Beaufort County Government's General Meeting Agenda: Monday, December 12, 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 Monday, December 12, 2011. This is the sixth general meeting post-budget, when the Beaufort County Commissioners, by a vote of 5 to 2, raised your property taxes by 6%.

    The most important issue on the agenda for this general meeting may well be the election of a chairman. An advance warning proffered: Commissioner Hood Richardson and Commissioner Stan Deatherage will seek, once again, to end the "King Chairman" position. I do not even know how it will all shake out; however, I vote for change - "hope and change." Yeah, I like the way that sounds - hope / change.

   In that same vein, yet on another level: "How's that all working out for ya?"

 Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners General Meeting Agenda
         Monday, December 12, 2011.
   Beaufort County Administrative Building, Commissioners’ Meeting Room
       121 West Third Street, Washington, North Carolina

5:00 p.m. Call to Order by Chairman Langley
            Invocation & Pledge of Allegiance
            Consideration of Consent Agenda
            Election of Chairman and Vice Chairman

5:10 p.m. Public Comments

5:30 p.m. Commissioner Ed Booth
             Recognition of Retiring Chief Deputy

5:50 p.m. Laurie Modlin, Finance Officer, Beaufort County Schools
                   Dr. Don Phipps, Superintendent, Beaufort County Schools
             Request First Drawdown on Capital Outlay Funds

6:00 p.m. Bobby Parker, Tax Assessor/Collector
            Current Tax Collections

6:05 p.m. Tom & Nancy O’Brien
             Leaf and Limb Debris Removal

6:15 p.m. Break

6:30 p.m. Commissioner Hood Richardson
             Health Department Budget Revisions from Last Month with Answers to Questions
             Sheriff Department JAG Grant and Current List of Rifles
             Status of Homeland Security Training in Beaufort County (Requests to Sheriff’s Department,                   Emergency Management and Any Other Known Agencies of County Government Involved)

7:00 p.m. Kit Campbell, Chief Deputy
             Sheriff Request Permission to Purchase Two Vehicles Not Budgeted
             Proposal for Sheriff Department Break Room Project

7:10 p.m. Larry Hodges
             Pantego Wind Farm

7:20 p.m. April Montgomery, Invenergy
             Pantego Wind Farm

7:30 p.m. Randell Woodruff, County Manager
                   Jim Chrisman, County Finance Officer
            Update on NCDOT Agreement to Run Sewer to Chocowinity Industrial Park

7:45 p.m. Tom Thompson, Economic Development Director
             Update on Repair to the Quick Start II Building

8:00 p.m. County Manager's Report