Beaufort County Government's General Meeting Agenda: Monday, July 5, 2011. | Eastern North Carolina 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 Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Tuesday, July 5, 2011. This is the first general meeting post budget, where the county commissioners, by a vote of 5 to 2, raised your property taxes by 6%.

    This will be a light meeting, but the word is out that we may pick a new county manager, or at least extend a contract. Also IK will put forth a resolution for my fellow county commissioners to pass to urge our local representatives to the NC General Assembly to override Governor Beverly Perdue's veto of the Photo ID provision for the public to vote in elections. Below, after the schedule of the light agenda, is the aforementioned resolution.

 Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners General Meeting Agenda
         Tuesday, July 9, 2011
   Beaufort County Administrative Building, Commissioners’ Meeting Room
       121 West Third Street, Washington, North Carolina

5:00 PM: Call to Order by Chairman Langley
       Invocation & Pledge of Allegiance
       Consideration of Consent Agenda

5:10 PM: Public Comments

5:30 PM: Bobby Parker, Tax Administator
        Current Tax Collections

5:40 PM: Commissioner Hood Richardson
        Beaufort County Hospital Update
        Discussion of the Creation of Committee Systems
        Discussion of Creation of a Register of Deeds and Tax Office I.T. Committee

5:50 PM: Commissioner Stan Deatherage
        Resolution in Support of the General Assembly Overriding the Governor’s Veto on Photo ID for Voting           See below for a copy of the resolution

6:00 PM: Commissioner Jim Chrisman, Interim County Manager
        Work First Program Designation

6:15 PM: Update on County Manager Search

6:25 County Manager Report’s

6:35 PM: Closed Session – Economic Development


Resolution to Request that our Representatives to the North Carolina General Assembly Override the Governor's Veto

    Whereas, The right to vote in the United States, and the State of North Carolina is a right guaranteed to all citizens, by constitutional provision, to provide for the continued, or transfer of power in this Democratic Republic, and,

    Whereas, that the sanctity and power of one Man's vote, as a law abiding citizen, should not ever be cancelled by the illicit power of someone voting illegally, and,

    Whereas, it is a now fact that there is a vast community of illegal immigrants, whom reside in North Carolina by using fraudulent paperwork, and do very much benefit by the wrong-headed policies of some unpatriotic politicians, and,

    Whereas, both houses of the North Carolina General Assembly attempted to make law in Senate Bill 352, and House Bill 351, which stipulates that all prospective voters in all North Carolina elections first provide a photo identification card to verify their identity, and,

    Whereas, those aforementioned bills passed to effect said efficiencies in voting legal citizens do hereby provide for a for a variety of identification cards, providing they have a photo and are real, and,

    Whereas, Governor Beverly Perdue vetoed both bills (SB 352, HB 351) originating in the North Carolina General Assembly, therefore,

    Let it be resolved, that the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners do hereby resolve that the North Carolina House of Representatives, and the North Carolina Senate must override the veto of Governor Beverly Perdue so that elections in North Carolina must be honest, legal and fair so that we may preserve the Republic, and continue it for future generations of freedom loving Americans.

    Written by Beaufort County Commissioner Stan Deatherage and submitted to the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners, North Carolina, for passage on July 5, 2011. Once passed, this resolution will be sent to North Carolina House Representative Bill Cook, North Carolina Senator Stan White, Governor Beverly Perdue, and the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners for distribution.