HARNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

County Administration Building

102 East Front Street

Lillington, North Carolina

Regular Meeting

RESULTS OF BOARD MEETING

June 6, 20119:00 a.m.

- Order of Business -

  1. Call to order – Chairman Timothy B. McNeill
  1. Pledge of Allegiance and Invocation – Commissioner Dan Andrews
  1. Consider additions and deletions to the published agenda – APPROVED AS AMENDED

-  Chairman McNeill requested the addition of Public Utilities’ requests for approval of a final adjusting change order for Ormond Utilities, LLC, in the amount of $249.

-  Commissioner House requested the removal from the consent agenda for discussion purposes Public Utilities’ request to enter into a grant agreement with the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund in the amount of $300,000 to help fund the Erwin Wastewater Project.

  1. Consent Agenda – All items on the consent agenda were approved

A.  Minutes: - May 16, 2011 Regular Meeting Minutes

- May 24, 2011 Special Session Minutes

  1. Budget Amendments
  2. Tax refunds, rebates and releases
  3. Public Utilities requested approval to enter into a grant agreement with the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund. The grant totals $300,000 and will be used to help fund the Erwin Wastewater Project.
  4. Tax Administrator requests approval of the Interlocal Cooperative Agreement for the Collection of Taxes between Harnett County and the City of Dunn.
  5. Emergency Services, on behalf of the Coats-Grove Fire & Rescue, Inc Board of Directors, requests approval to change one of the Local Firemen’s Relief Fund Trustees removing Graymon Powell (deceased) and replace him with Todd Pope.
  6. Health Director requests permission to submit a letter of intent to apply for the Avon Foundation Breast Health Outreach Program. No matching funds for this one year only grant.
  7. Health Director requests permission to apply for the NC Diabetes Education Recognition Program which assists local health departments to help implement a diabetes self-management program that is accredited by the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
  8. Health Director requests permission to establish Medical Nutrition Therapy fees for registered dietitian’s services.
  9. Health Director requests permission to establish fees for Pregnancy Medical Home Global Billing: Medicaid is changing the way health departments bill for prenatal patients.
  10. Social Service’s Director requests approval for participation in the Job Boost II Program through Department of Health and Human Services. This program is grant funded and will assist in placing eligible participants in jobs through helping to subsidize the job placement for a maximum of twenty weeks. This subsidy will be in the amount of 75% of the hourly rate of pay up to a maximum of $10.00 per hour.
  11. Staff Attorney, on behalf of Emergency Services, requests approval of Resolution – Designation of Applicant’s Agent – N.C. Division of Emergency Management

5. Period of up to 30 minutes for informal comments allowing 3 minutes for each

Presentation

-  Walt Stilwell spoke on behalf of the North Harnett Seniors Club and requested funding for senior centers.

-  Anne Howard of Lillington and a member of the Prime Time Club urged commissioners to help the senior centers in any way they deemed possible.

-  William P. “Abe” Elmore of Dunn, President of Triangle South Enterprise, requested up to $30,000 funding for Triangle South Enterprise for the FY 2011-2012 for the purpose of further renovations and general repairs to the center.

-  Mr. Elmore, on behalf of Harnett Regional Theatre, requested county funding for the theatre.

-  Mr. Elmore also said he has reviewed the Davenport Report on the county website and it disturbs him greatly saying people cannot stand any more taxes.

-  Rebecca McLean, Director for Coats Senior Center, asked commissioners to continue to fund the Coats Senior Center. .

-  Keith Goretzka, President of Habitat for Humanity of Harnett County, asked that they be remembered during the budget process.

6.  Appointments

CITY OF DUNN – BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT

Gary Beasley of 567 Ammons Road in Dunn was appointed to serve on this board.

HISTORIC PROPERTIES COMMISSION

Donna Johnson and Gary Pierce were reappointed to serve on this commission.

Suzanne Prince was appointed to serve as a member on this commission.

Commissioners also approved a letter to be mailed out to all churches within the county, as well as Campbell University and CCCC, attempting to find citizens willing and able to serve on the Adult Care Home Community Advisory Committee, Harnett Nursing Home Community Advisory Committee, and Mid-Carolina Aging Advisory Committee.

7.  Approve FY 2011/2012 Property and Liability Insurance Carrier - Berkley Mid Atlantic was approved as the FY 2011/2012 Property and Liability Insurance Carrier

8.  Presentation of Proposed FY 2011/2012 Budget, Scott T. Sauer, County Manager

Mr. Tom Frye, Interim Superintendent of Harnett County School, also gave an overview of school needs and explained impacts of the state budget cuts.

9.  County Manager’s Report – Scott T. Sauer, County Manager

-  Landfill Billing Report April 2011

-  Veteran Affairs Activities Report April 2011

10.  Closed session - Vice Chairman Hill moved that the Board go into closed session to discuss certain personnel matters. This motion is made pursuant to N.C. General Statute Section 143-318.11(a)(6).

11.  New Business - Commissioner Burgin asked that the county manager’s performance review be scheduled following completion of the budget process. He also requested the county manager to schedule performance reviews with all department heads upon budget completion.

Commissioner House questioned why the proposed budget did not include salaries. Vice Chairman Hill asked to know the names of employees slated to be cut in the proposed budget.

Commissioner Burgin requested a list of actual expenditures for FY 2009/2010 and FY 2010/2011.

12.  Adjourn – 10:40 am