HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93011_1300IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR MINUTES
SEPTEMBER 19, 2006
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular Session on Tuesday,
September 19, 2006, at 7:00 P.M., in the Iredell County Government Center (Commissioners' Meeting
Room), 200 South Center Street, Statesville, NC.
Present were:
Chairman Sara Haire Tice
Vice Chairman Godfrey Williams
Steve Johnson
Marvin Norman
Ken Robertson
Staff resent County Manager Joel Mashburn, County Attorney Bill Pope, Deputy County
Manager Susan Blumenstein, Assistant County Manager Tracy Jackson, and Clerk to the Board
Jean Moore,
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Tice
INVOCATION by Commissioner Johnson
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ADJUSTMENTS OF THE AGENDA: OTIO by Chairman Tice to approve the following
agenda adjustment:
Addition: ⢠Request for Susan Blumenstein to be Authorized to Proceed with a $143,500 Payment
to the Civil Air Patrol Upon Submission of the Settlement Statement for an Aircraft
Hangar Purchase
VOTING: Ayes â 5; Nays â 0.
APPOINTMENTS BEFORE THE BOARD
Mr. Ed Rush, President of Iredell Memorial Hospital, Provides Information Regarding a
Proposed North Carolina Medical Care Commission $30 Million Bond Issue: Mr. Rush said the
hospital proposed to issue $30 million in revenue bonds with assistance from the NC Medical Care
Commission. He said the funding would reimburse the hospital $10 million for the completed
emergency center renovations and the Nunnery Tower expansion expected to be finished in January of
2007. Rush said when completed, the new fifth floor would contain modem private rooms to replace
31 semi -private acute beds built in the 1950s. Rush said the funding would also assist in (I) the
expansion of the central sterile supply and surgery support areas (2) purchase a second CT scanner
(certificate of need already approved) (3) purchase cardiac cath equipment as well as a dedicated
angiography electrophysiology lab (certificate of need already approved) and (4) purchase other
necessary equipment. He said approximately $3 million would be used to pay off earlier borrowing
from the medical care commission.
Accompanying Mr. Rush was Attorney Allen Robertson (taw firm of Robinson Bradshaw &
Hinson). Rush said the attorney had written a letter stating, "The County will not be required to
approve, or consent to the terms of, the bonds issued by the Commission, and the County will not be
obligated to pay the bonds if the Corporation defaults." Mr. Rush said the bond update was being
provided as a courtesy and for informational purposes.
Mr. David Swann, Area Director/CEO of Crossroads Behavioral Healthcare, Provides a
Fiscal Year 2005-06 Report: Mr. Swann said state law required that an annual report be given to the
board(s) of commissioners. He said "major" legislation was adopted last year and much of it was a re-
fit of the 2001 law that "strengthened" the local managing entity's scope of work along with providing
$101 million in new mental health funds. Mr. Swann then shared statistical information, some of
which is as follows:
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