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WHEREAS, Iredell County would be deprived, not only of its present ordinance,
but of the authority to carry out timely and adequate inspections, tests and enforce-
ment, with revocation of permits if necessary, and
WHEREAS, this authority constitutes the basis for the excellence of the county's
milk program, and
WHEREAS, the Iredell County Board of Health would be prohibited from adopting
rules concerning other food products that are more stringent than those snDlying
throughout the state, even if such rules were necessary to protect the public's
health in Iredell County, and '
WHEREAS, the health of the citizens of Iredell County could be greatly endanger-
ed by the risks of drinking potentially outdated, adulterated or contiminated milk
that would result from a lack of local enforcement authority,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Iredell County Board of Health does hereby
go on record opposing an y and all legislative efforts to weaken in any way or to
any degree the authoirty that Local Health Departments now have to regulate and
survey the quality of retail milk products at the local level, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Iredell County Board of Health does hereby
go on record supporting the efforts of Dr. Robert M. Hall, M.C. Wake County Health
Director; Mr. Harry Privette, Chairman, Wake County Board of Health;
Mr. Keith A. Glover, Member, Interstate Milk Shipper's Commission; the North Carolina
Association of Local Health Directors; and the North Carolina Association of
Sanitarian Supervisors; to insure that language in the proposed recodification of
North Carolina Public Health Laws (House Bill 318) be written in such a way that
continues the delegated authority of Local HealthDepartments to regulate the safety
of milk supplies at the local level, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be furnished to the
Delegation of North Carolina General Assembly.
I LL..C.OUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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Chairman
Adopted 19 April 1983.
EXECUTIVE SESSION: MOTION from Chairman Troutman to adjourn to Executive
Session for the purpose of discussing personnel problems. VOTING: Ayes - 5; Noes -
0.
MOTION from Commissioner Mills to adjourn from Executive Session. VOTING:
Ayes - 5; Noes - 0.
ADJOURN: hairman Troutman adjourned the meeting at 10:30 p.m. Next meeting:
May 3, 1983, 7:30 g t
y p.m. , Agricultural Ce t £erence Roorgs--y and 2.
C�arman
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Approved May 3, 1983 Recorded at Register of Deeds Office, Book 26 pp.359-373.
IREDELL COUNTY, BOARD OF C0MMISSIONERS
MINUTES
MAY 3, 1983
The Iredell Countv Board of Commissioners met in Regular Session on Tuesday
evening, May 3, 1083, 7:30, Agricultural Center Conference Rooms 1 and 2. Present
for the meeting, were:
Joe H. Troutman, Chairman (arriving, at 7:55 P.m.)
Frances L. Murdock, Vice Chairman
B. W. Campbell ,
William A. Tills
Samuel L. Ostwalt