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Commissioner Boone said he thought they should wait until the
next meeting to vote on the letter of intent. He could vote for
the rest of the motion, but not on the letter of intent.
Commissioner Madison said he would divide it into two motions,
then. He then withdrew his previous motion and made the following:
MOTION from Commissioner Madison to give permission to the
Iredell-Statesville Schools to use the $364,945.28 which is in the
current budget.
VOTING: Ayes - 5; Nays - 0.
MOTION from Commissioner Madison to give a letter of intent to
fund Iredell-Statesville Capital Improvements in the amount of
$1,136,000 in the 93-94 budget.
Commissioner Stewart inquired if this was for the next meeting
or this meeting. Commissioner Madison said he saw no reason it
could not be dealt with at this meeting if the board is agreeable.
Commissioner Boone said there was a series of budget hearings
set up to discuss and deliberate the budget, and at this time the
budget has not been discussed and deliberated, and he is
uncomfortable doing anything else.
Commissioner Hamby said the schools are on a short time frame
in the summer to get these projects done. As a contractor, she
would not commit to do a project, knowing they did not have the
funding, and she doubted other contractors would.
Commissioner Stewart said the time frame has not shrunk. She
felt that since the budget has not been deliberated, she was
uncomfortable to put a stamp of approval on something that has not
been discussed with the county board of commissioners.
Commissioner Madison said he did not think the board was
putting a stamp of approval of anything that has not been brought
to the commissioners to be discussed or deliberated, but were
giving a letter of intent saying that the county commissioners
would not cut back past what was spent last year on capital
improvements. This is fixing up the school buildings, which do
have some things that need to be addressed. They can do it while
the kids are not in school, or they can interrupt classes to do the
work next September or October, he said.
Chairman Haire asked Mrs. Blumenstein to clarify where this
$1.5 million was coming from. Mrs. Blumenstein said that of the
1/2$ sales tax (1983) that comes to the county, 30% goes to
schools' capital. Of the 1/2 percent sales tax (1986), 60$ of this
amount goes to schools. There is no choice, Mrs. Blumenstein said,
but to budget these amounts for the schools. The tax for next year
is estimated for $1,964,380 for 93-94. This amount is for the
Iredell-Statesville Schools and is apportioned, based on ADM, Mrs.
Blumenstein said.
Chairman Haire inquired if this request was for any new
money. Mrs. Blumenstein said it is a new budget year, and the
county is reappropriating the funds that are appropriated every
year for the school system. Chairman Haire said the county
commissioners really had no control over this money, did they, that
it actually goes to the schools from the state sales taxes. Mrs.
Blumenstein said that is correct.
Mrs. Blumenstein said this is the last year for the 1983 1/2
percent sales tax, in answer to a question from Commissioner
Stewart. The 1986 1/2 percent sales tax will go through 1997.
Commissioner Boone said he understood the funds go to school
capital budgeting, but did not the county commissioners have the
discretion to approve which projects for which it would be spent.
He reviewed the projects for which the $1.5 million would be spent,