HARNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Courtroom 6, Harnett County Courthouse
301 West Cornelius Harnett Boulevard
Lillington, North Carolina
Results of Board Meeting
Regular Meeting
February 6, 2006 9:00 a.m.
- Order of Business –
1. Call to order – Chairman Teddy J. Byrd
2. Pledge of Allegiance and Invocation – Commissioner Walt Titchener
3. Consider additions and deletions to the published agenda
- add Courthouse security plan to regular agenda
4. Consent Agenda: All items on the consent agenda were approved.
A. Minutes
B. Budget amendments
C. Tax refunds and releases
D. Resolutions to add roads to state system
E. Request for authorization to build corporate jet hangar
F. Contract to audit County accounts
G. Landscape services for new Agriculture Center
H. Public school facility needs survey
I. Additional surveying services for Detention Center project
J. Work authorization for airport approach clearing and powerline relocation
K. Work authorization for relocation assistance for tenants at airport
L. Work authorization for airport lighting rehabilitation
M. Airport Transportation Plan (TIP) for 2007-2011
N. Lease of farmland at Governmental Complex
O. Amendment to current contract for Elderly Nutrition Program meals
P. Resolution delegating authority to declare property surplus
Q. State Criminal Alien Assistance Program for Sheriff’s Dept.
R. Report of unpaid 2005 real estate taxes
5. Period of up to 30 minutes for informal comments allowing 3 minutes for each presentation
Carnell Robinson presented an overview of a proposed model gang prevention and
protection program; and asked the Board to delay consideration of sale of Arrowhead
Road property until the next Board of Commissioners meeting.
6. Appointments
Board of Equalization and Review – Dennis Boyette, Jerry Bullock, Thomas Moore,
Carnell Robinson, and Darrell Smith
Public Facilities Corporation Board of Directors – Jesse Alphin, Billy G. Pope, and
Tony Wilder
Transportation Advisory Board – May Marshbanks, Terri Strickland, Jerry
Blanchard, Phyllis Clayton, Betty Lou Darroch, Connie Greene, Alice Powell, Gary
Pope, Melanie Collins, John Finger, Jennifer Walker, Suzanne Parker, Mary Jane
Sauls, Addie McLean, C. Truett Underhill, William A. (Tony) Wilder, Beatrice Hill,
Eric Truesdale, and John L. Rouse, Jr.
Juvenile Crime Prevention Council – Lynn Lambert
Coats Planning Board – Max Matthews, Jr. and Charles T. Byrd
7. Juvenile Crime Prevention Council (JCPC) request for matching grant funds – Jane Schumann,
Chairman
Board authorized submission of grant application for proposed program regarding
gang activity prevention and intervention.
8. Authorization to hire Assistant Agriculture Agent – Jennifer Walker, Director, Cooperative Ext.
Board approved funding 60% of the salary.
9. Discussion of bids and contract award for McKoy Town Road waterline extension – Steve Ward,
Assistant Director, Public Utilities
Contract awarded to Temple Grading and Construction, Lillington, NC
10. Report of sealed bids for sale of former Northern Harnett Rescue Tract – Jennifer Slusser, Staff
Attorney
Two bids were received. Board will consider at a future meeting.
11. Resolution authorizing sale of real property located on Arrowhead Road in Averasboro
Township – Dwight W. Snow, County Attorney
Board will consider at next Board meeting.
-- Board appropriated $310,000.00 for Courthouse security using a plan deemed most
acceptable by the Sheriff and Resident Superior Court Judge that would provide
access to the building from both the front and back entrances.
12. County Manager’s Report – Neil Emory, County Manager
Board authorized lighting of the baseball field at Harnett Central High School.
Board authorized a proposed user agreement to be drafted regarding the future
Campbell University Convocation Center.
Board authorized removal of a wall in the County’s facility that houses Johnston
County Industries.
13. Closed Session
Closed session not needed.
14. New Business
15. Adjournment
Meeting recessed to reconvene at the County Administration Building for a review of
proposed utility merger agreement with the Town of Erwin.