commissioners’ Meeting Room, Government Center, 200
South Center Street, Statesville, NC.
VOTING: Ayes – 5; Nays – 0
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Date Approved Amy B. Anderson, Clerk