Beaufort County's Government's General Meeting Agenda: Tuesday, December 9, 2009 | Eastern NC Now

The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners Will Meet to Discuss the County's Business

    The Government of Beaufort County meets every month for at least one General Meeting to discuss and act on the county's business. Beaufort County employs the County Manager Form of Government, which stipulates that the board of county commissioners allow the county manager to set the agenda, and bring issues before them.

    The high point of this meeting could possibly be the election of the board's chairman, and to a much lesser extent, the election of the board's vice chairman. A majority of the county commissioners will decide which commissioner will run all of the meetings for the next 12 months, and who represent the board by signature, and in some limited capacity at some meetings, where this may seem to matter.     Some people put a large state in which county commissioner will be chairman, however that significance has waned over the last decade once the position of chairman has been better explained.

    I shall endeavor to reiterate, as is my practice, that these General Meetings are the most important component in the ongoing governing of Beaufort County. They are administered in the full purview of the public, as dictated by North Carolina's Open Meetings Law, and we are wise to video-graph these meetings as public record. You are invited to attend these meetings as your time and our space constraints permit. You are always welcome to watch the broadcast of these meeting on all cable television public access channels, or borrow the DVD from any local library.

    Without further discussion, we provide the Agenda here below:

 Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners General Meeting Agenda
         Tuesday, December 9, 2009
   Beaufort County Administrative Building, Commissioners’ Meeting Room
       121 West Third Street, Washington, North Carolina

5:00 PM: Call To Order
    Consideration of Consent Agenda

5:05 PM: Public Comments

5:10 PM: Greg Adams, Thompson, Price, Scott, Adams & Co.,
    Audit Report

5:25 PM: Catherine Glover, Executive Director
    Washington / Beaufort County Chamber of Commerce's "Buy Local" Campaign

5:35 PM: Beaufort County Schools Presentation
    Grant Programs
    Pathways / Ed Tech Center Teaching American History

6:00 PM: Tom Thompson, Economic Development Director
    Coastal Counties Homeowners' Insurance Update
    Annual Economic Development Report

6:10 PM: Commissioner Al Klemm
    Request Update on Status of North Carolina's Northeast Commission Presentation at County
    Commissioners' Meeting

6:20 PM: Break

7:00 PM: Commissioner Stan Deatherage
    Resolution in Opposition of Admission of Undocumented Immigrants to Community Colleges
    Public Hearing Information Regarding Undocumented Immigrants Admissission to NC Community
    Colleges

7:10 PM: Commissioner Hood Richardson
    Discussion of Spanish Language Removal from State Website and School System Website / Printed
    Materials
    Discussion on School Ethnicity and Race Identification Form

7:25 PM: Billy Mayo, County Attorney
    Request Approval on Tax Foreclosure Parcels by Upset Bid

8:00 PM: County Manager's Reports