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850,000 Blanket
$100,000 Finance Director
$50,000 Tax Collector
$25,000 Register of Deeds
$10,000 Sheriff
VOTING: Ayes - 5; Nays - 0.
PLANNING BOARD - APPOINTMENT: MOTION from Commissioner Campbell to appoint
Richard S. Feimster, Route 8, Box 191, Statesville, NC 28677, to the Iredell
County Planning, Board. Term begins immediately and expires on July 1, 1989. Mr.
Feimster replaces William M. Pressly, who retired from the board.
VOTING: Ayes - 5; Nays - 0.
ROAD NAMING PROJECT: A report to the board was made by the county manager,
Wayne Deal, on the status of the requested name change of Mayhew Road, S. R. 1100,
fomerly known as Brawley School Road.
Mr. Deal advised the board that the tax office had the petition at the present
time, checking it in the same manner as a petition is validated for a tax district.
If it is found that there is a 51% majority of the resident/landowners petitioning
for the road name to be changed back to Brawley School Road, the name will be
changed.
NO BOARD ACTION.
DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT: County Finance Officer F. William Furches, Jr.
presented the board with bids for data processing enuinment. Only one bid was
received, Mr. Furches said, which was from Hewlett-Packard of Greensboro, in the
amount of 835,057.60. Thirty-six thousand dollars was budgeted for the upgrading
for the county's computer equipment.
MOTION from Chairman Troutman to accept the bid from Hewlett-Packard, Greens-
boro, NC, in the amount of $35,057.60. VOTING: Ayes - 5; Nays - 0.
UTILITY COMPANIES' LEGAL SUIT - SETTLEMENT: County Attorney Robert N. Randall
brought the board up to date on the legal suit by theutility companies involving
property values. Mr. Randall has negotiated a settlement with the utility companies
involving, a reduction in their 1983 taxes due. Five utility companies, Crescent
Electric Membership Corporation, Duke Power Cumnany, Inc., Public Service Company
of North Carolina, Inc., Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company, Inc., and
Transcontinental Pas Pipeline Company, Inc., are involved in the suit, and all have
agreed to a 29% reduction in the total amount of their suit against Iredell County.
The original suit was 51.24% dexrease, amounting of $251,899.73. The compromise
total reduction is 29% or a reduction of $142,566.22 in actual taxes due Iredell
County in 1983.
Robert m. Randall, County Attorney, recommended this settlement to the board.
MOTION from 1lommissioner Campbell to accept the county attorney's recommendation
for the compromise tax reduction of $142,566.22.
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VOTING Ayes - 5; Nays - 0.